Peter Antonie

Peter Thomas Antonie ( born May 11, 1958 in Melbourne, Australia ) is a former Australian rower and Olympic champion.

The only 1.83 meters tall Peter Antonie began as a lightweight rower and was from 1977 a member of the Australian national team. At the World Championships 1977 he won silver in the coxless four of the lightweights, the following year he was awarded bronze. His next World Cup medal was awarded Antonie until 1983, when he took second place with the lightweight eights. In 1986 he won the competition in the lightweight one, both at the World Championships as well as at the Commonwealth Games.

Since the lightweight rowing to 1996 was not olympic, Antonie moved to 1986 in the open class in order to participate in the Olympic Games can. In 1988 he reached the Australian sculls the Olympic final, finishing in fifth place. Also in this sculls sat Paul Reedy, with whom Antonie at the 1990 World Cup bronze in the double sculls won.

At the Olympic rowing competitions 1992 Antonie met with Stephen Hawkins in the double sculls, the two won by just a second ahead of the Austrians Arnold Jonke and Christoph Zerbst. At the age of 38 years Antonie In 1996, along with Jason Day once again in the double sculls, but missed the final, with the second place in the B-final he reached the eighth place overall.

Peter Antonie was four times Australian Champion in One: 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 In 2003, he became the first Australians, the Thomas Keller Medal by the International Rowing Federation FISA. .