Trevor Sydney Bickle (born 17 July 1943 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Western Australian athlete and Commonwealth pole vault champion.

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.

Trevor Bickle

In the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth at Perry Lakes Stadium, he won the gold medal with a vault of . In Jamaica four years later at 1966 Games he won again, retaining the Commonwealth title with a vault of - 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.

Trevor Bickle

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

Trevor Bickle

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

In 1989 Bickle was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Champions.

References

1943 births

Australian male pole vaulters

Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia

Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics

Track and field athletes from Western Australia

Western Australian Sports Star of the Year winners

South Fremantle Football Club players

Living people

20th-century Australian people

Sportspeople from Fremantle

Sportsmen from Western Australia

Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games