deaths
June 17, 2015
Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (born 1937)
Ron Clarke
Ronald William Clarke, AO, MBE was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records.
Mayor of the Gold Coast
The Mayor of the City of the Gold Coast is presiding officer and public face of the Gold Coast City Council, the local government body of the Gold Coast, Queensland. The current mayor is Tom Tate.