Kim Rhode

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  Posted by RevBigJohn August 18, 2016 - Filed in Personal Journal - 760 views
  

  Kim Rhode, the FIRST WOMAN and first Summer Olympian to medal in SIX consecutive 
  Olympics. You'd think the glass ceiling crowd would be all over that, right? Not 
  so much. She won those medals with a gun and is an outspoken supporter of the 
  2nd Amendment. 
   
  Rhode began competing in skeet at age 10 and at 13, won her first world 
  championship title in women's double trap shooting. 
   
  1996 Olympics 
  Rhode won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making her the youngest 
  female gold medalist in the history of Olympic shooting. 
   
  2000 Olympics 
  Rhode won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 
   
  2004 Olympics 
  Rhode also won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. 
   
  2008 Olympics 
  Rhode won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's skeet. 
   
  2012 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.[5] With this medal, Rhode is the only American competitor to win medals 
  for an individual event in five consecutive Olympics. 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. 
   
  2016 Olympics 
  Qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics made Rhode the first U.S. Olympian to 
  qualify for an Olympic team on five different continents.[6]Kim Rhode won the 
  bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics making her the first Olympian to win a 
  medal on five different continents.