Elena Tkach

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Elena Tkach
Personal information
Full nameYelena Anatolyevna Tkach
Nationality 
Trap, double trap
ClubDynamo Voronezh[1]
Coached byMaxim Kosarev[1]
Medal record
Women's shooting
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2015 Baku Mixed Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku Trap
World Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
Silver medal – second place 1991 Perth Double trap
Representing  Russia
ISSF World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Lahti Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Belgrade Trap
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Lima Trap

Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach (also Elena Tkach,

Lahti, Finland, accumulating a score of 93 targets.[3][4] Tkach is also a member of the shooting team for Dynamo Voronezh, and is coached and trained by her teammate and two-time Olympian Maxim Kosarev.[1]

Tkach made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed only in two shooting events. She scored a total of 81 clay pigeons 65 in the preliminary rounds and 16 in the final) in the women's trap by five points behind German shooter and Olympic silver medalist Susanne Kiermayer, finishing only in sixth place.[5] The following day, Tkach placed sixteenth in the qualifying rounds of the women's double trap by three points behind Canada's Susan Nattrass, accumulating a score of 90 targets.[3][6]

Twelve years after competing in her last Olympics, Tkach qualified for her second Russian team, as a 42-year-old, at the

Belgrade, Serbia.[3] Tkach had finished on exactly the same score of 70 targets as Finland's Satu Mäkelä-Nummela (defending Olympic champion) and Spain's Fátima Gálvez in the qualifying rounds of the women's trap, but narrowly lost the three-person shoot-off by half the score behind winner Gálvez, for a bonus of six points.[7]

References

  1. ^
    London 2012. Archived from the original
    on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elena Tkach". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Elena Tkach". ISSF. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Engleder wins World Cup gold medal in 50m rifle three positions". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 96–97. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  6. Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 94–95. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  7. London 2012. Archived from the original
    on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

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