Peter Guy Montgomery, AM (born 6 July 1950) is an Australian sports administrator and former

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player, who competed at four Olympics from 1972 to 1984 and has been the Vice President of the

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since 2001.

Biography

Montgomery was born on 6 July 1950 and grew up on the

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of Sydney. He attended Narrabeen Boys' High School, where he began playing water polo, and graduated from the

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with a Bachelor of Laws in 1972; he has been a solicitor at the

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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 represented Australia in the sport on 441 occasions and, since his retirement from water polo in 1984, has served as a sports administrator on national and international committees related to water polo and the Olympic movement. Montgomery became president of the Australian Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission in 1984. He has been Vice President of the

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

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since its founding in 1982. Montgomery was the inaugural President of the

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, 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.

Recognition

Montgomery received a Medal of the

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in 1986 and was promoted to membership status in 2006. At the

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, he received an

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. He was inducted into the

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and the

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in 2009 and the

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in 2013. The swimming pool at the

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aquatic centre is named after him.

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Biography

Recognition

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