Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach (also ''Elena Tkach'', ; born 19 May 1970 in

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) is a Russian sport shooter. Representing the former Soviet Union, Tkach won a silver medal in the women's double trap at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in

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, with a total score of 121 clay pigeons. She also defeated Lithuania's

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by one point for the gold medal in the women's trap at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in

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, accumulating a score of 93 targets. Tkach is also a member of the shooting team for Dynamo Voronezh, and is coached and trained by her teammate and two-time Olympian

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. Tkach made her official debut for the

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, 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

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, finishing only in sixth place. The following day, Tkach placed sixteenth in the qualifying rounds of the women's double trap by three points behind Canada's

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, accumulating a score of 90 targets. Twelve years after competing in her last Olympics, Tkach qualified for her second Russian team, as a 42-year-old, at the

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, by placing second in the women's trap from the

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. Tkach had finished on exactly the same score of 70 targets as Finland's

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(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.

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