Mark Ormrod
Mark Ormrod ( born December 1, 1982 in Adelaide ) is an Australian sprinter who specializes in the 400 -meter run.
He played football in his youth, but soon decided to change in the athletics and took, among others, at the Junior World Championships in Athletics in 2000 in part. Later, he managed to qualify for the Australian 4 x 400 - meter relay team, which took at the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003, but missed the final.
At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, he celebrated the biggest success of his career in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Together with John Steffensen, Patrick Dwyer and Clinton Hill he won in 3:00,60 min surprising silver medal behind the U.S. season.
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne he won the relay gold medal at the Universiade 2007 in Bangkok, the silver medal. At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka, however, he missed the season with the final. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, he finished sixth in the relay, but was itself used only in the qualifying round.
Mark Ormrod has a competition weight of 76 kg at a height of 1.85 m.