Trevor Clark (weightlifter)

{{Short description|New Zealand weightlifter (1916–1984)}}

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| name = Trevor Clark

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| birth_name = Trevor Rees Clark

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|11|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|04|05|1916|11|09|df=y}}

| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand

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| sport = Weightlifting

| country = New Zealand

| nationals = Middleweight champion (1939)
Light heavyweight champion (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950)
Middle heavyweight champion (1951, 1952, 1953)

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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.{{cite book |last=Todd |first=Sydney P. |title=Champions All |year=1966 |publisher=A. J. Owen |location=Invercargill |page=282}} 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 {{convert|730|lb|kg|1|abbr=on}}. 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 {{convert|790|lb|kg|1|abbr=on}}.{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/55621 |title=Trevor R. Clark |year=2018 |publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=13 October 2020 |archive-date=14 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014100307/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/55621 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/lewis-lawn |title=Lewis Lawn |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |year=2018 |access-date=13 October 2020}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C135171 |title=Trevor Rees Clark |website=Online Cenotaph |publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum |access-date=13 October 2020}}

Clark was the manager of the New Zealand weightlifting team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640728.2.215 |title=Games officials |date=28 July 1964 |work=The Press |volume=103 |issue=30504 |page=19 |access-date=14 January 2023}}

Clark died on 5 April 1984.{{cite web |url=https://purewa.discovereverafter.com/profile/37201897 |title=Burial & cremation details |publisher=Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium}}