Rod Boll

Rod Boll (9 July 1952 – 28 January 2021) was a Canadian sports shooter.[1][2] He competed in the men's double trap event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[3] Boll also competed at two editions of the Pan American Games,[4] and won more than twenty titles during his career.[5] He was posthumously inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame.[6]

Rod Boll
Personal information
NationalityCanadian
Born(1952-07-09)9 July 1952
Fillmore, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died28 January 2021(2021-01-28) (aged 68)
Sport
SportSports shooting

Biography

Boll was born in Fillmore, Saskatchewan in 1952.[1] He was brought up on a farm and began trap shooting when he was 16,[1] winning a junior title in 1970.[1]

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Boll competed in the men's double trap event, where he finished in 19th place.[7] Boll competed at the 1995 Pan American Games and the 2003 Pan American Games, where he won gold in 1995 in the double trap team event.[8]

During his life, Boll won more than twenty provincial and national shooting titles.[1] His last title came in 2019,[9] before he died of a heart attack in January 2021.[1][10] Four months after his death, he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame.[11] His son, Kahl, is also a trap shooter.[12]

References
  1. "Rod Boll". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  2. "Rodney Maurice Boll". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rod Boll Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  4. "SASKATCHEWAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME 2021 INDUCTEES INCLUDES SIX WITH OLYMPIC/PARALYMPIC TIES". CSCS. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  5. "Rob Vanstone: Family, friends and Fillmore came first for Rod Boll". Leader Post. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  6. "Boll Inducted Into Hall of Fame". Discover Weyburn. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  7. "Double Trap, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  8. "Double Trap Teams" (PDF). Confederación Americana de Tiro. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  9. "Rod Boll - Rest in Peace". Shoot Atlantic. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  10. "Rodney Boll". Leaderpost. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  11. "Fillmore's Rod Boll to be inducted to Sask. Sports Hall of Fame". Sask Today. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  12. "Shooters keep it all in the family". Press Reader. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
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