Kelly Clark

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Kelly Clark Snowboard
Kelly Clark
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday July 26, 1983
place of birth Newport , Rhode Island ,  USAUnited StatesUnited States 
size 163 cm
Weight 61 kg
Career
society Mount Snow Ski Club
status resigned
End of career January 25, 2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
X-Games 9 × gold 6 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2002 Salt Lake City halfpipe
bronze 2010 Vancouver halfpipe
bronze 2014 Sochi halfpipe
Snowboard world championships
gold 2012 Oslo halfpipe
Winter X Games logo X-Games
gold 2002 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2003 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2004 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2006 Aspen Super pipe
bronze 2008 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2009 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2010 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2011 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2011 Tignes Super pipe
gold 2012 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2012 Tignes Super pipe
gold 2013 Aspen Super pipe
gold 2013 Tignes Super pipe
gold 2014 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2015 Aspen Super pipe
silver 2016 Oslo Super pipe
FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships
gold 2000 Berchtesgaden halfpipe
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 17, 2000
 World Cup victories 13
 Overall World Cup 31st ( 2008/09 )
 Freestyle World Cup 1. ( 2012/13 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 1. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 13 3 6th
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 Overall rating 01. (2008/09)
 Halfpipe rating 1. (2012/13, 2013/14)
last change: October 21, 2018

Kelly Clark (born July 26, 1983 in Newport , Rhode Island ) is a former American professional snowboarder and Olympic champion of the 2002 Winter Olympics .

Career

Kelly Clark is part of a new wave of halfpipe riders who are increasing the level and difficulty of the tricks . At the age of 16, she joined the Burton team in 1999 to train with the entire US team. From 2001 she was among the best in the world in the halfpipe. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Clark won the gold medal in the halfpipe competition at the age of 18, making him the first woman to win a gold medal in this discipline. Four years later, she finished fourth at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Bardonecchia . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she won the bronze medal in the halfpipe.

Clark is also a regular participant in halfpipe events on the TTR World Snowboard Tour . Her greatest success on the tour so far she celebrated in the 2008/09 season, which she finished as Swatch TTR World Tour Champion. In the course of her career on the TTR Tour, Clark has already achieved many victories, including the 6Star Burton European Open, the 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam, the 5Star Burton New Zealand Open and the 6Star Burton US Open.

After the Olympic Games, she stayed on the TTR tour for the time being. It was not until December 2010 that Clark started again in an FIS competition in the NorAm Cup. In Copper she finished second and was on the podium again. After winning gold in the Superpipe at the Winter X Games and Winter X Games Europe in 2011, she also won the NorAm Cup in Copper in December.

In August 2012, Clark won another World Cup in Cardrona . She celebrated another victory in the 2012/13 season in Sochi in February , which was considered the dress rehearsal for the 2014 Winter Olympics . After she started the season with wins at Cardrona and Copper Mountain, she was also one of the favorites in the halfpipe at the games. In the end, as in 2010, she won bronze. In the 2014/15 Snowboard World Cup , Clark only started at the World Cups in Cardrona and on Copper Mountain and was able to win both of them. In the 2015/16 season , however, she only started with a poor sixth place on the Cardrona halfpipe. In January 2016, she won the US Snowboarding Grand Prix and Snowboard World Cup in Mammoth on the halfpipe and came fifth in the superpipe competition at the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen . The following month she finished third at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix and Snowboard World Cup in Park City and won the silver medal on the superpipe at the X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo . In early March 2016 she was third in the halfpipe competition at the Burton US Open in Vail and at the end of the season she finished fifth in the Freestyle World Cup and second in the Halfpipe World Cup. In the 2016/17 season she triumphed at the World Cup in Pyeongchang and at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix and World Cup in Mammoth , finishing eighth in the Freestyle World Cup and second place in the Halfpipe World Cup. She also finished fourth in the 2017 Winter X Games and sixth in the Burton US Open. After finishing second at the World Cup in Cardrona at the beginning of the 2017/18 season, she came third at the World Cup in Copper Mountain, second at the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge and first at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Mammoth. She achieved 12th place in the Freestyle World Cup and sixth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. She finished fourth at the 2018 Winter X Games and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. She ended her active career on January 25, 2019.

successes

2000/01 season

2001/02 season

2002/03 season

2003/04 season

2004/05 season

2005/06 season

2006/07 season

  • 1st place - Burton New Zealand Open in Snow Park , Halfpipe
  • 1st place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Breckenridge , halfpipe
  • 1st place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix at Mount Bachelor , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Burton US Open at Stratton Mountain , Halfpipe
  • 2nd place - X-Trail Nippon Open in Bandai , Slopestyle
  • 3rd place - World Superpipe Championships in Park City , Halfpipe

2007/08 season

  • 1st place - Australian Open in Perisher Blue , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Burton European Open in Laax , halfpipe
  • 1st place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Tamarack , halfpipe
  • 1st place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Killington , Halfpipe
  • 2nd place - Abominable Snowjam on Mount Hood , halfpipe
  • 2nd place - Burton New Zealand Open in Snow Park , Halfpipe
  • 2nd place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Breckenridge , halfpipe
  • 2nd place - World Superpipe Championships in Park City , Halfpipe
  • 2nd place - Burton US Open at Stratton Mountain , Halfpipe
  • 3rd place - Winter X Games 2008 in Aspen , Halfpipe
  • 3rd place - overall ranking World Snowboard Tour

2008/09 season

2009/10 season

2010/11 season

  • 1st place - Burton New Zealand Open in Cardrona , halfpipe
  • 1st place - O´Neill Evolution in Davos , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Burton European Open in Laax , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Winter Dew Tour in Killington , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Winter X Games 2011 in Aspen , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Burton Canadian Open in Calgary , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Winter Dew Tour in Ogden , halfpipe
  • 1st place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Mammoth , halfpipe
  • 1st place - Burton US Open at Stratton Mountain , Halfpipe
  • 1st place - Winter-X-Games-Europe 2011 in Tignes , halfpipe
  • 2nd place - US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Copper Mountain , Halfpipe
  • 2nd place - overall ranking of the World Snowboard Tour

2011/12 season

2012/13 season

2013/14 season

2014/15 season

2015/16 season

Season 2016/17

Season 2017/18

Private

Kelly Clark is the daughter of Cathy and Terry Clark and the sister of Tim Clark. During her high school years, Clark played primarily tennis and soccer . Before switching to snowboarding , she was already enthusiastic about skiing . In the summer, when Clark is not training for competitions, she can often be seen surfing .

Web links

Commons : Kelly Clark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kelly Clark - Whitelines Snowboarding. In: whitelines.com. November 4, 2015, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ US snowboarder Kelly Clark Defying Odds at Age 30. In: voanews.com. February 13, 2014, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Snowboard: US Olympic champion Clark retired after 20 years of career. In: tt.com. January 25, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Kelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American snowboarder
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport , Rhode Island , United States