Peter Tarsey

Peter David 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.

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.

Personal life and death

Tarsey married Jean Biggs and they had two sons, Alexei and Sascha. 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. The Spanish police are treating their deaths as murder.