| Shepherd Clark |
| Personal information |
| Country represented |
United States |
| Born |
March 1, 1971 (1971-03-01) (age 41) |
| Skating club |
SC of Boston |
| Retired |
2003 |
Shepherd Walton Clark (born March 1, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American former competitive figure skater. He won the silver medal at the 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. The next season, he won the Nebelhorn Trophy. He won the pewter medal at the 1998 United States Figure Skating Championships. Mr. Clark, "Shepherd" throughout his record long Olympic Eligible career has competed and performed all over the world, and is believed to be the first skater to land the triple-lutz / triple-loop combination, which he could land at just 15 years of age. Irina Sluzkaia is the first woman to perform this extremely difficult combination. He is also known to have landed the triple axel-triple loop and developed the quadruple loop jump, which he would typically and slightly "two-foot" on the landing. To date, no skater has landed the extremely difficult quadruple loop jump cleanly in competition.
Shepherd has performed all over the world with the world's most famous skaters and has been known to perform in costumes using real gems. He is also known to be an extremely unusual jeweler and artist, with an intense sense of humor and love of cats. He travels to Hollywood and Los Angeles on business and is becoming known in the entertainment realm as a unique person, or a "singularity", as he has been knighted by the world's oldest order, and is known to design and create business, technology, entertainment, and retail campaigns that help to generate funds for the poor and veterans. He is intensely active in many various charitable causes and is emerging as a new kind of leader or "shepherd" who has an inspirational business, ministry and charity promoting hope. His media experience is primarily in television, yet he has some experience with motion pictures, special events, investitures, appeared in books about unusual people, and in music videos. His jeweled lifestyle is humorous, fashionable, dramatic, eccentric, and unique. In some circles he is called by various monikers, such as, "The Jeweled Knight", "Iceman", "Catman", "The Jeweled Artist", and others. He is also known as an entrepreneur in various spheres of industry, having a reputation for creative, strategic idea development, and overcoming various challenging obstacles.
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| Name |
Clark, Shepherd |
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| Short description |
Figure skater |
| Date of birth |
March 1, 1971 |
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