Mark Aria

Mark Aria
Full name	Marcus Mills Pomeroy Aria
nation	United States
birthday	March 27, 1882
place of birth	Thomasboro
date of death	November 19, 1958
Place of death	Champaign
Career
discipline	Trap
society	Chicago AA
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×

Marcus Mills Pomeroy "Mark" Arie (born March 27, 1882 in Thomasboro , † November 19, 1958 in Champaign ) was an American sports shooter .

successes

Mark Arie began shooting sports in 1905. He competed in the Grand American Handicap for over 30 years, winning the Grand Doubles in 1912 and 1934 . In 1923 and 1928 he also secured the individual title. Arie competed in the Trap discipline at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp . In this he was before his compatriots Frank Troeh and Frank Wright with 95 points Olympic champion . He also finished the team competition with the US team in first place, with 547 points the US had 44 points ahead of the second placed Belgians.

Arie was a member of the All-American Trap team six times , including consistently from its first composition in 1927 until 1930. In 1930 he was also world champion in Rome . Mark Arie was inducted into the Trap Shooting Hall of Fame in 1970 .

Web links

• Mark Arie in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Mark Arie on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)