Rod Boll

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

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]

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. ^ a b c d e f "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.