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Rhode Makes Olympic History in London

Posted on July 30, 2012

Rhode Makes Olympic History in London

Kim Rhode shows off her four Olympic medals at Fall Conference at Cal Poly Pomona on September 22, 2008.Kim Rhode was nearly perfect in London on Sunday, winning a gold medal in the women’s skeet shooting competition. Her record-setting performance makes her the first American to win individual medals in five consecutive Olympics.

Rhode missed only one of 100 shots, tying a world record and setting the Olympic mark. China’s Wei Ning and Danka Bartekova of Slovakia finished second and third.

A food marketing and agribusiness management major, the 33-year-old Rhode has taken home a medal (two gold, one bronze, one silver) at the four previous games.

She made her Olympic debut in Atlanta in 1996 when she was a 17-year-old high school student, stunning the international field with a gold medal win in double trap. She took home a bronze in Sydney and a gold in Athens. When women’s double-trap was discontinued in Beijing, Rhode made a remarkable switch to skeet shooting and won silver.

(Photo: Kim Rhode shows off her four Olympic medals at Fall Conference at Cal Poly Pomona in 2008.)

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