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.
Suzy Balogh 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 1999 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.
Suzy Balogh has won National, Oceania, Commonwealth, World and Olympic Titles.
Shooting had always been a part time sport whilst Suzy spent 10 years working for the NSW Department of Primary Industries as an Agricultural Protection Officer, based initially in Wagga Wagga and then in Orange. Suzy's role was in training, advisory and liaison of 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.
Most recently Suzy has been a motivational speaker specialising in goal setting for corporation and after dinner talks. Suzy now plans to establish a Shooting business based in the ACT to introduce clay target shooting to others. She will be running personal coaching, team building workshops for corporations and businesses and come and try days for families.
Suzy Balogh is a National Ambassador for Breast Cancer and has been ambassador for several other charities and organisations such as Sids and Kids ACT, the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, the Red Cross Blood Bank, PCYC, RYLA and Camp Quality.
Suzy Balogh has also represented the NSW State Government at the Foundation for Young Australians 'developing young leaders' Forum and representing the Australian Olympic Committee at the 2005 International Olympic Academy. Suzy is a committee member of the Canberra International Clay Target Association and the NSW Olympians Club and is a Director on the Australian Target Shooters Club.