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Tuesday, September 19
Rhode happy with result
Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia -- Kim Rhode came into this year's double
trap with two Olympic records. She left with just a bronze medal.
Rhode scored 139 points Tuesday (Monday night ET) to finish
third behind Pia Hansen of Sweden and Deborah Gelisio of Italy.
"I am very happy to come away with a medal," said Rhode, 21,
of El Monte, Calif.
Hansen's 148 points -- 112 of them coming in qualifying -- broke
Rhode's marks set at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
"She shot awesome today," Rhode said.
Twelve years after winning his first gold medal, Tanyu Kiriakov
of Bulgaria added a second, this time in the men's 50-meter pistol
competition.
Kiriakov, a gold medalist in the 10-meter air pistol at the
Seoul Games in 1988, won the 50-meter event with 666 points.
Igor Basinsky of Belarus won the silver and Martin Tenk of the
Czech Republic the bronze.
Rhode, a three-time World Cup champion, also is entered in
Thursday's skeet competition. She advanced to the eight-woman
double trap final by scoring 103 points in qualifying.
Basinsky, who won the gold at this year's Atlanta World Cup
event, defended the silver medal he won at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Kiriakov entered the eight-man final on top with 570 points. He
scored more than 10 points in five of the 10 rounds in the final to
hold off Basinsky, who scored 663.3.
Wang Yifu of China, the current world champion, finished sixth
with 659.0 points. Wang was the 10-meter air pistol silver medalist
in these games.
Atlanta gold medalist Boris Kokorev, of Russia, failed to reach
the finals. He scored 559 points and finished in a 12th-place tie.
Bill Demarest, the event's world record-holder from Orange
County, Calif., scored 552 points and placed 23rd. Demarest set a
finals record of 676.2 at this year's Milan World Cup, breaking
Kiriakov's previous record mark of 675.3.
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