From there, she put up a brilliant aim at 481.7 points to chase her fellow markswoman Yuliya Bondareva for sixth place in the air pistol.

[4][5] Belyayeva also competed in the sport pistol, but failed to reach the final after finishing in a distant thirtieth from a field of thirty-seven shooters with a total score of 567 (286 in precision and 281 in the rapid-fire).

[6] After losing her 2000 bid to Bondareva and newcomer Dina Aspandiyarova (who later represented Australia at the succeeding Games), Belyayeva returned from an eight-year-absence to compete for her second Kazakh team, as the oldest athlete (aged 51), in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

[4] She managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 580 in the sport pistol to gain an Olympic quota place for Kazakhstan, following an outside-final finish at the Worlds in Lahti, Finland two years earlier.

[7] In the 10 m air pistol, held on the third day of the Games, Belyayeva fired a frustrating 373 out of a possible 400 to obtain a thirty-third position in a field of forty-one shooters.