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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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Peter Kerry Clark CNZM OBE (born 30 June 1949) is a New Zealand lawn bowls player and administrator.
Born 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]
Clark 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]
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. [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]
In 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
