Rod Boll
{{Short description|Canadian sports shooter (1952–2021)}}
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| sport = Sports shooting
| birth_date = {{birth date|1952|7|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Fillmore, Saskatchewan, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|1|28|1952|7|9|df=yes}}
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Rod Boll (9 July 1952 – 28 January 2021) was a Canadian sports shooter.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/41473 |title=Rod Boll |work=Olympedia |access-date=17 February 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/weyburn-sk/rodney-boll-10035703 |title=Rodney Maurice Boll |work=Dignity Memorial |access-date=23 March 2022}} He competed in the men's double trap event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/rod-boll-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093237/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/rod-boll-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rod Boll Olympic Results |access-date=29 February 2020}} Boll also competed at two editions of the Pan American Games,{{cite web|url=https://www.csc-sask.ca/saskatchewan-sports-hall-of-fame-2021-inductees-includes-six-with-olympic-paralympic-ties/ |title=SASKATCHEWAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME 2021 INDUCTEES INCLUDES SIX WITH OLYMPIC/PARALYMPIC TIES |work=CSCS |access-date=23 March 2022}} and won more than twenty titles during his career.{{cite web|url=https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/rob-vanstone-family-friends-and-fillmore-came-first-for-rod-boll |title=Rob Vanstone: Family, friends and Fillmore came first for Rod Boll |work=Leader Post |access-date=23 March 2022}} He was posthumously inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://discoverweyburn.com/articles/boll-inducted-into-hall-of-fame |title=Boll Inducted Into Hall of Fame |work=Discover Weyburn |access-date=23 March 2022}}
Biography
Boll was born in Fillmore, Saskatchewan in 1952. He was brought up on a farm and began trap shooting when he was 16, winning a junior title in 1970.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Boll competed in the men's double trap event, where he finished in 19th place.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/51902 |title=Double Trap, Men |work=Olympedia |access-date=23 March 2022}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.conatiro.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/resultados/Result%20Juegos%20Pan%20Mar%20del%20Plata%201995/DOUBLE%20TRAP%20MEN%20TEAMS.pdf |title=Double Trap Teams |work=Confederación Americana de Tiro |access-date=23 March 2022}}
During his life, Boll won more than twenty provincial and national shooting titles. His last title came in 2019,{{cite web|url=https://shootatlantic.com/page.php?page=rod_boll_-_rest_in_peace |title=Rod Boll - Rest in Peace |work=Shoot Atlantic |access-date=23 March 2022}} before he died of a heart attack in January 2021.{{cite web|url=https://leaderpost.remembering.ca/obituary/rodney-boll-1081550838 |title=Rodney Boll |work=Leaderpost |access-date=23 March 2022}} Four months after his death, he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://www.sasktoday.ca/south/local-sports/fillmores-rod-boll-to-be-inducted-to-sask-sports-hall-of-fame-4171229 |title=Fillmore's Rod Boll to be inducted to Sask. Sports Hall of Fame |work=Sask Today |access-date=23 March 2022}} His son, Kahl, is also a trap shooter.{{cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/regina-leader-post/20070716/281994668084909 |title=Shooters keep it all in the family |work=Press Reader |access-date=23 March 2022}}
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Category:Canadian male sport shooters
Category:Olympic shooters for Canada
Category:Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics