Steve Clark, a two-time Olympic swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Games, died April 14 in Larkspur, California, at age 82. The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease. Clark delivered stirring performances in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, 4x200-meter freestyle relay and 4x100-meter medley relay, helping set world records.

Decades after his athletic career, Clark openly discussed the depression he wrestled with intermittently for 30 years between 1966 and 1996. In an unpublished 2012 essay, he wrote he kept his struggles hidden out of embarrassment, "faking feeling normal." During his era, athletes were expected to be stoic; vulnerability was viewed as mental weakness. "We all get depressed when it's over," said fellow 1964 gold medalist Donna de Varona.

Clark graduated from Yale in 1965 and Harvard Law School in 1969, describing much of his legal career in Northern California as unfulfilling. His first marriage ended in divorce in 1996, and he began seeing a psychiatrist that year, eventually finding relief through medication and therapy. He later provided legal guidance to professional athletes and donated one of his gold medals to Yale in 2005, saying: "I don't want to live on past athletic glory." He is survived by his wife Betsy and three daughters.