Mary Ellen Clark
Mary Ellen Clark 
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| Discipline (s) : | Artistic diving / high diving | |||||||||
| Society: | Ohio State Buckeyes | |||||||||
| Birthday: | December 25, 1962 | |||||||||
| Place of birth: | Abington, Pennsylvania | |||||||||
| Size: | 155 cm | |||||||||
| Weight: | 54 kg | |||||||||
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Mary Ellen Clark (born December 25, 1962 in Abington ) is a former American water diver . She started in artificial jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board and in 10-meter tower diving. In 1992 and 1996 she won bronze medals in diving at two consecutive Olympic Games .
Clark got into her sport early on because her mother was a diving instructor. However, her first successes came late when she trained in the respective college teams while studying at Pennsylvania State University and later at Ohio State University . She achieved a total of six medals at college championships. Her first international championship was the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis . Until then, Clark jumped mostly in artificial jumping, but she now concentrated more on diving. Her breakthrough finally came with qualifying for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . From the 10-meter tower she was able to win the bronze medal there. Clark only took part in a world championship once, she started in Rome in 1994 from the 10-meter tower and reached seventh place. After a long injury break and the unsuccessful Pan American Games in 1995 in Mar del Plata , Clark played her last international competition at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . She was able to convince again and again won the bronze medal from the 10 m tower.
Clark won a total of seven national championship titles. Since 2004 she has been working as a trainer at Amherst College , where she has already led several jumpers to the national top.
Web links
- Mary Ellen Clark in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic Spotlight: Diving's Mary Ellen Clark and Nancilea Underwood-Foster. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 6, 2013 ; accessed on February 1, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Results Mary Ellen Clark. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
- ↑ Vexed By Vertigo - US Olympic platform diver Mary Ellen Clark has been laid low by dizziness. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
- ^ Head Diving Coach Mary Ellen Clark. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
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| SURNAME | Clark, Mary Ellen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abington |