Peter Barker

Peter Barker
Peter Barker at the Australian Open 2011
Nationality:	England
Birthday:	September 26, 1983
Size:	182 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Left
Trainer:	Paul Carter , Ben Ford
successes
Career title:	16
Career finals:	26th
Best placement:	5 (December 2012)
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Peter Barker (born September 26, 1983 in London ) is a former English squash player .

Career

Peter Barker attended Brentwood School in Essex from 1995 to 2002 and began his professional career immediately afterwards. In 2007 Barker became world champion with the English national team in Chennai , and in 2011 he was runner-up with the team behind Egypt. He also won numerous European championship titles with the team. At the Commonwealth Games 2010 in India , Peter Barker won the bronze medal in singles, and in the same year he reached the semi-finals of the individual world championships. In December 2012 he achieved his best position in the world rankings with fifth place. He won 16 titles on the PSA World Tour. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 , he won another bronze medal in singles. In November 2015, he retired from the Hong Kong Open due to ongoing injury problems .

successes

• World champion with the team: 2007
• European champion with the team: 9 titles (2006-2014)
• Won PSA -Titel: 16
• Commonwealth Games : 1 × silver ( mixed 2014 ), 2 × bronze ( singles 2010 and 2014 )

Web links

• Player profile at psaworldtour.com (English)
• Player profile at squashinfo.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barker to retire after Hong Kong Open , psaworldtour.com, November 24, 2015. Accessed December 6, 2015.
2. ↑ Barker bows out , squashinfo.com of 25 November 2015. Retrieved on December 6, 2015.