Eduard Alayev Explained

Eduard Alayev
Birth Name:אדוארד אלייב
Birth Date:1967 12, mf=yes
Birth Place:Russia
Height:172 cm
Weight:74 kg
Sport:Sport shooting
Event:
  • Men's 10 metre running target

Eduard Alayev (אדוארד אלייב; also Ilyav or Elyav; born December 4, 1967) is an Israeli former Olympic sport shooter.[1] [2]

He is Jewish, and was born in Russia.[3] [4] He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is 172cm (68inches) tall and weighs 73kg (161lb).[4]

Sport shooting career

He started competing in 1981, and his coach is Marcel Cohen.[4]

He competed for Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target at the age of 24, and came in tied for 15th with a score of 564.[1] [2] [5]

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).[4] [6] He finished 28th at the 1998 Munich World Cup running target competition.[3] He finished 36th in the running target competition at the 1999 Milan World Cup, with a score of 555 total points.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shooting sports - Eduard Elyav (Israel). the-sports.org.
  2. Web site: Eduard Elyav Bio, Stats, and Results. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418060101/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/el/eduard-elyav-1.html. dead. 2020-04-18. sports-reference.com.
  3. http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=630 "Elyav, Eduard"
  4. Web site: ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation. issf-sports.org.
  5. http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s5p2.pdf "Official Reports"
  6. Web site: ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation - issf-sports.org. issf-sports.org.