Shepherd Clark

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shepherd Clark
Occupation	Figure Skater
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1971(1971-03-01)
Age	53
Birthplace	Atlanta
Country	United States
Birth City	Georgia
Horoscope	Pisces

Shepherd Clark Biography

Shepherd Clark is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on March 1, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Shepherd Walton Clark (born March 1st 1971) is an American figure skater who is competitive and the current World Figure Champion of The World Figure Sport Society. He won the World Figure Championship title, winning the title of World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion for the year 2019. World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion and his overall World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion. Clark holds 6 World Figure Sport world championship titles and two silver medals which makes Clark the highest-ranked figure skater ever in World Figure Sport history. Clark is the only skater to be a participant in the entire the five World Figure Championships, 2015-2019. Clark is the sole person to hold the World Figure title, to be awarded the double Figure & Fancy title, and the first person to defend both championships within World Figure Sport history. Clark is the first and the only one to have ever won three World Figure Championships titles. His figures were the highest scores ever recorded in the year the year 2019, with 7 “World Class 6” scores at the 2019 Championships in Vail.

The year 1996 was the time he was his first Finlandia Trophy champion, the first American ever to be awarded the trophy. He also was his 1998 U.S. national pewter medalist (4th place) and also won 7 sectional championships. He was also the 1999 US Olympic Team Alternate (reserve skater) and also both in 1999 and 1998. World Figure Skating Team Alternate. As of 1999, Clark was 6th in the inaugural Four Continents Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia; this was the top U.S. finish in the male event of the year.

In August 2015, and December 2016, Clark won the silver medal in men’s figures at the World Figure Championship & Figure Festival in Lake Placid, New York. He proceeded to win the gold medal in 2017, 2018, and 2019 setting a world record by winning a total of five World Figure & Fancy Skating medals (two silver and three gold). In 2017, the gold medal was presented to him by Dorothy Hamill, the 1976 US National, Olympic, and World Champion. Clark is also the 2017 World Fancy Skating Champion, which is a blend of figure composition and artistic free skating. His gold medal was presented by Barbara Wagner, the 1960 Olympic Pairs Figure Skating Champion. In 2019, Shepherd Clark’s gold medal was presented by Donald Jackson, of Canada, a World Champion and the first skater to land the Triple Lutz jump. Mr. Clark is currently the most decorated skater of figures and fancy skating on record with the World Figure Sport Society, and he is the first skater who has earned the dual title of “World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion”.

From 2015–2019, Clark participated in the annual World Figure Championship, hosted by the World Figure Sport Society. These events are known to include the most difficult of Olympic figures, World Championship figures, and creative figures of skating’s past, while providing a stage for sculptural artistic skating, where edge quality and positions are valued above numbers of rotations on skating jumps. Men’s special figures were contested in 1908 at the Summer Olympic Games in London, the first time that figure skating had ever been included in the Olympics. Nikolai Panin of the Russian Empire won the Olympic gold medal that year, becoming the first Winter Olympic sport champion. In 2019, Mr. Clark earned the highest score in World Figure Sport history, the highest, “World Class 6”, essentially a perfect mark in World Figure Sport, and which Mr. Clark is the only skater to have merited from 2015 through the 2019 World Figure & Fancy Skating Championships.

Clark has been featured in motion films such as “Ice Pawn”, produced in 1990. He also appeared in books like Zero Tollerance by Toller Cranston as well as The Sweater book by Stephen Mosher An assemblage of Hollywood artists, art and entertainment celebrities from all over the world and the biographical account of Trixi Schuba The 1974 Olympic Figure Skating Champion known for her figure savvy. He is in the film of Christine Brennan’s Little Girls In Pretty Boxes and is referred to as a jewelry designer during an event in The Olympic Training Center. Clark has also appeared on numerous TV shows of figure skating contests and exhibitions.

Shepherd Clark Net Worth

Shepherd Clark is one of the richest Figure Skater from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shepherd Clark 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Clark was coach under the guidance of Slavka Button, and Diane Agle in Boston, Massachusetts. In December 1987 at the age of sixteen, he was 4th in the 1988 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and was awarded his silver prize at the 1989 Junior Worlds the following year. He took bronze at 1994’s Nations Cup, placing second to Elvis Stojko, who was the current ISU World Figure Skating Champion.

Clark was his 1989 World Junior silver medalist, the 1989 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 1994 Nations Cup silver medalist, and 1997 Finlandia Trophy champion. Clark was the first figure skater who mastered the triple lutz/triple loop combination during competition. Alongside being a highly successful figure skater, he’s also a jewelry designer and a jewel historian. The late Mr. Clark is the only skater from the world who has ever won an award at the ISU, International Skating Union World Championships or equivalent event and also a WFS, World Figure Sport event. Two of these events included The 1989 World Junior Championships in which Clark. Clark won the silver medal and The 2015-2019 World Figure Championships, where Mr. Clark won two silvers and five gold medals, which is the record for the event.

Clark is an artist of jewel design and of jeweled art objects, and also a jewel historian. In 2003, Clark is believed to have been the first skater to wear real gemstones on a skating costume, as a way to promote his jewelry designing. He is an entrepreneur in various industries, and known for working with charities and ministries. He is also known to be a cat lover; he has used cats in his promotional media, and has found adoption homes for rescued cats and kittens.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Shepherd Clark Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Shepherd Ranked on the list of most popular Figure Skater. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shepherd Clark celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.