Personal information | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Born | Fillmore, Saskatchewan, Canada | 9 July 1952
Died | 28 January 2021 | (aged 68)
Sport | |
Sport | Sports 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]
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]