Mark Ormrod

Mark Ormrod medal table
sprinter
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 )