Peter Kerry Clark CNZM OBE (born 30 June 1949) is New Zealand lawn bowls player and administrator.
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| Birth name | Peter Kerry Clark | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 June 1949 Cromwell, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
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Early life and family
editBorn in Cromwell on 30 June 1949, Clark was educated at Cromwell District High School from 1961 to 1965.[1] He married his wife, Suzanne, in 1990, and the couple have one child.[1]
Playing career
editClark began playing bowls in Cromwell as a 12-year-old, and represented New Zealand at the 1972 world championships.[2] At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games he won the men's fours gold medal, partnering David Baldwin, Gordon Jolly and John Somerville.[3] At the following 1978 Commonwealth Games he came fourth in the men's singles.[3] He made his final international appearance for New Zealand in 1980.[2]
Administration
editBetween 1982 and 1986, Clark was the convenor of the national men's selection panel, and was involved in the organisation of the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland.[2] He served as president of the International Bowling Board for two years.[2] When the New Zealand men's and women's bowls associations amalgamated to form Bowls New Zealand in 1996, Clark was appointed as that body's inaugural chief executive.[2] He announced his retirement in 2016.[2]
Clark became chair of the World Bowls laws committee in 2004, and also chaired the organisation of the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship held in Christchurch.[4] He was chair of the New Zealand Sports Turf Institute between 1997 and 2011,[4] and was the World Bowls technical delegate for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[5].Clark also Chaired the organisation of the 2016 World Outdoor Championships in Christchurch.
A trustee of the Halberg Disability Foundation since 1996, Clark was made a life trustee in 2016.[4]
Honours
editIn the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, Clark was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowls.[6] In 2013, he was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[7] Clark was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to bowls in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.[8] Awarded the Order of Merit by the Commonwealth Games Federation at the CGF General Assembly in April 2018 for services to Lawn Bowls
References
edit- ^ a b Taylor, Alister, ed. (2001). New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001. Auckland: Alister Taylor Publishers. p. 226. ISSN 1172-9813.
- ^ a b c d e f Smith, Tony (4 November 2016). "Bowls chief Kerry Clark to retire after 20 years as NZ's longest national sporting CEO". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ a b "Lifetime achievement award 2016, Kerry Clark OBE". Bowls Canterbury. 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ a b c "Queen's Birthday honours 2017 – citations for Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Lawn bowls International Federation give Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre the thumbs up". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ^ "No. 51774". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 17 June 1989. p. 32.
- ^ "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2017". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2016.