Audrey Freyja Clarke

Audrey Freyja Clarke
Audrey Freyja Clarke, National Champion 2008
Personal information
Full name	Audrey Freyja Clarke
Country represented	Iceland
Born	(1987-12-13) December 13, 1987 (age 33)
Home town	Akureyri, Iceland
Residence	Akureyri, Iceland
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Coach	Iveta Reitmeyerova, Helga Margrét Clarke
Former coach	Sanna-Maija Wiksten , Leena-Kaisa Viitanen , Margareth O´Neill
Choreographer	Helga Margrét Clarke, Audrey Freyja Clarke
Former choreographer	Sanna Maija Wiksten
Skating club	Akureyri Skating Club
Began skating	1997
Retired	2011
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	52.68 2005 JGP Poland
Short program	18.70 2005 JGP Poland
Free skate	33.98 2005 JGP Poland

Audrey Freyja Clarke is a retired Icelandic figure skater. She is a multiple Icelandic National Champion where her reign lasted eight years only missing out one year where she did not compete.

Personal life[]

Audrey Freyja Clarke was born December 13, 1987 in Akureyri, Iceland, as the youngest of three sisters. Her sister Helga Margrét Clarke also skated and was the 2001 junior national champion^[1] and later coached.

The sisters, Audrey Freyja and Helga Margrét, formed a musical duet called Sister Sister which was active in 2013-2015 and released one CD^[2] where Audrey Freyja was the lead singer and Helga Margrét played piano and sang. Audrey Freyja was also a contestant on the Icelandic version of The Voice in 2015.^[3]

In 2011 she graduated as a physical therapist from the University of Iceland.^[4]

She was the national Curling champion in 2004 with Ísmeistarar from Akureyri.^[5]

Career[]

Audrey Freyja started skating at the age of 10 in Akureyri and was early on coached by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen (Mimmi) and Sanna-Maija Wiksten, and later by Iveta Reitmeyerova. During the summer months she trained in Nottingham, England, and in Belfast, Northern Ireland with Margaret O´Neill.^[6] Audrey was also coached for several years by her sister Helga Margrét.

She was the second skater to represent Iceland at ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed 35th at the 2005–2006 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Gdańsk, Poland.^[7]

She represented Iceland at five Nordic Championships in junior from 2003-2007 with her best placement being 16th in 2007.^[8]

She was the first senior skater in 2009 to represent Iceland at the Reykjavík International Games where she earned silver.^[9]

She was elected skater of the year five times for the years 2003-2007 by the Icelandic Skating Association and is the skater who has earned the title most often.

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  Audrey Freyja Clarke Skater of the year 2007

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