Mark Beretta

Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966. He was educated at St Joseph's College and graduated from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, with an engineering degree.

Originally a water-skier, Beretta was a 10-times Australian champion of the sport. He began his media career on Geelong radio station 3GL in 1989, before moving to Triple M Melbourne. Beretta quickly rose up through the ranks of sport broadcasting in Australia through his National Basketball League reports on Network Ten, and in 1995 the Seven Network signed him to a sports reporting role, which he continues today on Sunrise and Seven Early News. Beretta is a fill in for David Koch on Sunrise when he is absent.

In July 2008, Beretta began presenting Seven Early News sport alongside Natalie Barr at 5.30 am, which leads into Sunrise, where he is still the sports presenter.[1] Beretta joined with Tom Williams to host Rexona Australia's Greatest Athlete, in 2010. In 2011, he again hosted the show, this time alongside dual international Wendell Sailor.

In October 2010, Beretta released his book The Riders - Australia's Motorcycle Champions through publisher HarperCollins. The Riders offers an insider's view of the world of motorcycle racing, with a collection of stories on 24 of Australia's greatest motorbike champions.

Mark formerly co-hosted Sunrise with former Nine News presenter and current Today host Georgie Gardner from 2000 to 2002. From 2002 to mid-2004 he moved to presenting the sport on Seven News in Sydney.

Beretta hosted the coverage of the 1998 Nagano, 2000 Sydney and 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games, as well as the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.

In 2006, Beretta was the host of Seven Network's quiz show, The Master, which originally ran on Wednesday nights at 8:30 pm (later moved to Monday nights at 7:30 pm during the non-ratings season).

From 2007 until 2014, Beretta was part of the Seven Network's V8 Supercar commentary team, working alongside Matthew White, Neil Crompton, Mark Skaife and Mark Larkham.

Beretta is also a fill in presenter for Larry Emdur on The Morning Show and he is also a fill in sport presenter on Seven News in Sydney. In 2013, Beretta hosted Seven's coverage of the Australian Open.

Mark Beretta 2010

Beretta is married and has two children.

In 2010, he completed a 1,400 km Tour de Cure bike ride from Sydney to Mooloolaba over ten days, which raised $1.8 million to help find a cure for cancer. He also completed the 2011 Tour De Cure ride over 1,400 km from Sydney to Melbourne, raising over $2 million for cancer research and treatment. In 2011, he was appointed to the board of Tour De Cure.[2] Beretta completed his third Tour de Cure ride in 2012, covering the longest ever distance of 1,656 km, from Brisbane to Mission Beach, in 10 days to raise over $2.2 million for cancer research, treatment and prevention.

He won his first Australian water ski championship in the Junior Boys Jump event in 1980, at Glenelg in Adelaide.

Beretta represented Victoria for 16 years, winning 10 Australian water ski championships.

Beretta was part of the Water Ski Show at World Expo 88 in Brisbane.

Beretta coached water skiing in the US and Japan. He was coach of the Japanese Team in 1989.

After graduating from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, he worked for BHP and Honeywell.

He is an Ambassador for the RAISE Foundation, which assists young people in crisis.

Beretta is also an Ambassador for the Fight Cancer Foundation, and the Australian Paramedic Support Foundation.

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