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Mar 8, 20232 min read

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 s




















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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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