David McKenzie (15 July 1936 – 10 August 1981) was an Australian fencer. He competed at the

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

and

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

. He was an

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

member from 1974 to 1981. He replaced

Lewis Luxton Lewis Luxton CBE (12 September 1910 – 9 November 1985) was an Australian rower who competed for Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics and became a member of the International Olympic Committee. Luxton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Aust ...

who had resigned. McKenzie gained notoriety for encouraging

Dennis Tutty Dennis Tutty is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition who also represented for Australia. He was also a champion rower for New South Wales and won a national ti ...

to go to court to challenge rugby league's restraint of trade clauses, a case that would change professional sport in Australia.

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