Elena Tkach

Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach (also Elena Tkach, Russian: Елена Анатольевна Ткач; born 19 May 1970 in Kopeysk, Russian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian sport shooter.[1][2] Representing the former Soviet Union, Tkach won a silver medal in the women's double trap at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Perth, Australia, with a total score of 121 clay pigeons.[3] She also defeated Lithuania's Daina Gudzinevičiūtė by one point for the gold medal in the women's trap at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in 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]

Elena Tkach
Personal information
Full nameYelena Anatolyevna Tkach
Nationality Russia
Born (1970-05-19) 19 May 1970
Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk,
Russian SFSR
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)Trap, double trap
ClubDynamo Voronezh[1]
Coached byMaxim Kosarev[1]
Medal record
Women's shooting
European Games
2015 BakuMixed Trap
2015 BakuTrap
World Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
1991 PerthDouble trap
Representing  Russia
ISSF World Championships
2002 LahtiTrap
2011 BelgradeTrap
2013 Lima Trap

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 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing second in the women's trap from the 2011 European Shooting Championships in 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. "Elena Tkach". London 2012. 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. "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: Women's Trap" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 96–97. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  6. "Sydney 2000: Women's Double Trap" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 94–95. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  7. "Women's Trap Qualification". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.


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