Eduard Alayev (אדוארד אלייב; also Ilyav or Elyav; born December 4, 1967) is an Israeli former Olympic

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms ( firearms and airguns, in forms s ...

. He is Jewish, and was born in Russia."Elyav, Eduard"
/ref> He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 73 kg (220 lb).

Sport shooting career

He started competing in 1981, and his coach is Marcel Cohen. He competed for

Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics Israel competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 30 competitors, 25 men and 5 women, took part in 42 events in 10 sports. Israel won its first ever Olympic medals at these Games. The first medallist in Israel's history was Yael A ...

in Barcelona in

Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target Men's 10 metre running target shooting made its first Olympic appearance at the 1992 Summer Olympics, replacing 50 metre running target on the programme. The events are similar, the main changes being the shortened distance (and correspondingly ...

at the age of 24, and came in tied for 15th with a score of 564. In World Cup competitions in the running target, he won one gold medal (Guatemala City 1992), one silver medal (Milan 1993), and one bronze medal (Guatemala City 1994). He finished 28th at the 1998 Munich World Cup running target competition. He finished 36th in the running target competition at the 1999 Milan World Cup, with a score of 555 total points.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alayev, Eduard Living people Running target shooters Russian emigrants to Israel Russian male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Israel 1967 births Israeli male sport shooters Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Jewish sport shooters Israeli Jews