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==International competition== 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).<ref name="CMP">{{cite web |url=https://ct.thecmp.org/app/v1/index.php?do=contactDistinguishedView&distinguished_id=10426 |title=Distinguished International Shooter Badge |access-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref> In ISSF World Cup competition, she has won 19 Gold, 7 Silver, and 8 Bronze medals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHUSAW1607197901|title=ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation - issf-sports.org|website=www.issf-sports.org|access-date=April 6, 2018}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.skeet.se/arkiv/2007/v2_07/resultat/2007/wc107wom.pdf|title=ISSF World Cup Santo Domingo 2007 FINAL RESULTS SKEET WOMEN}}</ref> ===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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18904234 |title=Olympics skeet shooting: Kim Rhode wins to make US history |date=July 29, 2012 |access-date=July 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729231726/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18904234 |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/May/20/Shooter-Kim-Rhode-Qualifies-For-Rio-Will-Be-Second-US-Woman-To-Compete-At-6-Olympics |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526000725/http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/May/20/Shooter-Kim-Rhode-Qualifies-For-Rio-Will-Be-Second-US-Woman-To-Compete-At-6-Olympics |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 26, 2016 |title=Shooter Kim Rhode Qualifies For Rio, Will Be Second U.S. Woman To Compete At 6 Olympics |publisher=Teamusa.org |access-date=May 26, 2016}}</ref> 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.
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