Following the fourth and final stage of the standard ISSF World Cup season, the first seven athletes have been confirmed for the women's skeet competition for the 2025 ISSF World Cup Final in Doha, Qatar.
Qualification Rules
4 Winners of each 2025 ISSF World Cup event, or next best unqualified athlete if repeated winners.
1 2024 ISSF World Cup Final Title Defender.
2 Highest-ranked athletes not qualified from the 2025 ISSF World Cup rankings. This can become more if athletes qualify through two different routes.
To be confirmed
3 2025 ISSF World Championships medallists.
2 Wild cards from the host nation can be submitted.
Qualification Rules
4 Winners of each 2025 ISSF World Cup event, or next best unqualified athlete if repeated winners.
1 2024 ISSF World Cup Final Title Defender.
2 Highest-ranked athletes not qualified from the 2025 ISSF World Cup rankings. This can become more if athletes qualify through two different routes.
To be confirmed
3 2025 ISSF World Championships medallists.
2 Wild cards from the host nation can be submitted.
Dania Vizzi
Nation: United States
World Cup Ranking: 3
Qualification: ISSF World Cup gold (Buenos Aires)
Dania Vizzi has been part of an impressive American trio who have dominated in the women's skeet this season, and was particularly impressive in the opening two rounds in South America.
The 2017 world champion won the opening round of the ISSF World Cup in Buenos Aires and followed it up by finishing third in Lima in an all-American podium. While she did not compete in Nicosia, she returned to claim silver in Lonato - making it a medal of each colour going into the World Cup.
Vizzi has a strong record at the ISSF World Cup Final and is set to make her fourth appearance and her third in a row. She has two bronze medals to her name from the event and a fourth-place finish too.
Nation: United States
World Cup Ranking: 3
Qualification: ISSF World Cup gold (Buenos Aires)
Dania Vizzi has been part of an impressive American trio who have dominated in the women's skeet this season, and was particularly impressive in the opening two rounds in South America.
The 2017 world champion won the opening round of the ISSF World Cup in Buenos Aires and followed it up by finishing third in Lima in an all-American podium. While she did not compete in Nicosia, she returned to claim silver in Lonato - making it a medal of each colour going into the World Cup.
Vizzi has a strong record at the ISSF World Cup Final and is set to make her fourth appearance and her third in a row. She has two bronze medals to her name from the event and a fourth-place finish too.
Kimberly Rhode
Nation: United States
World Cup Ranking: 11
Qualification: ISSF World Cup gold (Lima)
Lima was a happy hunting ground for one of the most successful skeet shooters in history, as Kimberly Rhode led an American clean sweep of the podium on her way to gold.
The 46-year-old, who is a three-time Olympic champion, six-time Olympic medallist and the 2010 world champion, has a career that goes back decades. In fact, when Rhode won her first ISSF World Cup gold medal in 1996, her current teammate Samantha Simonton was not even born.
It was one of 24 individual World Cup wins over 29 years for Rhode, whose latest gold came in Lima this year. She was runner-up to Vizzi in Buenos Aires just a fortnight before her Peru success.
She is incredibly successful at the ISSF World Cup Final too, with this being her 17th time qualifying. She has won the event on three occasions between 2011 and 2017.
Nation: United States
World Cup Ranking: 11
Qualification: ISSF World Cup gold (Lima)
Lima was a happy hunting ground for one of the most successful skeet shooters in history, as Kimberly Rhode led an American clean sweep of the podium on her way to gold.
The 46-year-old, who is a three-time Olympic champion, six-time Olympic medallist and the 2010 world champion, has a career that goes back decades. In fact, when Rhode won her first ISSF World Cup gold medal in 1996, her current teammate Samantha Simonton was not even born.
It was one of 24 individual World Cup wins over 29 years for Rhode, whose latest gold came in Lima this year. She was runner-up to Vizzi in Buenos Aires just a fortnight before her Peru success.
She is incredibly successful at the ISSF World Cup Final too, with this being her 17th time qualifying. She has won the event on three occasions between 2011 and 2017.
Arina Kuznetsova
Nation: Individual Neutral Athlete
World Cup Ranking: 2
Qualification: ISSF World Cup gold (Nicosia)
It has been a season to remember so far for Arina Kuznetsova, who will be heading towards Doha with a vast amount of confidence.
As a teenager, she made her ISSF World Cup debut in Lonato, placing 44th. Just two months later, she followed that up by finishing 11th in Osijek. Since then, her momentum has only moved upwards. She was 11th again when she returned to the circuit in 2024 in Lonato, before moving into the 2025 season.
Kuznetsova won bronze in Buenos Aires and then took her first World Cup title in Nicosia. Her consistency shone through as she finished ninth in Lonato in the last leg.
Turning 24 on the opening day of the ISSF World Cup Final, she will hope it is a memorable birthday.
Nation: Individual Neutral Athlete
World Cup Ranking: 2
Qualification: ISSF World Cup gold (Nicosia)
It has been a season to remember so far for Arina Kuznetsova, who will be heading towards Doha with a vast amount of confidence.
As a teenager, she made her ISSF World Cup debut in Lonato, placing 44th. Just two months later, she followed that up by finishing 11th in Osijek. Since then, her momentum has only moved upwards. She was 11th again when she returned to the circuit in 2024 in Lonato, before moving into the 2025 season.
Kuznetsova won bronze in Buenos Aires and then took her first World Cup title in Nicosia. Her consistency shone through as she finished ninth in Lonato in the last leg.
Turning 24 on the opening day of the ISSF World Cup Final, she will hope it is a memorable birthday.
Jiang Yiting
Nation: China
World Cup Ranking: =7
Qualification: ISSF World Cup bronze (Lonato)
Jiang Yiting is the first example of an athlete receiving their spot via the ISSF World Cup results, without winning the gold medal.
Shotgun events have provided unique winners in all 16 individual men's and women's trap and skeet events, with Samantha Simonton becoming the third of the Americans to win a women's skeet title this season. However, Simonton's victory in New Delhi at the 2024 ISSF World Cup Final meant she had already sealed her spot in Doha this December.
Jiang finished behind Simonton and Buenos Aires winner Vizzi in Lonato to claim the bronze medal, crucially finishing one shot ahead of Greece's Emmanouela Katzouraki for third place - if they had finished level, the Greek would have stayed in the competition based on seeding and she instead would have taken the spot.
However, Jiang's qualification is not just good fortune, she is ranked seventh in the rankings, having also finished fourth in Lima. She also took bronze in the mixed skeet competition with Lyu Jianlin at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and was 10th in the individual event.
She will be heading back to Doha two years on from finishing sixth at her debut ISSF World Cup Final. While the American trio will be difficult to crack, she has stood on the top of the podium before and can do so again.
Nation: China
World Cup Ranking: =7
Qualification: ISSF World Cup bronze (Lonato)
Jiang Yiting is the first example of an athlete receiving their spot via the ISSF World Cup results, without winning the gold medal.
Shotgun events have provided unique winners in all 16 individual men's and women's trap and skeet events, with Samantha Simonton becoming the third of the Americans to win a women's skeet title this season. However, Simonton's victory in New Delhi at the 2024 ISSF World Cup Final meant she had already sealed her spot in Doha this December.
Jiang finished behind Simonton and Buenos Aires winner Vizzi in Lonato to claim the bronze medal, crucially finishing one shot ahead of Greece's Emmanouela Katzouraki for third place - if they had finished level, the Greek would have stayed in the competition based on seeding and she instead would have taken the spot.
However, Jiang's qualification is not just good fortune, she is ranked seventh in the rankings, having also finished fourth in Lima. She also took bronze in the mixed skeet competition with Lyu Jianlin at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and was 10th in the individual event.
She will be heading back to Doha two years on from finishing sixth at her debut ISSF World Cup Final. While the American trio will be difficult to crack, she has stood on the top of the podium before and can do so again.
Samantha Simonton
Nation: United States
World Cup Ranking: 1
Qualification: ISSF World Cup Final Title Defender
Samantha Simonton rounds off the three Americans who have been ever-present on the ISSF World Cup podium this season - and she has been the most consistent.
The 25-year-old finished ninth in Buenos Aires before going on a streak of three straight ISSF World Cup podiums. She finished runner-up to Vizzi and Kuznetsova in Lima and Nicosia, before winning outright in Lonato for her second World Cup gold medal.
However, Simonton is in a position where she has qualified through three different criteria, and will look to make it through all four non-wildcard pathways by taking a medal at the ISSF World Championship Shotgun in Athens. She is the top-ranked athlete this season and won the ISSF World Cup in Lonato; but she qualifies as the defending champion from the 2024 ISSF World Cup Final.
It is very hard to look past Simonton at the moment, but as we have seen, this field is wide open.
Nation: United States
World Cup Ranking: 1
Qualification: ISSF World Cup Final Title Defender
Samantha Simonton rounds off the three Americans who have been ever-present on the ISSF World Cup podium this season - and she has been the most consistent.
The 25-year-old finished ninth in Buenos Aires before going on a streak of three straight ISSF World Cup podiums. She finished runner-up to Vizzi and Kuznetsova in Lima and Nicosia, before winning outright in Lonato for her second World Cup gold medal.
However, Simonton is in a position where she has qualified through three different criteria, and will look to make it through all four non-wildcard pathways by taking a medal at the ISSF World Championship Shotgun in Athens. She is the top-ranked athlete this season and won the ISSF World Cup in Lonato; but she qualifies as the defending champion from the 2024 ISSF World Cup Final.
It is very hard to look past Simonton at the moment, but as we have seen, this field is wide open.
Gabriela Rodriguez
Nation: Mexico
World Cup Ranking: 4
Qualification: World Cup rankings
The Mexican has had a quiet consistency throughout her career so far, despite podiums eluding her. Gabriela Rodriguez's only individual podium would be at the 2023 Pan American Games in the women's skeet, but she is constantly a presence among the best in the world.
Since 2022, she has had five top 10 finishes on the ISSF World Cup circuit, with her two best finishes coming at the tail end of the year. She placed fourth in Nicosia, missing out on the bronze following a close contest with China's Che Yufei. In Lonato, she ended the circuit by finishing fifth.
Both at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rodriguez just missed the finals, being ranked seventh and 12th.
This will be her second ISSF World Cup Final, following her debut last season in New Delhi. She finished ninth then and will have a great opportunity to improve on that result in Doha.
Nation: Mexico
World Cup Ranking: 4
Qualification: World Cup rankings
The Mexican has had a quiet consistency throughout her career so far, despite podiums eluding her. Gabriela Rodriguez's only individual podium would be at the 2023 Pan American Games in the women's skeet, but she is constantly a presence among the best in the world.
Since 2022, she has had five top 10 finishes on the ISSF World Cup circuit, with her two best finishes coming at the tail end of the year. She placed fourth in Nicosia, missing out on the bronze following a close contest with China's Che Yufei. In Lonato, she ended the circuit by finishing fifth.
Both at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rodriguez just missed the finals, being ranked seventh and 12th.
This will be her second ISSF World Cup Final, following her debut last season in New Delhi. She finished ninth then and will have a great opportunity to improve on that result in Doha.
Che Yufei
Nation: China
World Cup Ranking: 5
Qualification: World Cup rankings
A two-time world junior champion, Che Yufei is yet to fully establish herself as a senior athlete, but 2025 showed signs of future success, following her maiden podium in Nicosia.
There, she finished behind Arina Kuznetsova and Samantha Simonton after a good battle with Gabriela Rodriguez. It was also her fifth top 10 World Cup finish and her second of the season, after finishing a then-career best of sixth in Lima.
This will be her ISSF World Cup Final debut and she qualifies as fifth in the World Cup rankings, rewarded for her consistency.
All qualifiers for the ISSF World Cup Final can be found here and all World Cup rankings here.
Highest-ranked non-qualifiers still in contention: Emmanouela Katzouraki (Greece), Wu Yingying (China), Marjut Heinonen (Finland)