Kirsten Clark

Kirsten Lee Clark ( born April 23, 1977 in Raymond, Maine) is a former American alpine skier. Your strongest disciplines were the downhill and super -G, in addition they also drove in the giant slalom. Clark won the silver medal in the Super - G at the 2003 World Cup, and reached the World Cup a win and seven podium finishes.

Career

Initial successes celebrated Clark mid -1990s in FIS races and in the Nor- Am Cup. In World Junior Championships, where she took part three times, their best result was a fifth place in the downhill in 1996., The first points in the World Cup won Clark on January 18, 1997 in 29th place in the giant slalom in Zwiesel. A little later she participated in the World Cup 1997 in Sestriere, where she was 24th in super- G, but was eliminated in the giant slalom. In December 1997, Clark came up with the twelfth place in the World Cup Super - G in Val d'Isere for the first time to the world class approach, but for now this was their only top 20 results in the World Cup. Within the U.S. team, she qualified for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, where she finished 18th in the combination and 28th in the downhill, but was eliminated in the Super -G. In the 1999 World Cup in Vail / Beaver Creek, she was 16th in the downhill and 22 in the giant slalom. At the end of the 1998/1999 season she was also in the World Cup again twice into the top 20

On 10 February 2000 Clark drove in ninth departure of Santa Caterina in the World Cup for the first time into the top ten. After two more top-10 results in the World Cup season 2000 /2001 and good results at the World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg (ninth in Super -G, Tenth and Twelfth in the combination in the downhill ) celebrated on 24 February 2001 with their first and only World Cup victory in the departure of Lenzerheide their greatest success until then. In winter 2001/2002 Clark scored with several top - 10 finishes and one podium finish ( third in the Super -G in St. Moritz ) World Cup results similar to last year. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, she was 12th in the downhill, 14th in super-G and 26th in the giant slalom.

The final breakthrough of the world leaders succeeded Clark in the season 2002/2003. Although she managed to not win, but she drove in four World Cup downhill on the podium ( best result was second place in Cortina d' Ampezzo ), and in the disciplines of Super - G and downhill further six times into the top ten, making them third in the downhill World Cup Tenth in the Super- G World Cup and ninth in the overall World Cup was. The highlight of the season was the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz, where Clark with a gap of just two hundredths of a second on the Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister won the silver medal in the Super -G. On the descent, they came to meet the good World Cup results only to 19th place. The following season, 2003/2004 Clark first went twice to third place ( including their only podium finish in the giant slalom ) and a further three times into the top five before they seriously came in the departure of the house in the Enns Valley on 30 January 2004 to fall. She suffered ACL tears in both knees and a fracture of the wrist. Clark was sidelined six months and could begin again in August with the snow training.

In their comeback season 2004/2005 Clark reached the World Cup more than once results to tenth place, just at the World Championship in 2005, where she was tenth in the super -G, in the downhill but did not start. In the season 2005/2006 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 its best World Cup overall results in this discipline. At the 2006 Winter Olympics took Clark, who secured their seventh and last U.S. championship titles in the same year, on the 14th place in the Super -G and rank 21 in the downhill. Her last top 10 result reached Clark on March 3, 2007, eighth in the departure of Tarvisio. Overall, they drove in winter 2006/2007 in five World Cup races in the top 15 In their last major event, the 2007 World Championships in Åre, she was 15th in the downhill and 20th in super -G. After this season, she announced her resignation from ski racing.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Nagano 1998: 18 Combination 28 departure
  • Salt Lake City 2002: 12 Downhill, 14 Super -G, Giant Slalom 26
  • Turin 2006: 14 Super -G, downhill 21

World Championships

  • Sestriere 1997: 24 Super -G
  • Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 16 Downhill, Giant Slalom 22
  • St. Anton 2001: 9 Super -G, 10 combination, 12 downhill, giant slalom 20
  • St. Moritz 2003: 2 Super -G, downhill 19
  • Bormio 2005: 10 Super -G
  • Åre 2007: 15 Downhill, 20 Super -G

Junior World Championships

  • Lake Placid 1994: 26 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 31, 35 departure
  • Voss 1995: 28 Giant Slalom, Slalom 37th, 38th departure
  • High -Ybrig 1996: 5th exit, 8 Giant Slalom, Super -G 10

World Cup

  • 8 podiums, including one victory:

U.S. Championships

  • 7-times U.S. Champion: 5x Departure ( 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2006)
  • 1x Super -G ( 2000)
  • 1x Combination ( 1996)
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997 Nagano, Nagano FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 Vail (Colorado) Beaver Creek Resort Santa Caterina di Valfurva 2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 Aspen (Colorado) 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
477426
de