Russell Mark

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Russell Mark

Personal information
Full name	Russell Andrew Mark
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1964-02-25) 25 February 1964 (age 60)[1] Ballarat[1]
Spouse	Lauryn Mark[1]
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Medal record Representing Australia Men's shooting Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Double trap 2000 Sydney Double trap Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland Men's Trap - Pairs 2002 Manchester Double trap 2002 Manchester Double trap - Pairs 2006 Melbourne Double trap - Pairs 2006 Melbourne Double trap 2010 Delhi Double trap

Russell Andrew Mark, OAM (born 25 February, 1964 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian Olympic Champion marksman and world-renowned clay target shooting coach specialising in the disciplines of Olympic Trap and American Trap. Mark is a former World and Olympic Record holder and held the world number one ranking on multiple occasions. He won the gold medal in the Double Trap event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Mark competed at six Olympic Games: 1988 (Trap), 1992 (Trap), 1996 (Trap and Double Trap), 2000 (Trap and Double Trap), 2008 (Double Trap), 2012 (Double Trap).^[1] The only Australian Summer Olympian to compete in more Olympiads is Andrew Hoy (seven).

His win at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics gave him the distinction of being the world's inaugural shotgun competitor to win an individual gold medal in all four of the major International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) titles; the World Cup, the World Cup Final, the World Championship and the Olympic Games. Uniquely after the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, he also has a complete set of silver medals from all four of the world's major championships. This is an honour he solely shares with the legendary American female clay target shooter and six time Olympic medalist, Kimberley Rhode.

Mark is a dual World Individual Champion (1994 in Fagnano, Italy and 1997 in Lima, Peru) and also dual World Team Champion in 1998 (Double Trap at Barcelona, Spain with Michael Diamond and Adam Vella) and 1999 (Trap in Tampere, Finland with Michael Diamond and Glenn Kable). When Mark won the World Cup Trap Gold Medal in Los Angeles, USA (1991) he became the first-ever Australian to win an individual ISSF World Cup in any Shooting discipline. He also won World Cup gold medals in Lonato, Italy (1992); Munich, Germany (1994); Lima, Peru (1999); Sydney, Australia (2000); and Perth, Australia (2003). At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Mark won a gold medal in men's Double Trap.