Russell Mark

Coaching career Russell Mark is a registered ISSF 'A' class licensed coach and is one of the world's most successful, influential and sought after clay target shooting instructors. He has trained competitors, national teams and coaches in a multitude of countries that include Great Britain, USA, Qatar, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines, South Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, Slovenia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Kuwait and Italy.

In October, 1996 Mark received world-wide media attention for taking a contract to coach Prince Sufri Bolkiah from Brunei, at his personal shooting range for two weeks.

In 2004, Mark served as part of the administrative support team at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics working for the Australian Olympic Committee as an Athlete's Liaison Officer as well as controversially taking the position as the personal coach to the Indian marksman Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore who went on to become India's first ever individual Olympic medalist by winning a silver medal.

Honours 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 2007, in Munich, Germany the International Shooting Sports Federation inducted him as the greatest Double Trap competitor of all time. This was an accolade he shared with fellow shotgun shooters Luciano Giovannetti (men's trap, from Italy), Kimberly Rhode (women's double trap and skeet, from USA), and Susan Nattrass (women's trap, from Canada).

In March 2009, at 45 years of age, Mark was admitted into the Australian Clay Target Association's Hall of Fame as its youngest member at the time.

In 2019, Mark was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He is the second shotgun shooter so honoured. He was preceded by Donald Mackintosh who titled at the Paris 1900 Summer Olympics.

The Australian Clay Target Association made Russell Mark a life member in March 2024.