Susan Nattrass

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Susan Nattrass at the 2019 World Masters Championship in Suhl
Personal information
Full nameSusan Marie Nattrass
BornNovember 5, 1950 (1950-11-05) (age 73)
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Sport
CountryCanada
Sport Shooting sports
Event Trap shooting
Medal record
Women's trap shooting
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Delhi Trap pairs

Susan Marie Nattrass, OC (born November 5, 1950) is a Canadian trap shooter and medical researcher in osteoporosis. She was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Competing at an elite international level from the 1970s through the 2010s, Nattrass has had multiple appearances, in one or both of trap or double trap, at Olympic Games, [1] Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Pan American Games. Nattrass is a repeat World Champion and repeat medalist at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Pan American Games. She was the flag bearer for Canada at the 2007 Pan American Games (and a gold medal winner) and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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As of the 2012 Olympics, Nattrass is one of only 122 athletes (and one of only 46 still active), all sports, to compete in at least six Olympic Games, appearing in 1976, '88, '92, 2000, '04 and '08. She won a gold medal at the World Championships in 1974, '75, '77, '78, '79, '81, and 2006.

Beginnings

She was introduced to trap shooting by her father Floyd Nattrass, who competed for Canada at the World Championships in 1958 and 1968 and at the Olympics in 1964. [2] Nattrass said of her father:

"While other kids would go to the lake for the summer, we always went to trap shoots. My dad started when I was 5; we'd go to shoots, and I did everything I could do be a part of it. Then when I turned 12, he taught me how to shoot." [3]

Olympics and Commonwealth Games

In the 1976 Summer Olympics she became the first ever woman to participate in a shooting event at the Olympics, as shooting was open to both sexes until 1992. She won a silver medal at the 2001 world championships in Cairo, Egypt in the trap event. She finished 9th in the 2000 Summer Olympics and 6th in the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's trap shooting.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games Nattrass won three medals: two silver in women's double trap pairs and women's trap pairs and a bronze in women's trap.

She won the Trap Shooting event at the World Championships in 1981 and 2006, twenty-five years apart. [3]

After the 1996 Summer Olympics, the International Shooting Union decided to discontinue the trap and skeet shooting events for women and instead allow women to compete in the double trap, where two clay saucers are thrown simultaneously. This is a difficult transition that Nattrass - who won two World Cups in the double trap in 1993 - equated to a downhill skier having to switch to cross-country. She led a campaign - writing letters, doing surveys, playing politics - against the decision to remove the two events. After five years, the campaign succeeded and women's skeet and trap shooting remained in the Olympics. [4]

In 1981, she was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canadian Athlete of the Year and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is also listed as a recipient of the Vanier Award for Outstanding Young Canadians. [5]

She has travelled around the world at various competitions for over three decades, nearly always accompanied by her mother and coach Marie. [3] [6]

As of August 2018 Nattrass serves on the board of directors, Sections Chairs of the Shooting Federation of Canada. [7]

Education and research

Nattrass earned a bachelor's degree in Physical Education from the University of Alberta in 1972 and a Masters in 1974, and has since been an instructor, administrator, lecturer and consultant in physical education and sports psychology. In between her first and second Olympic appearances in 1976 and 1988, she earned her doctorate from the University of Alberta in 1987. [8] [9]

Since 1996, Nattrass has lived on Vashon Island near Seattle. [3] She moved there when she joined the Pacific Medical Center as a medical researcher in September 1996. [9] She owns and runs the Puget Sound Osteoporosis Center, where she studies the effects of aging in bones on active sportswomen in their forties and older, takes part in clinical trials, and provides pro-bono screenings in the community. [10]

Awards and achievements

Olympic results
Event197619801984198819921996200020042008
Trap (mixed) 25th
173
30th
141
21st
142+46
Not held
Trap (women)Not held 9th
63
6th
61+15
11th
63
Double trap (women)Not held 15th
93
15th
88
Not held

Results in World Championships

YearPlaceGoldSilverBronze
1971 Flag of Italy.svg Bologna Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Galina Khomutova  (URS)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of Mexico.svg  Nuria Ortiz  (MEX)
1974 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Bern Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of the United States.svg  Audrey Grosch  (USA)Flag of France.svg  Francoise Robrolle  (FRA)
1975 Flag of Germany.svg Munich Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of Germany.svg  Elisabeth von Soden  (FRG)Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Natalia Ukolova  (URS)
1977 Flag of France.svg Antibes Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of the United States.svg  Audrey Grosch  (USA)Flag of Italy.svg  Wanda Gentiletti  (ITA)
1978 Flag of South Korea.svg Seoul Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of Italy.svg  Wanda Gentiletti  (ITA)Flag of Spain.svg  Maria Carmen Garcia de Cubas  (ESP)
1979 Flag of Italy.svg Montecatini Terme Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Julia Klekova  (URS)Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Larisa Tushkina  (URS)
1981 Flag of Argentina.svg Tucuman Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of France.svg  Mauricette Colavito  (FRA)Flag of the United States.svg  Frances Strodtman  (USA)
1982 Flag of Venezuela.svg Caracas Flag of Spain.svg  Maria Carmen Garcia de Cubas  (ESP)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Elena Shishirina  (URS)
1983 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Edmonton Flag of the United States.svg  Connie Tomsovic  (USA)Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Elena Shishirina  (URS)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)
1986 Flag of East Germany.svg Suhl Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Gao E  (CHN)Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Elena Shishirina  (URS)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)
1991 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Perth Flag of Spain.svg  Gema Usieto  (ESP)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of Italy.svg  Roberta Pelosi  (ITA)
2001 Flag of Egypt.svg Cairo Flag of Russia.svg  Irina Laricheva  (RUS)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Gao E  (CHN)
2005 Flag of Italy.svg Lonato Flag of Italy.svg  Deborah Gelisio  (ITA)Flag of Russia.svg  Irina Laricheva  (RUS)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)
2006 Flag of Croatia.svg Zagreb Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Susan Nattrass (CAN)Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Li Chen  (CHN)Flag of North Korea.svg  Hye Gyong Chae  (PRK)

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Awards
Preceded by Lou Marsh Trophy winner
1981
Succeeded by