Peter Thomas Antonie OAM was born on 11 May 1958 and is an Australian former rower.
19 Facts About Peter Antonie
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Peter Antonie is an Olympic and Commonwealth games gold medallist and world champion.
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Peter Antonie is regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever rowers figuring in senior representative squads consistently from 1977 to 1996 and representing Australia on eighteen occasions at three Olympics and fifteen World Rowing Championships.
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Peter Antonie competed at the highest levels as both a sculler and a sweep oarsman, in both lightweight and open divisions, across all boat classes.
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Peter Antonie won twenty-nine Australian national championship titles in his career.
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Peter Antonie was a long serving president of the Melbourne University Boat Club.
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At the national championships at those same regattas, Peter Antonie raced for the Melbourne University Boat Club in a lightweight four in 1977,1978 and 1980.
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Peter Antonie demonstrated his versatility the following year stroking the Victorian heavyweight men's eight to a King's Cup victory.
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Peter Antonie won the interstate championship for Victoria in 1991.
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From 1977 to 1997 but excepting 1996, Peter Antonie raced at every Australian Rowing Championships and won at least one national title every year.
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Between the commencement of his senior rowing career in 1977 and his final Olympic appearance in 1996, Peter Antonie rowed for Australia every year excepting 1980 and 1995 at the top-level world regatta available for his weight division.
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Peter Antonie was first selected for Australian representative honours in a LM4- for the Amsterdam 1977 which won silver.
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Peter Antonie was in an Australian lightweight eight at Bled 1979; a lightweight double scull at Munich 1981; and in lightweight eights at Lucerne 1982, Duisburg 1983 and Montreal 1984.
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Peter Antonie was picked to row the lightweight single scull for Hazelwinkel 1985 and the following year in the same event, Antonie finally won gold and a World Championship title at Nottingham 1986.
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Peter Antonie was picked as Australia's heavyweight sculler for Vienna 1991 delivering a credible fourth place.
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Peter Antonie made a third Olympic appearance at Atlanta 1996 again in a double scull.
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Peter Antonie was selected as an Olympic games reserve for Sydney 2000.
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On 26 January 1987, Peter Antonie was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in recognition of services to rowing.
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Peter Antonie was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1998, and in 2000, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for rowing achievements.