Women take more gold for USA in shooting & swimming

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SUNDAY, JULY 29 - Kimberly Rhode, 33 years old, became the first American athlete to win an individual medal in five straight Olympics, winning gold and setting an Olympic record for the highest score in the Skeet Shooting Olympic Finals with a 99-out-of-100. The previous mark was 93.

She won gold in double trap shooting in 1996 and 2004, and bronze in the event in 2000. That sport was dropped for the 2008 Beijing Games, so Rhode moved over to skeet shooting, where she captured the silver medal.

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Dana Vollmer crashed in the U.S. Olympic trials four years ago and missed the 2008 Beijing Games entirely, but in 2012 in London, she seized gold in world-record fashion. The favorite in the 100-meter butterfly set Olympic and U.S. records in the event in her preliminary heat, then rewrote the world record, finishing in 55.98 seconds.

OTHER USA MEDALS WON...

SILVER - Women's Diving (Synchronised 3m Springboard), Women's Swimming (Allison Schmitt - 400m Freestyle), Men's Swimming (4x100m Freestyle)

BRONZE - Men's Swimming (Brendan Hansen - 100m Breaststroke)