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GOING FOR ANOTHER GOLD

We consider Kim Rhode a living national treasure. A competitive shooter from the age of 10, she’s set numerous records as a double trap and skeet shooter in the Olympics.

She was the youngest female gold medalist in the history of Olympic shooting when she medaled at 17. Not one to rest on her laurels, she went on to medal in six consecutive summer Olympics, becoming the first woman to do so, as well as the first Olympian to medal on five different continents with three gold, one silver, and two bronze medals.

Rhode also has an amazing 20 World Cup gold medals and has won countless other honors over the years at state, national, and international levels.

Her family has a long history of hunting and shooting in the American West, and Rhode’s future still has unlimited potential, especially when one considers that the oldest person ever to compete in the Olympics

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