Shooter Kim Rhode missed just one shot out of 100 - equalling the world record - as she became America’s first individual medallist at five straight Olympics with gold in the women’s skeet Sunday.

Rhode, a medallist in Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing, destroyed the field at the Royal Artillery Barracks, never looking remotely in danger under cloudy skies in south London.

China’s Wei Ning won silver with Danka Bartekova of Slovakia taking bronze after a shoot-off. But the competition was a procession for Rhode - who then warned her rivals she had no intention of retiring.

Rhode, 33, won golds in women’s double trap in Atlanta in 1996 and in Athens in 2004, taking bronze in the event in Sydney in 2000.

She switched to skeet full-time when women’s double trap was discontinued as an Olympic event after Athens, and grabbed silver in the discipline four years ago in Beijing.

“One got away but everyone misses every now and then,” said a delighted Rhode.

“I know that I felt very comfortable in that final round and through the match and was really ready. I felt that I had done everything I could and there wasn’t anything more and I was just going to let the chips lay where they may.”

Skeet requires competitors to hit a clay target moving away from them. The top six shooters from the qualification go into the final, where they fire a further 25 targets, with the scores added to their qualifying tally.

Rhode’s build-up to the London Games was hit when flight problems forced her to miss her team’s training camp in Denmark, and when her four-month-old puppy ate her plane ticket.