Michael Clarke (skier)

Michael Andrew Clarke
1989 Junior World Mogul Champion
Born24 August 1970
Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia
Ski clubAustralian Freestyle Ski Team 1989/1994

Michael Andrew Clarke (born 24 August 1970 in Melbourne, Australia) is a former Australian mogul skier. He won the Junior World Mogul Championships in 1989, Australia's first ever skiing world championship win. Not just Australia's first skiing world champion but Australia's first world champion in any of the winter Olympic sports.

From Falls Creek, Clarke, won the mogul event at the junior world championships in Sälen [sæːlen] locality Sweden. The only other Australian to win a world championship skiing medal was Malcolm Milne, who won a downhill bronze in 1967.

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