Yelena Struchayeva

Yelena Struchayeva
Personal information
Nationality	Kazakhstan
Born	5 January 1965 (age 59); Almaty, Kazakh SSR
Height	1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event	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[edit]

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elena Struchaeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
^ "Chinese shooters continue gold spree with record breaking shows". Xinhua News Agency. China Daily. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
^ "Women's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
^ "Women's Trap Final". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
^ "American Cogdell earns a bronze". The Associated Press. NBC Olympics. 10 August 2008. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

External links[edit]

NBC 2008 Olympics profile

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[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elena Struchaeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. 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. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

[4] "Women's Trap Final". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

[5] "American Cogdell earns a bronze". The Associated Press. NBC Olympics. 10 August 2008. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

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