Susan Nattrass

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susan Nattrass
Occupation	Sport Shooter
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1950(1950-11-05)
Age	74
Birthplace	Medicine Hat
Country	Canada
Birth City	Alberta
Horoscope	Scorpio

Susan Nattrass Biography

Susan Nattrass is one of the most popular and richest Sport Shooter who was born on November 5, 1950 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Susan “Sue” Marie Nattrass O.C. (born on November 5, 1950) is a Canadian trap shooter as well as a medical researcher on osteoporosis. The place she was raised was Medicine Hat, Alberta. She competed at the elite international level from the 1970s to the 2010s, Nattrass made multiple appearances, playing in either traps or double traps during Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Pan American Games. Nattrass is a multiple World Champion and repeat medalist at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships as well as the Pan American Games. She was the flag-bearer in Canada in the 2007 Pan American Games (and a gold medalist) and also at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

She was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1981. won with the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canadian Athlete of the Year. She also was named into an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was also named an awardee from the Vanier Award for Outstanding Young Canadians.

Since 1996, Nattrass has lived on Vashon Island near Seattle. She moved there when she joined the Pacific Medical Center as a medical researcher in September 1996. 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.

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.

The 1976 Summer Olympics she became the first female athlete in a shooting competition in the Olympics since shooting was available to all sexes up to 1992. She was awarded silver at the world championships in 2001 held in Cairo, Egypt in the trap shooting event. She placed 9th at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 6th in the 2004 Summer Olympics in women’s trap shooting.

Susan Nattrass Net Worth

Susan Nattrass is one of the richest Sport Shooter from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susan Nattrass 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The sport was first introduced by her dad Floyd Nattrass, who competed for Canada at the World Championships in 1958 and 1968, and also in the Olympics in 1964. Nattrass recalled her father’s comments about her:

Nattrass graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education at the University of Alberta in 1972 and a master’s degree in 1974. She she has been an administrator, instructor lecturer, consultant and instructor in the fields of physical education and sports psychology. Between her second and first Olympic appearances in the years 1976 and 1988 she received her doctorate from University of Alberta in 1987. University of Alberta in 1987.

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

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Susan Ranked on the list of most popular Sport Shooter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Susan Nattrass celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.