Yelena Struchayeva

Who is Yelena Struchayeva?

Yelena Struchayeva is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. 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. 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. 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.