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| Nickname(s) | Textbook, Tom Cat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 2, 1972 San Diego, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 150 lb (68 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Melissa Clowers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle motocross (FMX) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Big Air, Step Up, Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tommy Clowers (born September 2, 1972) is an American professional FMX (Freestyle motocross) rider.
Clowers was born in San Diego, California on September 2, 1972.
In 1999, Clowers snaped his wrist in practice at the X Games (X Games V). In 2000, Clowers has won 3 Step Up Wins. Clowers has broken his collarbone in a Step Up event. Clowers has hold the World Record for Step Up is 25 ft.
Tommy Clowers started riding motocross (Moto X) when he was just 8 years old. A few months later, he starting competing. In the 10 years that followed he won 14 amateur racing titles. When turned 18, he also turn pro. Clowers has been a huge name in freestyle since 1990. Tommy Clowers holding up the championship belt for winning the WFA World Championship in 2000. “Tomcat” was a leading 125cc Supercross racer in the early-to-mid 1990s. Then he later became one of the original stars of Freestyle Motocross in the early 2000s.
At the 2000 X Games (X Games VI), in San Francisco, California, Clowers achieved the highest jump in Moto X Step Up, 10.67 m (39 ft), or (35 ft) and became the first ever Step Up Champion and X Games Gold medalist, and than followed up with the Silver medal in Moto X Freestyle (Freestyle motocross).[ citation needed ] At the 2001 Winter X Games V, in Mount Snow, Vermont, Clowers pulled off the "Cat Nac" Indian Air in the debut of Moto X Big Air, and wins the Silver medal in the event. At the 2001 X Games (X Games VII), Clowers finish 4th in Moto X Freestyle, and then he battle with Travis Pastrana in Moto X Step Up, as a result, Clowers cleared 33 ft and winning his second Moto X Step Up Gold medal and Pastrana would win his first ever Moto X Step Up medal, the Silver medal. At the 2002 Winter X Games VI, in Aspen, Colorado, Clowers pulled off the same trick which is the "Cat Nac" Indian Air, and winning his second Winter X Games medal, the Bronze medal. At the 2002 X Games (X Games VIII), Clowers finished 5th in Moto X Freestyle, and than followed up winning his 3rd straight Moto X Step Up Gold medal, after clearing 34 ft and also beat Mike Metzger and Brian Deegan.
At the 2000 Gravity Games, Clowers finished 4th in Moto X Freestyle in Providence, Rhode Island, then in 2001 he finished 3rd, winning a Gravity Games medal, the Bronze medal in Moto X Freestyle in Providence, Rhode Island and in 2002 he finished 5th in Moto X Freestyle in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was undefeated in Moto X Step Up for three years in a row in 2000, 2001 and 2002, before a young rookie FMX rider Matt Buyten from Minden, Nevada, and defeated Clowers for the Gold medal at X Games IX (2003), and Clowers has won his first ever Silver medal in the Step Up event. At the 2004 X Games (X Games X), Clowers would finished 3rd in Moto X Step Up, Buyten would finished 2nd and Jeremy McGrath would win his first ever X Games Moto X Step Up Gold medal. At the 2005 X Games (X Games XI), Clowers was riding the Yamaha YZ250, and he and Buyten went face to face from the 2003 X Games, then Clowers would pull off an amazing come back and beat Buyten after clearing 32 ft, and winning his 4th Moto X Step Up Gold medal. Also Clowers has competing at the X Games from 2000 to 2011. Clowers' Sponsorship is Alpinstars, Red Bull and Smith, and Clowers is truly a legend, and he is the Master of Step Up. But now Clowers is retired as FMX rider. Clowers has 8 X Games medals overall (6 medals in XG, 2 medals in WX). [1]
Clowers pulls off some tricks, first he invented the "Catwalk", the running along side of it in the air. Next he pulls off the "Cat Nac" named after the him.
Clowers lives in Ramona, California.
| YEAR | X GAMES | EVENTS | RANK | MEDAL |
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| 2000 | Summer X Games VI | Moto X Step Up | 1st |  |
| 2000 | Summer X Games VI | Moto X Freestyle | 2nd |  |
| 2001 | Winter X Games V | Moto X Big Air | 2nd | |
| 2001 | Summer X Games VII | Moto X Freestyle | 4th | |
| 2001 | Summer X Games VII | Moto X Step Up | 1st | |
| 2001 | Summer X Games VII | Moto X Big Air | ||
| 2002 | Winter X Games VI | Moto X Big Air | 3rd |  |
| 2002 | Summer X Games VIII | Moto X Freestyle | 5th | |
| 2002 | Summer X Games VIII | Moto X Step Up | 1st | |
| 2002 | Summer X Games VIII | Moto X Big Air | ||
| 2003 | Summer X Games IX | Moto X Step Up | 2nd | |
| 2004 | Summer X Games X | Moto X Step Up | 3rd | |
| 2005 | Summer X Games XI | Moto X Step Up | 1st | |
| 2006 | Summer X Games XII | Moto X Step Up | 5th | |
| 2007 | Summer X Games XIII | Moto X Step Up | 4th | |
| 2008 | Summer X Games XIV | Moto X Step Up | 3rd | |
| 2011 | Summer X Games XVII | Moto X Step Up | 5th |
| YEAR | GAVITY GAMES | LOCATION | EVENTS | RANK | MEDAL |
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| 2000 | Gravity Games II | Providence, Rhode Island | Moto X Freestyle | 4th | |
| 2001 | Gravity Games III | Providence, Rhode Island | Moto X Freestyle | 3rd | |
| 2002 | Gravity Games IV | Cleveland, Ohio | Moto X Freestyle | 5th |
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