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Shepherd Walton Clark (born March 1, 1971) is an American competitive figure skater and the reigning World Figure Champion of The World Figure Sport Society. In 2021, he defended his World Figure Championship title, becoming The 2021 World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion, as well as the overall World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion. Clark has a total of nine World Figure Sport world championship gold medals, and two silver medals, making him the most decorated skater in World Figure Sport history, with eleven medals in total. He is also the only skater to compete in all seven World Figure Championships, 2015–2021. Clark is the only man to defend a World Figure title, to achieve the dual Figure & Fancy title, and the first to defend the dual titles in World Figure Sport history. He is the first person, and only person, to ever win five World Figure Championships Overall Titles.
His figure scores set a record for the highest ever in 2019, achieving seven "World Class 6" scores at the 2019 Championships in Vail. In 2020, Mr. Clark was awarded The World Figure Sport Lifetime Achievement Award, for his accomplishments in figure skating, including having performed the greatest number of figures at a world level than anyone in skating's history. He was also acknowledged by Guinness Book of World Records for his accomplishments in 2019. The World Figure Championships trophy is the actual skating trophy that was formerly presented to The World Professional Champion. His record scoring final figure of the 2019 World Figure Championships, "Eight Eights", is on the cover of the World Figure Sport guide book published in 2020, along with an image of The 2019 World Figure Championships Men's event podium. In 2020, an emotional Shepherd Clark, was presented with The World Figure Sport Society Suzanne Shelley Clark Award, in memory of Mr. Clark's recently deceased mother, who is known to have supported her son over a lifetime. This award is presented occasionally to unusually outstanding people in the world of figure skating art. Mr. Clark had gone from his early years struggling with very weak figures, to being recognized many years later as "The King of Figures" and as a World Champion Skating Artist, due to figures and the "Fancy Skating", the original antiquated term for "figure skating", uniting Fine, Performing, Decorative, and Recording Arts, all in one historic, ancient winter activity.
As far as mainstream figure skating goes, Clark is the 1989 World Junior silver medalist, the 1989 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 1994 Nations Cup silver medalist, and the 1996 Finlandia Trophy champion. He was the first skater to land the triple lutz / triple loop combination in competition. As well as being a successful figure skater, he is also a jeweled art designer and jewel historian. Mr. Clark is the only skater in the world to ever have achieved a medal in an ISU, International Skating Union World Championships level event, and a WFS, World Figure Sport event. These two events were The 1989 World Junior Championships where Mr. Clark won the silver medal, and the 2015-2019 World Figure Championships, where Mr. Clark won two silvers and eight gold medals, for a total of ten, the record. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Figure Sport Hall of Fame at The 2020 World Figure Championships.
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