Peter Montgomery (water polo)

Montgomery was born on 6 July 1950 and grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.[2][3] 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.[3][4]

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).[2][5] 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.[6] 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.[3][5][6][7] 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.[6]

Montgomery received a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1986 and was promoted to membership status in 2006.[1][8] At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he received an Olympic Order.[6][3] He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2009 and the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2013.[6][5][7] The swimming pool at the University of Sydney aquatic centre is named after him.[4]