Kerry Clark

For the minor league ice hockey player, see Kerry Clark (ice hockey).

Kerry Clark
CNZM OBE
Clark in 2017
Personal information
Birth name Peter Kerry Clark
Born 1948/1949
Sport
Country New Zealand
Sport Lawn bowls
Medal record
Men's lawn bowls
Representing  New Zealand
British Commonwealth Games
1974 ChristchurchFours

Peter Kerry Clark CNZM OBE (born 1948/1949)[1] is New Zealand lawn bowls player and administrator.

Playing career

Clark began playing bowls in Cromwell as a 12-year-old, and represented New Zealand at the 1972 world championships.[1] At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games he won the men's fours gold medal, partnering David Baldwin, Gordon Jolly and John Somerville.[2] At the following 1978 Commonwealth Games he came fourth in the men's singles.[2] He made his final international appearance for new Zealand in 1980.[1]

Administration

Between 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.[1] He served as president of the International Bowling Board for two years.[1] 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.[1] He announced his retirement in 2016.[1]

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.[3] He was chair of the New Zealand Sports Turf Institute between 1997 and 2011,[3] and was the World Bowls technical delegate for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[4]

A trustee of the Halberg Disability Foundation since 1996, Clark was made a life trustee in 2016.[3]

Honours

In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, Clark was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to bowls.[5] In 2013, he was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[6] Clark was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to bowls in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
  2. 1 2 "Lifetime achievement award 2016, Kerry Clark OBE". Bowls Canterbury. 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "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.
  4. ↑ "Lawn bowls International Federation give Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre the thumbs up". Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "No. 51774". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1989. p. 32.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2017". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
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