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Rio Olympics: American shooter Kim Rhode makes history with bronze medal win

American Kim Rhode can now lay claim to an Olympic accomplishment not even the most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, can -- not yet, at least. With her bronze-medal finish in women's skeet shooting Friday, Rhode has officially medaled in six consecutive Olympic Games.

In doing so, she became the first female Olympian to accomplish the feat and only the second overall Olympian in either the Summer or Winter Olympics to claim medals in six straight. Italian men's luger Armin Zoeggeler has also medaled in six straight Olympics, most recently in 2014 in Sochi.

The 37-year-old, who was only 17 when she won her first Olympic medal -- a gold, in women's double trap in Atlanta -- won her bronze in Rio in a shoot-off with Meng Wei of China.