Peter Antonie

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

Career

Peter Antonie, who is only 1.83 meters tall, began as a lightweight rower and was a member of the Australian national team from 1977. At the 1977 World Championships, he won silver in the four without a helmsman of the lightweights, and the following year he received bronze. Antonie did not receive his next world championship medal until 1983, when he finished second with the lightweight eighth. In 1986 he won the lightweight singles competition at both the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games.

Since lightweight rowing was not Olympic until 1996, Antonie switched to the open class after 1986 in order to be able to take part in the Olympic Games. As early as 1988 , he reached the Olympic final with the Australian double foursome and finished in fifth place. Also in this double scull was Paul Reedy , with whom Antonie won bronze in the double scull at the 1990 World Cup.

At the Olympic rowing competitions in 1992 Antonie and Stephen Hawkins competed in double sculls, the two of whom won by one second over the Austrians Arnold Jonke and Christoph Zerbst . At the age of 38, Antonie started again in 1996 with Jason Day in double sculls, but missed the final, with second place in the B final he reached eighth place overall.

Peter Antonie was four times Australian single champion: 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995. In 2003 he was the first Australian to receive the Thomas Keller Medal from the FISA international rowing association .

literature

• Robin Poke: Peter Antonie: Out of His Shell. A Biography of Australian Rowing's Unsung Hero. Walla Walla Press 2007 ISBN 978-1-876718-03-9

Web links

• Peter Antonie at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Peter Antonie in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Championships in One