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'''Yelena Struchayeva''' ({{lang-kk|Елена Стручаева}}; born January 5, 1965 in [[Almaty]]) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter.<ref>{{cite sports-reference|Elena Struchaeva|http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/yelena-struchayeva-1.html|30 December 2012}}</ref> Struchaeva qualified for the [[Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's trap|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]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Chinese shooters continue gold spree with record breaking shows|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2007-12/07/content_6306019.htm|work=Xinhua News Agency|publisher=China Daily|date=7 December 2007|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's Trap Qualification|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHW401901/index.html|publisher=[[NBC Olympics]]|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's Trap Final|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHW401101/index.html|publisher=[[NBC Olympics]]|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=American Cogdell earns a bronze|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/news/newsid=192631.html#american+cogdell+earns+bronze|work=The Associated Press|publisher=[[NBC Olympics]]|date=10 August 2008|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=62971/bio/index.html NBC Olympics Profile]

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