Yelena Struchayeva

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Yelena Struchayeva (Template:Lang-kk; born January 5, 1965 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani sport shooter.<ref>Template:Cite sports-reference</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</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>Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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