Trevor Bickle

{{Short description|Australian pole vaulter (born 1943)}}

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| birth_name = Trevor Sydney Bickle

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|17 July 1943}}

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{{Medal|Gold|1962 Perth|Men's Pole Vault}}

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Trevor Sydney Bickle (born 17 July 1943 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Western Australian athlete and Commonwealth pole vault champion.W.A. Hall of Champions inductee booklet. (2006) Published by the Western Australian Institute of Sport

At 16, Bickle was "volunteered" to contest an F-grade pole vault event at his local athletics club by his coach. He won the event and went on to a highly successful international career in the sport.

In the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth at Perry Lakes Stadium, he won the gold medal with a vault of {{convert|14|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}}.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47510434 |title=TOP TEENS IN SPORT No. 8 He jumps with joy |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=31 |issue=3 |date=19 June 1963 |accessdate=12 April 2023 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} In Jamaica four years later at 1966 Games he won again, retaining the Commonwealth title with a vault of {{convert|15|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}}{{cite news |title=Final results |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55846214/the-guardian/ |accessdate=22 July 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=15 August 1966 |page=4}} – his best competition result. He won Australian titles in 1963, 1966 and 1967 but was unlucky to miss selection for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics when he broke his pole in the selection trials.

Bickle retired from competition in 1967 when he represented the Commonwealth of Nations against the United States in Los Angeles.

In 1965 he played a single game for South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League.{{WAFL FootyFacts}}

In 1989 Bickle was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Champions.{{cite web |title=Hall of Champions: Trevor Bickle|url=https://wais.org.au/hallofchampions/trevor-bickle/ |website=WAIS |language=en-AU}}