Russell Mark
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Russell Andrew Mark, OAM (born 25 February 1964 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian Olympic Champion Shooter and world-renowned shotgun coach. 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 Olympiads is Andrew Hoy (seven).
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Full name | Russell Andrew Mark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1964-02-25) 25 February 1964 (age 60) Ballarat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. Uniquely after the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics he also has a set of silver medals in all four major titles, an honour he solely shares with the legendary American clay target shooter and six time Olympic medalist, Kimberley Rhode.
Mark is a dual World Individual Champion (1994, 1997) and dual World Team Champion (1998 and 1999). He won an individual World Cup gold medal in Los Angeles, US (1991); this was the first-ever World Cup individual gold medal by an Australian in any Shooting discipline. He also won gold medals in Lonato, Italy (1992); Munich, Germany (1994); Lima, Peru (1999); Sydney, Australia (2000); and Perth, Australia (2003). At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Mark won a gold medal in men's Double Trap.
In 1999 Mark opened a food, alcohol and gaming machine establishment operating under the name of "The Tigers Clubhouse" in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria. It is registered for commercial trading in the state of Victoria as a club. In 2012 he opened a similar business, a licensed hotel, in Tarneit, Victoria operating under the identity of "Hotel 520".
He has written a monthly coaching and advice article for Australia's biggest shooting magazine, Australian Shooter, since 1999.
In 1999, together with his wife Lauryn, he formed the coaching and commercial corporate clay target shooting entertainment business that was known as "Russell Mark Shooting". In 2002 it was renamed to "Corporate Shooting Stars" and now operates under the name of "Go Shooting" in Victoria and Queensland. In 2023 he sold the franchise licences in both States and no longer operates the commercial/entertainment branch of the company.
In 2021 Mark created the highly successful online coaching YouTube Channel "Go Shooting Shotgun Coaching Videos" that now consist of over one hundred tutorials.