| Rod Boll | |
| Sport: | Sports shooting |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Fillmore, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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]