Peter Leek
Peter Leek multiple gold medallist at the 2008 Beijing Games
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| Full name | Peter Alan Stuart Leek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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27 September 1988 Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S8, SB7, SM8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Cranbrook Eastern Edge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Alan Stuart Leek, OAM (born 27 September 1988) was an Australian swimmer with ataxic cerebral palsy, who won eight medals at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
Leek was born in the Sydney suburb of Blacktown. He began swimming at the age of eight to aid his disability. He was a member of Ripples St Marys Swimming Club for 13 years. He attended Oxley Park Public School during his primary school years, and then Colyton High School.
His debut in major international competition was at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships in Durban, South Africa where he won two gold, two silver and one bronze medals.
At the 2008 Beijing Games, he won three gold medals in the Men's 100 m Butterfly S8, Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM8, and Men's 4x100 m Medley 34 pts events, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, four silver medals in the Men's 50 m Freestyle S8, Men's 4x100 m Freestyle 34 pts, Men's 400 m Freestyle S8, and Men's 100 m Backstroke S8 events, and a bronze medal in the Men's 100 m Freestyle S8 event. He broke four world records and four Paralympic records.
He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. Leek's medals helped Australia's national Paralympic swim team finish sixth overall.
He missed the 2010 Commonwealth Games due to glandular fever.
He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship recipient.
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