Clark celebrated first successes in the mid-1990s in FIS races and in the Nor-Am Cup . At the Junior World Championships , in which she competed three times, her best result was a fifth place in the 1996 downhill . Clark won his first points in the World Cup on January 18, 1997 with 29th place in the giant slalom in Zwiesel . A little later she took part in the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere , where she was 24th in the Super-G, but was eliminated in the giant slalom. In December 1997, Clark came up to the top of the world for the first time with twelfth place in the World Cup Super G in Val-d'Isère , but for the time being this was her only top 20 result in the World Cup. Within the US team, she qualified for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , where she was 18th in the combination and 28th in the downhill, but was eliminated in the Super-G. At the 1999 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , she was 16th in the downhill and 22nd in the giant slalom. At the end of the 1998/1999 season, she was twice among the fastest 20 in the World Cup.
On February 10, 2000, Clark finished ninth in the downhill from Santa Caterina for the first time in the World Cup among the top ten. After two more top 10 results in the 2000/01 World Cup season as well as good results at the World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg (ninth in the Super-G, tenth in the combined and twelfth in the downhill), she celebrated on February 24, 2001 with her first and only World Cup victory in the Lenzerheide descent, her greatest success to date. In the winter of 2001/02 , Clark achieved World Cup results similar to the previous year with several top 10 placements and a podium (third in the Super-G in St. Moritz). At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she was 12th in the downhill, 14th in the Super-G and 26th in the giant slalom.
Clark achieved his final breakthrough to the top of the world in the 2002/03 season . Although she did not manage to win, she finished on the podium in four World Cup descents (the best result was second place in Cortina d'Ampezzo ) and in the Super-G and Downhill disciplines another six times in the top ten, making her third in the Downhill World Cup, Tenth in the Super G World Cup and ninth in the overall World Cup. The highlight of the season was the 2003 World Championship in St. Moritz , where Clark won the silver medal in the Super-G, just two hundredths of a second behind Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister . In the downhill, contrary to the good World Cup results, she only came in 19th place. In the following 2003/04 season , Clark first took third place twice (including her only podium in the giant slalom) and three more times among the fastest five before she had a serious fall on January 30, 2004 on the downhill from Haus im Ennstal . She suffered cruciate ligament tears in both knees and a broken wrist. Clark had to take a six-month break and was able to start snow training again in August.
In her comeback season 2004/05 , Clark achieved results in the World Cup several times for tenth place, as well as in the 2005 World Championship , in which she was tenth in the Super-G, but did not start in the downhill. In the 2005/06 season she was able to improve especially in the Super-G. With a fourth place in Bad Kleinkirchheim , a fifth in Aspen and three other placements among the fastest twelve, she reached eighth place in the Super G World Cup and thus her best overall World Cup result in this discipline. At the 2006 Winter Olympics , Clark, who secured her seventh and final US championship title in the same year, finished 14th in the Super-G and 21st in the downhill. Clark achieved her last top 10 result on March 3, 2007 with eighth place in the downhill from Tarvisio . In total, she was among the top 15 in five World Cup races in the winter of 2006/07 . At her last major event, the 2007 World Championships in Åre , she was 15th in the downhill and 20th in the Super-G. After this season, she announced her retirement from ski racing.
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