Kim Rhode

Kim Rhode 2007

Kimberly "Kim" Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979 in Whittier , California ) is an American sports shooter . She won two Olympic gold medals in double trap and one Olympic gold medal in the Olympic skeet competition.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , competitions were held in double trap for the first time. In the women's category, Kim Rhode shot 141 targets and became the youngest Olympic champion in shooting sports, with the German Susanne Kiermayer winning silver with 139 targets . 1999 Rhode won the Pan American Games . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Rhode scored 139 targets and received bronze behind the Swede Pia Hansen and the Italian Deborah Gelisio . 2003 Rhode won again at the Pan American Games . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Rhode won Olympic gold for the second time. With 146 targets, she was just ahead of South Korean Lee Bo-na . Rhode won six World Cup competitions in double trap in her career. In 2007 she won her first World Cup competition in her new discipline, Skeet, where she set a world record with 98 targets. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Rhode reached the jump-off for the first three places in the skeet final. There she lost to Chiara Cainero , but met once more than Christine Brinker and won the silver medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Rhode won Olympic gold for the third time with an Olympic record of 99 skeet discs. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Rhode won the Olympic bronze medal. She has thus won a medal in six consecutive Olympic Games.

Kim Rhode is co-host of Step Outside on the US Outdoor Channel . She is studying Veterinary Medicine at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona .

Rhode is a public advocate for maintaining the Second Amendment ( right to own and carry weapons ).

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heiko Öldorp: Kim Rhode shoots sharply and stinks , in: NZZ , August 13, 2016, p. 38