Peter Thomas Antonie OAM (born 11 May 1958) is an Australian former rower. He is an Olympic & Commonwealth games gold medallist and world champion. He is regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever rowers figuring in senior representative squads consistently from 1977 to 1996 and representing Australia on eighteen occasions at three Olympics and fifteen World Rowing Championships. He competed at the highest levels as both a sculler and a sweep oarsman, in both lightweight and open divisions, across all boat classes. He won twenty-nine Australian national championship titles in his career. Club and state rowing Born in Melbourne, Victoria, and educated at Xavier College, Antonie's senior rowing was done from the Melbourne University Boat Club. Antonie was a president of the Melbourne University Boat Club. Starting out as sweep rower Antonie was selected in the Victorian state representative lightweight four to race the Penrith Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships for four consecutive years 1977 to 1980. Those crews won the interstate championship in 1977 & 1978. At the national championships at those same regattas, Antonie raced for the Melbourne University Boat Club in a lightweight four in 1977, 1978 & 1980. They won the national title in 1977 & 78. At each national championship from 1977 to 1980 he backed up to race in an MUBC lightweight eight, winning in 1978 and 1980. By 1981 Antonie had switched to sculling and representing the MUBC he raced for the national Australian lightweight sculling title at the Australian Rowing Championships for six consecutive years from 1981. He won that national title on four occasions. While still an eligible lightweight (max 72.5 kg) by the mid 1980s Antonie was racing at Australian Rowing Championships in all sculling boats against lightweight or open competitors. In 1987 he managed to win three national sculling titles – stroking a quad scull, a double scull and solo in the lightweight single scull. He demonstrated his versatility the following year stroking the Victorian heavyweight men's eight to a King's Cup victory. From 1990 to 1992 he was the Victorian state representative picked to race the President's Cup (open heavyweight single scull) at the Australian Rowing Championships. He won the interstate championship for Victoria in 1991. From 1977 to 1997 but excepting 1996, Antonie raced at every Australian Rowing Championships and won at least one national title every year. In total he won twenty-nine national championship