Name: Lauryn Annyn Mark
Occupation: Company Director - Corporate Shooting Stars
Sport: Clay Target Shooting
Event: Skeet
Sponsor: Beretta
Email: lauryn@russellmark.com.au

Major International Results:
1998 World Cup Grand Prix Women’s Bronze Medal – USA
1999 Australian Grand Prix Women’s Champion – Brisbane
1999 United States National Open Women’s Champion
1999 Australian National Open Women’s Champion
2000 Australian Grand Prix Women’s Champion – Brisbane
2000 World Cup Finalist – Sydney
2000 World Cup Finalist – Italy
2000 World Cup Finalist – Cyprusu
2001 Australian Grand Prix Open Champion – Brisbane
2001 World Cup Finalist – Seoul
2001 World Cup Finalist – Qatar
2001 Australian National Open Women’s Champion
2002 Australian National Open Women’s Champion
2002 World Cup Grand Prix Champion – Sydney
2002 Commonwealth Games Pairs Champion – Manchester
2002 Commonwealth Games Champion – Manchester
2003 Australian National Women's Champion
2003 World Cup Finalist – Perth
2003 World Cup Finalist – Granada
2003 World Cup Final Silver Medal – Rome
2004 Australian National Women's Champion
2005 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Champion - Melb

2006 Commonwealth Games Pairs Champion - Melbourne

2006 Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist - Melbourne

2008 Australian National Women's Champion

2009 Australian National Women's Champion

Summary:
In 1999 Lauryn Mark created history by becoming the youngest competitor ever to win the United States Open Women’s Skeet Championship. This win underlined the enormous potential she had shown since first competing as an eleven-year-old in her native California in the United States. Her National Championship also aroused the attention of the Worlds largest firearm manufacturer, the Italian Company Beretta, who have now signed this modern day “Annie Oakley” to a long term contract.

Lauryn’s first International competition for the United States was in 1997 at the World Championships in Peru. Since then she has competed with distinction at competitions in Italy, Spain, USA, Australia, England, Finland, Cyprus, Egypt, Korea and Qatar. Lauryn has now completed her shooting career for the USA and is now pursuing her goals as an Australian. The 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester was Lauryn’s first real test competing for her newly adopted country.  She came through with flying colors winning both the Teams and Individual Gold Medals.  In the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne she neared duplicating her performance four years earlier but after a sudden-death shoot-off for four positions she managed to secure an Individual Silver Medal and a Gold Medal in the teams event.

Her return from the Athens Olympics with a respectable fourth place finish only one target short of what was needed to shoot-off for the Olympic Silver Medal and Olympic Bronze Medal  and narrowly missing selection for the Beijing Olympic Team will no doubt spur her on to London 2012.

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