Yelena Struchayeva
Kazakhstani sport shooter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yelena Struchayeva (Kazakh: Елена Васильевна Стручаева; born January 5, 1965, in Alma-Ata) 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]
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality |  Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 January 1965 | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Trap | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||
