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Monrovia Weekly Aug 19, 2016
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By Susan Motander
Monrovian Kim Rhode has done it again. She had won another Olympic medal. The Bronze Medal is her sixth: three Golds, a Silver, and one other Bronze. It is also her sixth Olympic Games. With that feat she has set several records. She is first woman to win medals in six consecutive Olympic Games. She is the first American to win medals in six consecutive Olympic Games. And she is the only person to medal in six consecutive summer Olympics (there is a luger who has medaled in six Olympics as well, but that is a winter sport).
READ MORE: Kim Rhode’s Biography
She won those medals shoot first Double Trap and now Skeet. She won her first Gold medal in 1996 in Atlanta when she was barely 17 years old. Four years later in Sydney, she won the Bronze medal, again for Double Trap, and the Gold again in 2004 in Athens in the same event.
After the Athens Olympics, the International Olympic Committee did away with Double Trap. So Rhode switched to Skeet, and in 2008 won the Silver Medal in that event in Beijing. She went on to win the Gold in London and just last week won the Bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro.
