Yelena Struchayeva

Yelena Struchayeva
Personal information
Nationality  Kazakhstan
Born (1965-01-05) 5 January 1965
Almaty, Kazakh SSR
Height 1.56 m (5 ft 1 12 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap

Yelena Struchayeva (Kazakh: Елена Стручаева; born January 5, 1965 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter.[1] Struchaeva qualified for the women's trap as a 43-year-old at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the gold medal from the 2007 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City, Kuwait.[2] She scored a total of 69 points after firing three sets of 25 targets and receiving six misses in the qualifying round of the competition.[3] She added seventeen more shots to obtain a total of 86 points in the final, but missed out of the bronze medal triumph to United States' Corey Cogdell in a four-person shoot-off. In the end, Struchaeva finished the event in sixth place, after losing out in a fifth-place match against Lithuania's Daina Gudzinevičiūtė.[4][5]

References

  1. "Elena Struchaeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  2. "Chinese shooters continue gold spree with record breaking shows". Xinhua News Agency (China Daily). 7 December 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  3. "Women's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  4. "Women's Trap Final". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  5. "American Cogdell earns a bronze". The Associated Press. NBC Olympics. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

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