Shepherd Clark
Shepherd Clark was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on March 1st, 1971 and is the Figure Skater. At the age of 53, Shepherd Clark biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 53 years old, Shepherd Clark has this physical status:
Clark was coached by, and worked with, many of the world's most famous figure skating coaches, such as Carlo and Christa Fassi, Terri Klindworth Hooper, Don Laws, Janet Champion, Tamara Moskvia, Frank Carroll, Mary Staton, Iris Bevin, Karen Cullinan, Marcia Pearce Chaffee, Tommy McGinnis, Lorraine Borman, Cathy Casey, Phillip Mills, Trixi Schuba, Tim Wood, Lorna Brown, Paula Wagener, Gary Visconti, Lynn Gagliotti, Louis Elkin, Roseanne Wager, Alex McGowan, Evy Scotvold, Mary Scotvold, Slavka Button and Diane Agle in Boston, Massachusetts. In December 1987, at the age of sixteen, he placed 4th at the 1988 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and he won the silver medal at the 1989 Junior Worlds the following year. He won silver at the 1994 Nations Cup, placing second to Elvis Stojko, who was the reigning ISU World Figure Skating Champion.
In 1996, he became the Finlandia Trophy champion, the first American ever to win this trophy. He is also the 1998 U.S. national pewter medalist (4th place) and won seven sectional titles. He was the 1998 US Olympic Team Alternate (reserve skater), and the 1998 and 1999 World Figure Skating Team Alternate. In 1999, Clark placed 6th at the first Four Continents Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia; this was the highest U.S. finish in the men's event that year.
From 2015–2020, Clark participated in the annual World Figure Championship, hosted by the World Figure Sport Society. These events are known to include the most difficult of Olympic figures, World Championship figures, and creative figures of skating's past, while providing a stage for sculptural artistic skating, where edge quality and positions are valued above numbers of rotations on skating jumps. Men's special figures were contested in 1908 at the Summer Olympic Games in London, the first time that figure skating had ever been included in the Olympics. Nikolai Panin of the Russian Empire won the Olympic gold medal that year, becoming the first Winter Olympic sport champion. In 2019, Mr. Clark earned the highest score in World Figure Sport history, the highest, "World Class 6", essentially a perfect mark in World Figure Sport, and which Mr. Clark is the only skater to have merited from 2015 through the 2022 World Figure & Fancy Skating Championships.
In August 2015, and December 2016, Clark won the silver medal in men's figures at the World Figure Championship & Figure Festival in Lake Placid, New York. He proceeded to win the gold medal in 2017, 2018, and 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 setting a world record by winning a total of six World Figure & Fancy Skating medals (two silver and six gold). In 2017, the gold medal was presented to him by Dorothy Hamill, the 1976 US National, Olympic, and World Champion. Clark is also the 2017 World Fancy Skating Champion, which is a blend of figure composition and artistic free skating. His gold medal was presented by Barbara Wagner, the 1960 Olympic Pairs Figure Skating Champion. In 2019, Shepherd Clark's gold medal was presented by Donald Jackson, of Canada, a World Champion and the first skater to land the Triple Lutz jump. Mr. Clark is currently the most decorated skater of Figures and Fancy skating on record with the World Figure Sport Society, and he is the first skater who has earned the dual title of "World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion".