ISSF World Cup for Shotgun: Six-time Olympic winner Rhode of USA wins skeet title in Qatar
ISSF
World Cup for Shotgun: Six-time Olympic winner Rhode of USA
wins shoot out with compatriot Simonton to clinch women skeet title in Qatar.
Simona Scocchetti takes 3rd place in women's skeet.
Six-time Olympic winner Kimberly
Rhode of USA is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics and at ISSF
World Cups and the 43-year-old show glimpses of why she is so, at the ISF World Cup for
Shotgun at Lusail Shooting Range on Tuesday
The three-time Olympic gold medallist kept her nerve to win a
crucial shoot-out with compatriot Samantha Simonton and notch the women’s skeet title in Qatar.
The gold medal in Qatar just added to her medal collection
at the ISSF World Cup competition, which reads like this…… 19 Gold, 7 Silver,
and 8 Bronze medals and add to it six individual medals won at six consecutive
summer Olympic games.
In the all-American gold medal shoot out in Qatar, Rhode won
6-5 against Simonton, twenty years her junior and one who was not even born
when Rhode won her first Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
The shoot-out was needed to break the deadlock as both the
Americans were tied at 38-38 at the end of 40 regulation targets in a throbbing
final.
Rhode, who began competing in skeet at the age of 10, has
had three gold medals in Olympics starting
with the 1996 Games in Atlanta and again finished on top in 2012 London Games
and also in 2004 Athens Games and she was in full praise for the organizers,
the venue and the facilities.
“This
is a wonderful arena and the competition level is so high here,” Rhode said,
who besides her three Olympic Gold medals won bronze in Sydney Games, silver in
Beijing and bronze in Rio.
“You
have the best of the best (shooters) in the world here. The facility is
incredible,” Rhode said, who is the only triple Olympic Champion and the
only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap.
“Every detail has been well thought out not just
for the athletes, but also for the referees, the coaches. I mean, it’s just
amazing. So at the end of the day, you have a lot of really fantastic scores
and, you know, a lot of medals being awarded. I think we can safely say that
we’ll be back,” Rhode said, who after winning a bronze medal at the Rio
2016 Olympics became the first Olympian to win a medal on five different
continents.
Italy’s
Simona Scocchetti finished in third spot
ahead of Irina Malovichko of
Ukraine, who lost out in the medal race.
On Wednesday, March
8, the skeet specialists will be back on stage with the Mixed Team competition.
The Doha meet is the
second ISSF Shotgun World Cup this year after the one in Rabat in January.
More than 450 shooters
from 63 countries are vying for medals in Doha across individual and team
events. The ISSF World Cup Doha will conclude on March 12.
The high-profile
tournament has attracted 30 World and Olympic champions, as well as several
shooters from Qatar.
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