Mark Ormrod
Mark Ormrod medal table |
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Australia | ||
Olympic Summer Games | ||
silver | 2004 Athens | 4 × 400 m |
Commonwealth Games | ||
gold | 2006 Melbourne | 4 × 400 m |
Mark Ormrod (born December 1, 1982 in Adelaide ) is an Australian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .
He played soccer in his youth , but soon decided to switch to athletics and took part in the World Junior Athletics Championships in 2000. Later he was able to qualify for the Australian 4-by-400-meter relay , which competed at the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris , but missed the final.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he celebrated the greatest success of his career so far in the 4 x 400 meter relay. Together with John Steffensen , Patrick Dwyer and Clinton Hill , he surprisingly won the silver medal behind the US relay in 3: 00.60 minutes .
At the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne he won the gold medal with the relay and the silver medal at the Universiade 2007 in Bangkok . At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, however, he missed the final with the relay. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , he finished sixth in the relay, but was only used in the qualifying round.
Mark Ormrod is 1.85 m tall and has a competition weight of 76 kg.
Top performances
- 100 m : 10.58 s, October 17, 2005, Adelaide
- 200 m : 21.02 s, February 5, 2005, Canberra
- 400 m: 45.62 s, December 1, 2005, Melbourne
Web links
- Mark Ormrod in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Mark Ormrod in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Mark Ormrod in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athletics portrait of Mark Ormrod at Athletics Australia ( Memento from October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ormrod, Mark |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1st December 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Adelaide , Australia |