Rhode, at 13, won her first world championship title in women's double trap shooting. After double trap shooting was eliminated from the
2008 Summer Olympics, she has concentrated on skeet. Rhode became a Distinguished International Shooter in 1995 (Badge #388). In ISSF World Cup competition, she has won 19 Gold, 7 Silver, and 8 Bronze medals. 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).
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 won a gold medal at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens in Women's Double trap.
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. 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. Kim Rhode 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. ==TV Host==