FIVE-TIME Olympians Michael Diamond and Russell Mark headline a squad of 16 travelling to Serbia for the World Shotgun Championships next month.

Diamond has been selected to compete in the men's trap, while Mark will line up in the men's double trap, Australian International Shooting Ltd said in a statement on Wednesday.

Both men are hoping to win a place at next year's London Olympics and compete at a sixth Games, a feat achieved by only four Australians.

Equestrian rider Andrew Hoy, sailor Colin Beashel and rower James Tomkins attended six summer Games, while Colin Coates participated at six winter Olympics in speed skating.

All have carried the flag at an opening ceremony.

Diamond recently won Australia a quota place at a World Cup event in Slovenia.

"To have made one or maybe two Olympic teams is anybody's dream but to make six I would really have to pinch myself," Diamond said last month.

"That dream is now becoming a reality."

Diamond, 39, went to his first Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 and has been a fixture in the team since then.

His two gold medals came at Atlanta in 1996 and in front of a home crowd at Sydney 2000.

Diamond and Adam Vella will compete in the men's trap.

Meanwhile, the 47-year-old Mark, who won gold in the double trap at Atlanta 1996 and backed up to take silver at the same event in Sydney four years later, won the men's double trap event at an Australian tournament in Brisbane last week.

Mark was picked alongside Nicholas Kirley and Steve Haberman in the men's double trap.

Among the other selections, Suzy Balogh, Laetisha Scanlan and Catherine Skinner have been picked for the women's trap.

Australia can potentially select only one competitor for this event at London 2012.

The championships are the second last chance for Australia to secure quota places for next year's Olympic tournament.

Originally published as Olympians lead Aussie shooting squad