{{Short description|Australian sports shooter (born 1980)}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2012}} {{MedalTableTop|medals= {{Medal|Country | {{AUS}} }} {{Medal|Sport | Women's shooting}} {{Medal|Comp|Commonwealth Games}} {{Medal|Gold | 2002 Manchester | Skeet Individual}} {{Medal|Gold | 2002 Manchester | Skeet Pairs}} {{Medal|Gold | 2006 Melbourne | Skeet Pairs}} {{Medal|Silver | 2006 Melbourne | Skeet Individual}} }}

'''Lauryn Annyn Mark''' (née '''Ogilvie''',<ref>{{cite web |title=American born clay target shooter, Victorian in skeet first |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/americanborn-shooter-victorian-in-skeet-first-20020730-gdug0v.html |website=The Age |accessdate=21 June 2020 |language=en |date=30 July 2002}}</ref> born April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, United States<ref>{{cite web|url=http://london2012.olympics.com.au/athlete/lauryn-mark |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929225725/http://london2012.olympics.com.au/athlete/lauryn-mark |date=2012 |archive-date=29 September 2012 |title=Lauryn Mark - The Inspiration of Our Nation |publisher=2012 Summer Olympics |url-status=dead }}</ref>) is an American Australian Olympic Women's Skeet shooter. Mark won a silver medal at the 2003 World Cup Final (Rome), she is a dual Olympian, finishing fourth in Women's Skeet in the 2004 Summer Olympics<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/lauryn-mark-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230300/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/lauryn-mark-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|title = Lauryn Mark at sports-reference.com|date = |accessdate = 11 December 2014|website = www.sports-reference.com|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and won three gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 1995 at Chicago, Illinois, she won the World Junior Women’s American Skeet Championship.

== Career == Lauryn Annyn Ogilvie was born on April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, to clay shooter Jon Ogilvie. She commenced shooting in 1991,<ref name="ISSF profile">{{cite web|url=https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHUSAW1504198001|title=ISSF Athlete - Lauryn Mark|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=2021-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.beretta.com/en/world-of-beretta/team-beretta/lauryn-mark/|title=Lauryn Mark - Beretta Skeet Shooter|publisher=Beretta Australia|accessdate=2021-06-03}}</ref> she won the World Junior Women’s American Skeet Title in 1995 and started formally competing internationally in June 1997 at the World Championships in Peru. She became the youngest competitor ever to win Women's Skeet in the United States Open Skeet Championship in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://goshooting.com.au/about-us/|title=Meet Our Top Guns|publisher=Go Shooting|accessdate=2021-06-03}}</ref> In 2003, she won the silver medal in the Women's Skeet event at the World Cup Final in Rome.

After moving to Australia, Lauryn Mark won eight individual Australian National Women's Skeet Championships. In 2012 she competed in her second Summer Olympics. She retired from competitive competition in 2014 and is now employed by the ISSF as a coaching lecturer and examiner for their International Coaching Academy.

In 2012, she controversially became a men's magazine cover girl when she posed for ''Zoo Weekly'' wearing a bikini in Australian Olympic Team's green-and-gold color whilst holding a Beretta double-barrel shotgun. The remuneration she received from the magazine was donated to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/shooter-lauryn-mark-stands-by-her-man-kini-20120525-1z9g0.html|title=Shooter Lauryn Mark stands by her man... kini|last=Levy|first=Megan|date=2012-05-25|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=2021-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportingshooter.com.au/news/lauryn-s-sexy-shoot|title=Lauryn's sexy shoot|last=Matheson|first=Mick|date=2012-07-18|publisher=Sport Shooter|accessdate=2021-06-03}}</ref>

Lauryn Mark was a contestant on the inaugural series of the Australian television series of ''Australian Ninja Warrior'' in 2017.

== Personal life == In 1999, Ogilvie established a corporate entertainment business, "Go Shooting" Pty. Ltd., with Australian Olympic gold medallist Russell Mark. She established the hugely successful "Go Shooting YouTube Channel" in 2018. She married Russell Mark in a surprise wedding ceremony on March 17, 2004, at a Hamilton Island beach. The couple have two children,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/sports/2006/March/sports_March507.xml&section=sports&subsection=commonwealthgames |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930210155/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Displayarticle.asp?xfile=data%2Fsports%2F2006%2FMarch%2Fsports_March507.xml&section=sports&subsection=commonwealthgames |date=21 March 2006 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |title=India dominate, Lauryn hits shooting mark |author=Reuters |author-link=Reuters |newspaper=Khaleej Times |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sierra Evelyn Mark (b. 23 June 2005) and Indiana Todd Mark (b. 29 January 2007).

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