Olympic history was made yesterday, in the bronze medal match in the women’s skeet. American Kim Rhode – who marked her Olympic debut as a 17-year-old in Atlanta with a gold in the Double Trap – defeated China’s Meng Wei in a nerve wracking sudden death shoot-off to win a sixth straight medal in six different Games.

No summer athlete has achieved that before, with the only other Olympian to lay claim to the feat being Austrian luger Armin Zoggeler.

At 37, and starting a family back in California, such an iconic moment could have sparked retirement talk but Rhode has already committed herself to Tokyo 2020 when she’ll be going for an unprecedented seventh piece of metal around her neck.