Yelena Struchayeva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yelena Struchayeva

Olympic trap shooter

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1965

Place of Birth: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Profession: sport shooter

Nationality: Kazakhstan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Yelena Struchayeva (Kazakh: ????? ?????????; born January 5, 1965 in Almaty) 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 Gudzineviciute.