Kirsten Lee Clark , married Rickenbach ( born Kirsten Lee Clark-Rickenbach ; born April 23, 1977 , Raymond ) is an American alpine skier who successfully performed in downhill , super giant and giant slalom . Represented the US Alpine skiing team in 1994-2007, silver medalist at the World Championships, winner of the World Cup, seven-time champion of the American national championship, participant in three winter Olympic games.
 Kirsten Clark | |||||||||
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| Citizenship |  USA | ||||||||
| Date of Birth | April 23, 1977 (42 years old) | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Raymond , USA | ||||||||
| Growth | 167 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||
| Career | |||||||||
| Discipline | Downhill , super giant , giant slalom , combination | ||||||||
| Club | Sugarloaf mountain | ||||||||
| In the national team | 1994-2007 | ||||||||
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| Last updated: April 24, 2018 | |||||||||
Biography
Kirsten Clark was born on April 23, 1977 in Raymond , Maine , USA . She was trained in the Carrabassett Valley ski resort at the local Sugarloaf Mountain ski club.
In 1994, she became a member of the American national team and performed at the home World Junior Championships in Lake Placid. A year later, she made her World Cup debut. At the 1997 World Championships in Sestriere, she took 24th place in the super giant program.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano - she showed 28 results in downhill skiing, 18 results in combination, while in the super giant she did not finish and did not show any result.
In 1999, she performed at the home world championships in Weila , where she finished 16th in downhill and 22nd in giant slalom. Two years later, at similar competitions in St. Anton, she started in four women's disciplines at once: she became ninth in the super giant, tenth in combination, twelfth in downhill and twentieth in giant slalom. In February 2001, she won the first and only victory in the World Cup, winning the downhill at the stage in the Swiss Lenzerheide.
Being among the leaders of the US ski team, it successfully passed the selection for the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City - took 12th, 14th and 26th places in downhill, supergiant and giant slalom, respectively.
After the home Olympics, Clark remained in the main team of the American national team and continued to take part in major international competitions. So, in 2003, she visited the St. Moritz World Championship , from where she brought the silver dignity award won in the supergiant - she let forward only the titled Austrian Michael Dorfmeister . Also showed here 19 results in downhill.
In 2005, at the world championship in Bormio, she closed the top ten in the supergiant.
In 2006, she went to represent the country at the Olympic Games in Turin , where she took 21st place in downhill and 14th place in the super giant.
Subsequently, she remained an active athlete until 2007. During his sports career, Kirsten Clark a total of eight times climbed the podium of the World Cup, including one gold medal, one silver and six bronze medals on her track record. She never managed to win the Crystal Globe, but in one of the seasons she was on the downhill third. The highest position in the overall classification of all disciplines is ninth. He is, among other things, a seven-time US champion in skiing.
Links
- Kirsten Clark - Olympic Statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Kirsten Clark - statistics on the FIS website
- Kirsten Clark (English) - Page in Alpine Ski Database