Elena Tkach

{{Short description|Russian sports shooter (born 1970)}}

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| name = Elena Tkach

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| fullname = Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach

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| nationality = {{RUS}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk,
Russian SFSR

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| weight = {{convert|64|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

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| sport = Shooting

| event = Trap, double trap

| club = Dynamo Voronezh

| coach = Maxim Kosarev

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{{MedalSport | Women's shooting}}

{{MedalCompetition | European Games}}

{{MedalSilver|2015 Baku|Mixed Trap}}

{{MedalBronze|2015 Baku|Trap}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

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{{MedalSilver|1991 Perth|Double trap}}

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{{MedalCompetition|ISSF World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2002 Lahti|Trap}}

{{MedalBronze|2011 Belgrade|Trap}}

{{MedalBronze|2013 Lima | Trap}}

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Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach (also Elena Tkach, {{langx|ru|Елена Анатольевна Ткач}}; born 19 May 1970 in Kopeysk, Russian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian sport shooter.{{cite web|title=Elena Tkach|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/tkach-elena-1011380/|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-date=30 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530195418/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/tkach-elena-1011380/|url-status=dead}}{{cite sports-reference|title = Elena Tkach|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tk/yelena-tkach-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417214603/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tk/yelena-tkach-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|access-date = 10 February 2013}} 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.{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Elena Tkach|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHRUSW1905197001|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=10 February 2013}} 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.{{cite news|title=Engleder wins World Cup gold medal in 50m rifle three positions|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20120426/shooting-world-cup/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103135914/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20120426/shooting-world-cup/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 3, 2013|work=Sports Illustrated|publisher=CNN|date=26 April 2012|accessdate=10 February 2013}} 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.

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.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Women's Trap|url=http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|work=Sydney 2000|publisher=LA84 Foundation|pages=96–97|accessdate=6 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911143840/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|archive-date=11 September 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} 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.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Women's Double Trap|url=http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|work=Sydney 2000|publisher=LA84 Foundation|pages=94–95|accessdate=6 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911143840/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|archive-date=11 September 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

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. 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.{{cite web|title=Women's Trap Qualification|url=http://www.london2012.com/shooting/event/women-trap/phase=shw401900/index.html|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-date=11 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111034746/http://www.london2012.com/shooting/event/women-trap/phase=shw401900/index.html|url-status=dead}}