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Kelly Clark (born July 26, 1983) is an American
snowboarder Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic ...
who won halfpipe gold at the 2002
Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...
. Clark was born in
Newport, Rhode Island Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, and northeast of New Yor ...
. She started snowboarding when she was 7 years old, began competing in 1999, and became a member of the US Snowboard team in 2000. On January 25, 2019, at the Winter X Games in Aspen, she announced her retirement from the sport.


Biography

Clark trained for competitive snowboarding a
Mount Snow Academy
in
Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
and graduated in spring 2001. She won a gold medal for women's halfpipe at the
2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...
and competed in the halfpipe event again in the
2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...
. She ended up placing fourth behind fellow Americans
Hannah Teter Hannah Teter (born January 27, 1987) is an American snowboarder. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
and Gretchen Bleiler, as well as Norwegian
Kjersti Buaas Kjersti Østgaard Buaas (born 5 January 1982) is a Norwegian snowboarder from Trondheim. She placed 4th in women's half-pipe at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. She received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in ...
. 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 th
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. Clark is based in Mammoth Lakes, California. Clark is a Christian. She rides with a sticker on her snowboard proclaiming, "Jesus, I cannot hide my love." She discusses her faith and lessons from her life as a professional snowboarder in her 2017 memoir ''Inspired''.


Awards and honors

In 2015, Clark received the Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award.


Competition history

Highlights of Swatch TTR 2009/2010 Season * 1st – Halfpipe – 5Star Burton New Zealand Open (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) * 1st – Halfpipe – 6Star Burton US Open (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) * 1st – Halfpipe – 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam US (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) Highlights of Swatch TTR 2008/2009 Season Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion 2008/09 * 3rd – Halfpipe – 5Star Burton New Zealand Open (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) * 1st – Halfpipe – 6Star Burton European Open (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) * 1st – Halfpipe – 5Star Nissan X-Trail Asian Open (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) * 2nd – Halfpipe – 6Star Burton US Open (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) * 1st – Halfpipe – 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam (Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) Victories on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour (status: July 2010) Career highlights * 2010 Winter X Games – Superpipe – 1st place * 2009
Winter Dew Tour The Dew Tour is an extreme sports circuit organized by the Adventure Sports Group, a subsidiary of American Media, LLC. History The tour was announced in late 2004, and made its debut in Louisville, KY in June 2005. The tour then made stops i ...
– Dew Cup – 1st place * 2008 Chevy Grand Prix – Tamarack – Halfpipe – 1st place * 2008 Winter X Games – Halfpipe – 2nd place * 2007 New Zealand Open – Quarterpipe – 1st place * 2007 New Zealand Open – Halfpipe – 2nd place * 2007 Burton Abominable Snow Jam – Overall – 2nd place * 2007 Burton Abominable Snow Jam – Halfpipe – 2nd place * 2006 US Grand Prix – Halfpipe – 1st pace * 2006 Burton New Zealand Open – Quarterpipe – 1st place * 2006 Burton New Zealand Open – Superpipe – 1st place * 2006 Chevrolet Grand Prix – Halfpipe – 2nd place * 2005 FIS World Cup – Halfpipe – 1st place * 2005 Grand Prix #3- Halfpipe – 2nd place


See also

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List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games A small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction ever competes in multiple Games. 849 athletes (260 women and 589 men) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Beiji ...
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Mount Snow Mount Snow (previously known as Mount Pisgah) is a mountain and ski resort in southern Vermont located in the Green Mountains. It is Vermont's southernmost big mountain, and therefore, closest to many Northeast metropolitan areas. In Septemb ...


References

* McGlinchey, Thomas D. "Olympic journeys". ''WORLD magazine''. February 13, 2010. p. 57.
Kellys Official Swatch TTR Profile
* https://www.teamusa.org/us-ski-and-snowboard/athletes/Kelly-Clark


External links

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Kelly Clark on Go211.com
Kelly's blog, photos and videos.


Kelly's U.S. Olympic Team bio

Onboard magazine interview with Kelly Clark

Shred Betties Magazine interview with Kelly Clark

EXPN Athlete Bio


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