Peter Tarsey
Peter Tarsey (5 August 1937 – 29 March 2015) was a British diver who competed for Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal at the 1958 Commonwealth Games.
Early life
Peter David Tarsey was born on 5 August 1937 in Brentford, Greater London.[citation needed]
Career
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Tarsey competed in the Men's 3 metre springboard, where he finished 16th, and the Men's 10 metre platform, where he finished 14th.
Tarsey competed in two Commonwealth Games winning a bronze medal at Cardiff in 1958, in the Men's 3m Springboard event.[1][2]
Personal life and death
Tarsey married Jean Biggs and they had two sons, Alexei and Sascha.[1] Tarsey and his wife were found shot dead at their villa in Xalo, near Benidorm, Spain, on 29 March 2015. They had moved to Spain 18 years earlier.[3][4] The Spanish police are treating their deaths as murder.[1]
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