Lauren Chantel Burns OAM (born 8 June 1974) is an Australian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion.
[3] Following her competitive taekwondo career, she has been involved in a range of activities, including motivational speaking and community work.
[9] Her younger brother, Michael (then aged 7), became interested in martial arts after watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and started learning taekwondo.
[18] Burns won a gold medal in taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics,[19] in a tournament marked by controversial judging at times.
[28][29] She also supports the Red Dust Role Models community project and is an ambassador for charitable organisation World Vision.