Susan Trindall

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Susan Trindall
Personal information
Full nameSusan Maree Trindall
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1983-05-05) 5 May 1983 (age 39)
Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s)Trap (TR75)
Double trap (DT120)
ClubShowman's Clay Target Club [1]
Coached byDorothy Trindall (club)
Greg Chan (national) [1]

Susan Maree Trindall (born 5 May 1983) is an Australian sport shooter. [2] She has won a career tally of five medals, including a gold in women's double trap shooting under junior division at the 2001 ISSF World Championships in Cairo, Egypt, and had a golden opportunity to represent Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [1] Trindall is also a member of Showman's Clay Target Shooting Range and the Australian Clay Target Shooting Association, where she trains full-time under head coach Greg Chan. [1] [3]

Born in Brisbane, Trindall made her first and only Australian squad, along with teammate Suzanne Balogh in the women's double trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She achieved a minimum qualifying score of 102 to fill out one of the Olympic places awarded to the Aussie team at the 2003 ISSF World Cup meet in Granada, Spain. [3] [4] [5] Trindall shot 107 hits out of 120 to force a seventh-place tie with Chinese Taipei's Lin Yi-chun in the qualifying round, narrowly missing out the final by just a single target. [6]

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