SportsLine.com wire reports
Sept. 18, 2000
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," the 21-year-old shooter from El Monte, Calif., said.
Hansen, with 148 points -- 112 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 at the Sydney Games.
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, is also 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 that 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 Mission Viejo, 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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