Peter Montgomery

Peter Guy Montgomery, AM (born 6 July 1950) is an Australian sports administrator and former water polo player, who competed at four Olympics from 1972 to 1984 and has been the Vice President of the Australian Olympic Committee since 2001.

Biography Montgomery was born on 6 July 1950 and grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. He attended Narrabeen Boys' High School, where he began playing water polo, and graduated from the Sydney Law School with a Bachelor of Laws in 1972; he has been a solicitor at the Supreme Court of New South Wales since then.

He competed in the Australian water polo team at the 1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal, 1980 Moscow, and 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics (the last of which he captained). He has been Vice President of the Australian Olympic Committee since 2001, was a member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission from 1988 to 1999, and has served as Treasurer, Vice President and Patron of Australian Water Polo since its founding in 1982. Montgomery was the inaugural President of the World Olympians Association, a position he held between 1995 and 1999. In 1995, Montgomery was part of the first members of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he received an Olympic Order. The swimming pool at the University of Sydney aquatic centre is named after him.