Mark Beretta OAM
Sports Presenter & MC
Mark Beretta is the Sports Presenter on Australia’s breakfast TV show, Sunrise. ‘Beretts’ has been with Channel Seven since February 1995, and has worked across News, Sport and Entertainment.
He has presented on Seven’s coverage of 13 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, as well as Commonwealth Games, AFL, Rugby, Australian Open tennis, Sydney Hobart yacht race, Bathurst 1000, the Supercars Championship, Bathurst 12 and 24 Hour Races, World Cup Aerials, Moomba Masters, Surf League, and Seven’s Winter Sports.
Mark is a 10-times Australian Water Ski champion, a silver medalist at the Singapore International Masters, and held a U.S. record.
He is a Board member of the Tour De Cure cancer charity and has completed 16 grueling rides to raise funds for cancer research and treatment, including riding 1,700km in 10 days from Sydney to Hobart, via the Snowy Mountains. Tour De Cure has raised over $150 million for cancer research, treatment and prevention over the past 19 years.
Mark was the MC for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at Buckingham Palace, for the launch of the 2018 Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay.
He proved a favorite on the 7th series of ‘Dancing With The Stars’.
While sport has always been his first love, Mark graduated with an Engineering degree and has worked with BHP and Honeywell.
In 2021, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for charitable services to the community, through his work with Tour de Cure. He is also an Ambassador for the RAISE Foundation, a national youth mentoring charity.
Mark holds the rank of Major in the Australian Army (Reserve). He has received the ADF (Australian Defence Medal), and a Chief of Army Gold Commendation.
Most recently, he has been charged with getting his beloved sport of waterskiing into the Olympic Games as the Chair of the International Waterski and Wakeboard Federation’s Brisbane 2032 Bid Committee, a role he is bringing his trademark energy too!
Mark lives in Sydney and has two adult children, Ava and Dan, and a grandson, Arlo.
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