Trevor Clark (weightlifter) explained

Trevor Clark
Birth Name:Trevor Rees Clark
Birth Date:9 November 1916
Birth Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Death Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Sport:Weightlifting
Country:New Zealand
Nationals:Middleweight champion (1939)
Light heavyweight champion (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950)
Middle heavyweight champion (1951, 1952, 1953)

Trevor Rees Clark (9 November 1916 – 5 April 1984) was a New Zealand weightlifter who represented his country at the 1950 British Empire Games and 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

Clark won eight New Zealand national weightlifting titles: four in the light heavyweight division, in consecutive years from 1947 to 1950; three in the middle heavyweight division, in 1951, 1952, and 1953; and the middleweight division in 1939.[1] He represented New Zealand in the light heavyweight division of the weightlifting at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, where he finished in fourth place, recording a total of 7301NaN1. At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, he moved up a weight class, to the middle heavyweight division, and finished fifth, with a combined total of 7901NaN1.[2] [3]

During World War II, Clark served as a private in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and was taken prisoner of war in Crete in 1941. He was held in Stalag VIII-B, later renumbered Stalag-344.[4]

Clark was the manager of the New Zealand weightlifting team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[5]

Clark died in Auckland on 5 April 1984.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Todd, Sydney P. . Champions All . 1966 . A. J. Owen . Invercargill . 282.
  2. Web site: Trevor R. Clark . 2018 . Commonwealth Games Federation . 13 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Lewis Lawn . New Zealand Olympic Committee . 2018 . 13 October 2020.
  4. Web site: Trevor Rees Clark . Online Cenotaph . Auckland War Memorial Museum . 13 October 2020.
  5. News: Games officials . 28 July 1964 . . 103 . 30504 . 19 . 14 January 2023.
  6. Web site: Burial & cremation details . Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium . 13 October 2020.