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Suzanne Elspeth (Suzy) Balogh OAM (born 8 May 1973 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales) is a
sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...
from Australia. Balogh competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
and won a gold medal in Trap. She also competed in the
Double Trap Double trap is a shotgun shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed. The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shooti ...
event.Suzanne Balogh
Orange Sporting Hall of Fame.
She also competed in the
2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002, were an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Manchester, England, ...
in
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where she won a bronze medal, and the 2006 Games in
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, where she won a gold and a bronze in the Trap events. She also reached the final of the women's trap at the
2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
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1973 births Living people Australian female sport shooters Trap and double trap shooters Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Australia Olympic shooters for Australia Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists in shooting Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in shooting Shooters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian sportswomen Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Queanbeyan {{Australia-sportshooting-bio-stub