Russell Mark, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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sport shooter
Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1964
Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Profession: sport shooter
Nationality: Australia
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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About Russell Mark
- Russell Andrew Mark, (born 25 February 1964 in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria (Australia) is an Olympic Champion Shooter.
- He won the Olympic gold medal in double trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
- He also won an Olympic silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- He has competed at six Olympic Games: 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012.
- The only Australian Summer Olympian to compete in more is Andrew Hoy, who competed in seven Olympiads. His win at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics gave him the distinction of being the inaugural shotgun shooter of the sport to win all four of the world major individual titles: World Cup, World Cup Final, World Championship and Olympic Games.
- After the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, he had a set of silver medals in all four major titles.
- He shares with the American clay target shooter Kimberley Rhode the honor of a grand slam gold and silver medallist. Mark is also a world-renowned professional clay target shooting coach. Mark is a dual World Individual Champion (1994, 1997) and dual World Team Champion (1998 and 1999).
- He won individual World Cup gold medals in Los Angeles, USA (1991) this was the first-ever World Cup individual gold medal by an Australian in any Shooting discipline, Lonato, Italy (1992), Munich, Germany (1994), Lima, Peru (1999), Sydney, Australia (2000) and Perth, Australia (2003).
- At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne he won a gold medal in men's double trap. In August 2007 in Munich, Germany the International Shooting Sports Federation inducted him into its Hall of Fame as the greatest double trap shooter of all time.
- This was an accolade he shared with fellow shotgun shooters Luciano Giovannetti (trap men) - Italy, Kimberly Rhode (double trap and skeet women) - USA and Susan Nattrass (trap women) - Canada. In 1997 Mark was honoured with the Order of Australia Medal for services to sport and the Australian Sports Medal in June 2000.In August 2019 Russell Mark was nominated to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
- He is the second shotgun shooter so honoured.
- He was preceded by Donald Macintosh who titled at the Paris 1900 Summer Olympics.
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