Trevor Hendy is a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n professional surf lifesaver.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hendy dominated Ironman (surf lifesaving)

Ironman (surf lifesaving)

The sport of Ironman was developed in 1964 in Australia by Mr Valentine Trainor to combine the four main disciplines of surf lifesaving into a single race; swimming, board paddling, ski paddling and running...

 races, winning the Australian Championship 6 times and coming second on 3 occasions. He also won the Uncle Toby's Super Series

Uncle Toby's Super Series

The Uncle Toby's Super Series was a professional Iron Man circuit that ran from 1989 to 2001. It was considered by many to be the pinnacle of Surf Lifesaving and inspired many young kids to become involved in the sport...

 4 times. He was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in 1996 for services to surf lifesaving, and is a member of the Australian, Queensland, Gold Coast and Australian Surf Lifesaving Halls of Fame.

Hendy's strongest leg of the Iron Man was always the Malibu Board. He was Australian and World Malibu Board champion several times.

Later in his career Hendy turned his attention to Kayak paddling where despite having some success, could never find selection in Australia's Olympic teams.

After retiring from professional sport, Hendy became a commentator.

Hendy was declared Bankrupt in 2000.