Kelly Clark
EVENT - SNOWBOARD, HALFPIPE
HEIGHT 5'4" WEIGHT 135 lbs
OLYMPIC HIGHLIGHTS
- 2010 Olympic Winter Games - bronze medalist, halfpipe (score of 42.2)
- 2006 Olympic Winter Games - 4th halfpipe
- 2002 Olympic Winter Games - gold medalist, halfpipe
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Three time U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix overall winner (2007, 2008, 2009)
- 2009: 2nd at Winter X Games - Halfpipe
- 2009: 2nd at Burton US Open - Halfpipe
- 2008: 2nd at Winter X Games - Halfpipe
- 2007: 1st at New Zealand Open - Quarterpipe
- 2007: 2nd at New Zealand Open - Halfpipe
- 2006: 1st at Burton New Zealand Open - Quarterpipe
- 2006: 1st at Burton New Zealand Open - Halfpipepipe
- 2001 Worlds - 9th halfpipe
PERSONAL
Winning an Olympic gold medal at the age of 18 set the bar high for Kelly Clark's career in the halfpipe. But, as a natural innovator and dominant force in the sport, Clark always manages to push the envelope and top herself from one season to the next. A pair of X Games gold
medals and three Grand Prix titles later, Clark is blurring the lines between men's and women's halfpipe as she lands the tricks and scores that put her at the top. A rider who pushes the boundaries of women's halfpipe, Clark rejoined the U.S. Snowboarding roster for the 2009
season.
It was truly the year of Kelly Clark as the 2002 gold medalist locked down victories around the globe. Clark's season started with a U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix win that put her on track to winning her third overall title in a row. Once the ball was rolling, Clark went on to
finish second and first during the first two stops of the Winter Dew Tour, take silver at the winter X Games and nail down another second at the Boreal stop of the Grand Prix. Next, she led a women's sweep of the World Cup podium in the 2006 Olympic halfpipe in Italy and then
schooled the 2010 pipe at Cypress Mountain in Vancouver for another World Cup win. She iced it all by winning the final Grand Prix halfpipe in Vermont for the season title, then took second at the Burton US Open in Stratton. All in a days work for the woman who wants to take snowboarding to new heights.
FIRST TRACKS
Who would have known that a plastic Mobile Monster snowboard from K Mart would have such an impact on the world of snowboarding? Well, that's the equipment on which Clark got her start, linking turns on snow banks back in Vermont. A few years later she was enrolled in a
mountain school for her high school years and the rest is history as Clark marks herself as one of the world's best female snowboarders.
I AM
Movies, cooking, mountain biking, hanging with friends and family when she gets a minute back home in Vermont.
