[1] Clark defended his title in The 1932 Olympic Arena and became the first in history to win eight consecutive World Figure & Fancy Skating Championships.
He won the event with all first place ordinals from all of the judges on all of the segments of the competition, which is the first time in World Figure Sport history for men or ladies.
In 2021, he also won all 16 of the segments of the competition, a unique feat that no man, or woman, had achieved in World Figure Sport’s history.
In 2017, Clark was presented the World Figure & Fancy Skating Championships’ Trophy by Lorna Brown in memory of John Curry, 1976 Olympic Champion.
His gold medal was presented by Barbara Wagner, the 1960 Olympic Pairs Figure Skating Champion.
In 2019, Shepherd Clark's gold medal was presented by Donald Jackson, of Canada, a World Champion and the first skater to land the Triple Lutz jump.
This award is presented occasionally to extraordinary people in the world of figure skating art.
[3] In the International Skating Union (ISU) figure skating events, Clark won the 1989 World Junior silver medal,[4] the 1989 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 1994 Nations Cup silver medalist, and the 1996 Finlandia Trophy champion.
Clark was coached by, and worked with, many of the world's most famous figure skating coaches, such as Carlo Fassi, Don Laws, Frank Carroll, Trixi Schuba, Tim Wood, Gary Visconti, Lynn Gagliotti, Mary Scotvold, Slavka Button and Diane Agle in Boston, Massachusetts.
He won silver at the 1994 Nations Cup, placing second to Elvis Stojko, who was the reigning ISU World Figure Skating Champion.