Shepherd Walton Clark is an American

United States

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 former competitive figure skater. He won the silver medal at the 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

World Junior Figure Skating Championships

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. The next season, he won the Nebelhorn Trophy

Nebelhorn Trophy

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. He won the pewter medal at the 1998 United States Figure Skating Championships

United States Figure Skating Championships

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. 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.

Competitive highlights

Event	1989-90	1990-91	1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Four Continents Championships Four Continents Figure Skating Championships The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition. The International Skating Union established it in 1999 to provide skaters representing non-European countries with a similar competition to the much older European Figure Skating Championships and a chance...										6th
U.S. Championships United States Figure Skating Championships The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often referred to informally as "Nationals".Skaters...	7th	7th	9th	5th	6th		6th	10th	4th	5th	WD		11th	WD
Skate America Skate America Skate America is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It is organized by the United States Figure Skating Association. The location changes yearly...										9th
NHK Trophy NHK Trophy The NHK Trophy is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing....							6th
Sparkassen Cup Bofrost Cup on Ice The Bofrost Cup on Ice was a figure skating competition held in Germany between 1986 and 2004. It was part of the Grand Prix series until 2003, when it was replaced by Cup of China. Following being booted out of the Grand Prix series, a new form of competition was introduced to the Bofrost Cup...									2nd
Finlandia Trophy Finlandia Trophy The Finlandia Trophy is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition, held in Finland. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating and ice dancing, although not every discipline has been included in every year...								1st
Karl Schäfer Memorial Karl Schäfer Memorial The Karl Schäfer Memorial is an annual elite senior-level figure skating competition held in Vienna, Austria. Skaters compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition is named for figure skater Karl Schäfer. The competition is usually held in...				2nd
Nebelhorn Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....	1st					2nd

• WD = Withdrew

External links

• Figure skating corner profile
• Tracings.net profile