Lauryn Mark

Lauryn Mark
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Women's shooting
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester Skeet Individual
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester Skeet Pairs
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne Skeet Pairs
Silver medal – second place 2006 Melbourne Skeet Individual

Lauryn Annyn Mark (née Ogilvie,[1] born April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, United States[2]) is an American Australian Olympic Women's Skeet shooter. She finished fourth in Women's Skeet in the 2004 Summer Olympics[3] and won three gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

In March 2022 she was appointed for one year by the Sports Authority of India to be the High Performance Manager for the National Rifle Association of India's Shotgun Team where she was publicly recognised and acclaimed for designing and implementing the selection policy that resurrected Indian Shotgun Shooting and qualified multiple athletes into the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. She resigned from this position on May 28th, 2023 and joined the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association in July 6th, 2023 as the High Performance Manager and also a dual role as the National Women's Skeet Coach for the remainder of the 2023 season. Mark resigned her position on October 31st, 2023, the day after Qatar qualified the Men's Trap team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. On March 6th, 2024, Shooting Australia announced that Mark would become the Skeet coach of the Olympic Shotgun Squad and would prepare them for the forthcoming 2024 Olympics in July.

  1. ^ "American born clay target shooter, Victorian in skeet first". The Age. 30 July 2002. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Lauryn Mark - The Inspiration of Our Nation". 2012 Summer Olympics. 2012. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Lauryn Mark at sports-reference.com". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2014.