Trevor Clark (weightlifter)

Trevor Clark

Personal information
Birth name	Trevor Rees Clark
Born	(1916-11-09)9 November 1916 Auckland, New Zealand
Died	5 April 1984(1984-04-05) (aged 67) Auckland, New Zealand
Sport
Country	New Zealand
Sport	Weightlifting
Achievements and titles
National finals	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 730 lb (331.1 kg). 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 790 lb (358.3 kg).^[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]

References

1. Todd, Sydney P. (1966). Champions All. Invercargill: A. J. Owen. p. 282.
2. "Trevor R. Clark". Commonwealth Games Federation. 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
3. "Lewis Lawn". New Zealand Olympic Committee. 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
4. "Trevor Rees Clark". Online Cenotaph. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
5. "Games officials". The Press. Vol. 103, no. 30504. 28 July 1964. p. 19. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
6. "Burial & cremation details". Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium. Retrieved 13 October 2020.