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Suzy Balogh |
Suzy Balogh is the first Australian woman to win an Olympic shooting gold medal.
Suzy started competing in clay target shooting when she was 15 in order to spend more time with her father. At the age of 16 she was the youngest woman to win the Women’s Australian Down the Line Clay Target High Gun Title.
She has represented Australia in four disciplines of Clay Target shooting, Down The Line, American Skeet, Double Trap and Olympic Trap.
She stopped competing for 4 years whilst at the University of New England completing her Rural Science Degree. She currently works as an Agricultural Protection Officer with the Department of Primary Industries.
In 1998 she began competing for Australia on the International Scene in Olympic Trap and in 199 in Double Trap.
Suzy won National, Oceania, Commonwealth, World and Olympic Titles, including gold in the women’s trap in Athens 2004 – the first ever gold won by an Australian women in an Olympic shooting event.
Employment:
8 years with NSW Agriculture (now NSW Department of Primary Industries), as an Agricultural Protection Officer. Suzy‘s role is in training, advisory and liaison on invasive animals and plague locusts for State environmental and primary industry agencies and private and public land managers to prevent agricultural loss and protect the natural environment. Her areas of expertise are in fox and feral cat management, providing practical skill straining and control program planning and goal setting.
Goal setting and determination are key to Suzy‘s working and sporting life. Clay Target shooting is an extremely psychological sport where focus, control and determination are required to succeed.
Through Suzy‘s role with the Department of primary Industries, Suzy has become a skilled and entertaining speaker, comfortable presenting whether in paddocks, conference halls or boardrooms. Align this with worldly experiences and Olympic Gold and Suzy is a very personable presenter.
Suzy is also involved as Ambassador for The National Breast Cancer Association and The Australian Youth Olympic Festival.
D.O.B: May 8th 1973
Home: Orange New South Wales
Achievements
Olympic Results
2004 Athens
Olympic Trap - Gold
2005
Awarded Order of Australia Medal at the 2005 Australia Day honours
Commonwealth Games
2002 England
Double Trap pairs - Bronze
Commonwealth Shooting Titles Results
2001 England
Double Trap - Gold
Double Trap pairs - Gold
Olympic Trap Gold
Olympic Trap Pairs - Bronze
1999 New Zealand
Double Trap - Gold
World Cup
2004 Greece
Double Trap - 6th
2002 China
Double Trap - 6th
2001 Korea
Olympic Trap - |
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