Russell Mark
Russell Mark medal table |
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Olympic games | ||
gold | Atlanta 1996 | Double trap |
silver | Sydney 2000 | Double trap |
World championships | ||
silver | Montecatini Terme 1989 | Double trap (M) |
silver | Moscow 1990 | Double trap (M) |
gold | Fagnano 1994 | Double trap |
silver | Fagnano 1994 | Double trap (M) |
silver | Nicosia 1995 | Trap (M) |
silver | Nicosia 1995 | Double trap (M) |
gold | Lima 1997 | Double trap |
bronze | Lima 1997 | Trap (M) |
silver | Lima 1997 | Double trap (M) |
silver | Barcelona 1998 | Double trap |
gold | Barcelona 1998 | Double trap (M) |
gold | Tampere 1999 | Trap (M) |
silver | Lahti 2002 | Trap (M) |
silver | Nicosia 2003 | Double trap |
silver | Nicosia 2003 | Double trap (M) |
Commonwealth Games | ||
bronze | Auckland 1990 | Trap (P) |
silver | Manchester 2002 | Double trap |
silver | Manchester 2002 | Double trap (P) |
gold | Melbourne 2006 | Double trap (P) |
Russell Andrew Mark , OAM (born February 25, 1964 in Ballarat ) is a former Australian sports shooter in the disciplines of trap and double trap .
successes
Russell Mark participated in six Olympic Games . In 1988 he finished 15th in the trap in Seoul , and four years later he was ninth in the trap in Barcelona . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he was ranked 13th in the trap competition. In double trap he reached the final with 141 points, in which he scored 48 more points and took first place with a total of 189 points. This made him Olympic champion ahead of Albano Pera and Zhang Bing . Also in 2000 in Sydney he started in both disciplines and finished the trap competition again in 13th place. With 187 points he finished the double trap competition together with Richard Faulds on the shared first place, so that a jump-off decided whether to win the gold medal. While Mark missed the third goal, Faulds scored and thus secured the Olympic victory. That left Mark with the silver medal. At the 2008 Games in Beijing , he moved in double trap only after a successful jump-off against three competitors as the sixth and last shooter in the final round, which he finished with 181 points in fifth. His last Olympic participation in London in 2012 ended in a double trap with 20th place.
At world championships Mark won the title four times: 1994 in Fagnano Olona and 1997 in Lima in the singles competition in double trap as well as in the team competitions in 1998 in Barcelona in double trap and 1999 in Tampere in trap. In addition, between 1989 and 2003 he was vice world champion ten times, twice in singles and both times in double trap. The other second places he achieved with the trap and double trap team. He also won a bronze medal. In 1990 , Mark won bronze in the Trap pairs competition at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland . Twelve years later , in Manchester , he made the leap to silver in both singles and pairs in the double trap. In Melbourne he finally won the gold medal in 2006 in the pairs competition of the double traps.
For his Olympic victory in 1997 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia . Mark retired in 2014 and was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame five years later . He is married to the Olympic marksman Lauryn Mark and has three children with her.
Web links
- Russell Mark in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
- Russell Mark in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mr. Russell Andrew MARK. In: honors.pmc.gov.au. Australian Prime Minister , January 26, 1997, accessed October 5, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mark, Russell |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mark, Russell Andrew (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian marksman |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ballarat , Australia |