Kelly Clark

Not to be confused with Kelly Clarkson.
For the lawyer, see Kelly Clark (lawyer).
Kelly Clark

Clark in 2010
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (1983-07-26) July 26, 1983
Dover, Vermont, U.S.
Occupation Professional snowboarder

Kelly Clark (born July 26, 1983) is an American snowboarder who won halfpipe gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Biography

Clark was born in the village of West Dover, Vermont. She started snowboarding when she was 7 years old, and began competing in 1999, became a member of the US Snowboard team in 2000.

Kelly Clark trained for competitive snowboarding at Mount Snow Academy in Vermont and graduated in spring 2001. She won a gold medal for women's halfpipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics[1] and competed in the halfpipe event again in the 2006 Winter Olympics. She ended up placing fourth behind fellow Americans Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler, as well as Norwegian Kjersti Buaas. In the 2010 Vancouver Olympics Kelly won a bronze medal in the halfpipe after placing third behind American silver medalist Teter and Australian Torah Bright.

In the TTR World Tour 2007/2008 season, she recorded eight podium finishes out of 12 contest entries, with five of those as TTR Titles including the 6Star Burton European Open, the 5Star Chevrolet Grand Prix and the 6Star season-ending Roxy Chicken Jam US. In the 2008/2009 World Tour she finished the season as Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion.

In 2015 Clark received the Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award.[2]

Clark is a Christian. She now rides with a sticker on her snowboard proclaiming, "Jesus, I cannot hide my love."[3]

Competition history

Highlights of Swatch TTR 2009/2010 Season

Highlights of Swatch TTR 2008/2009 Season Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion 2008/09

Victories on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour (status: July 2010)

TTR Star Level Number of victories
6Star Event 7 victories
5Star Event 4 victories
4Star Event 2 victories

Career Highlights

See also

References

  1. Editors. "Kelley Clark". Snowboarding Programs. US Snowboarding. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  2. "2015 ESPY Awards Nominees and Winners". 6abc.com. 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  3. Kelly Clark. YouTube (2010-01-06). Retrieved on 2014-04-12.
  • McGlinchey, Thomas D. "Olympic journeys". WORLD magazine. February 13, 2010. p. 57.

External links

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