Peter A. Salmon (August 3, 1929 – October 11, 2003) was a competitive

backstroke Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimm ...

, breaststroke and freestyle swimmer from Canada. He represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1948 in London. Salmon claimed the gold medal in the men's 100-metre freestyle event at the

1950 British Empire Games The 1950 British Empire Games was the fourth staging of what is now called the Commonwealth Games. It was held in Auckland, New Zealand between 4 and 11 February 1950, after a 12-year gap from the third edition of the games. The main venue was ...

in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Peter Salmon's profile at Sports Reference.comPeter Salmon's obituary

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* 1929 births 2003 deaths Canadian male backstroke swimmers Canadian male breaststroke swimmers Canadian male freestyle swimmers Swimmers from Victoria, British Columbia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada Swimmers at the 1950 British Empire Games Olympic swimmers for Canada Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games {{Canada-swimming-bio-stub

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