 At the European Championships in Moscow she reached the quarter-finals before being eliminated 9–15 by Lyubov Shutova.At the World Championships in Lisbon she made it to the semi-finals, where she was defeated 6–15 by Germany's Imke Duplitzer and came away with a bronze medal.She would later call it her fondest victory, because she was very young at the time and was there without her coach, with only her sabre colleagues as companions.