She also became one of the three competitors (and the only woman) to win three Olympic individual gold medals for shooting, along with Ralf Schumann of Germany and Jin Jong-oh of Korea.
With this medal, Rhode is the only American competitor to win medals for an individual event in five consecutive Olympics. On July 29 at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Rhode won the gold medal in skeet shooting with an Olympic record score of 99, tying the world record in this event. Rhode won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's skeet.
Rhode won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in Women's Double trap. Rhode won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Rhode won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making her the youngest female gold medalist in the history of Olympic shooting. At the 2007 World Cup competition in Santo Domingo, she set a new world record in this event with 98 hits (73 in the qualification round and a perfect 25 in the final). In ISSF World Cup competition, she has won 19 Gold, 7 Silver, and 8 Bronze medals. Rhode became a Distinguished International Shooter in 1995 (Badge #388). After double trap shooting was eliminated from the 2008 Summer Olympics, she has concentrated on skeet. Rhode, at 13, won her first world championship title in women's double trap shooting. Rhode began competing in skeet at age 10. Rhode began sport hunting at an early age, traveling on African safaris by the age of 12.
Kimberly Rhode was born in Whittier, California, in 1979. Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five different continents, the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games, and the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter.
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