Russell Mark

Russell Mark medal table
Sport shooting
Australia
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

1. ↑ Mr. Russell Andrew MARK. In: honors.pmc.gov.au. Australian Prime Minister , January 26, 1997, accessed October 5, 2019 .