World Champion
Barefoot Water Skier
His first sporting success came at the 1976 South African water-skiing championships where he finished 2nd and then continued to dominate the barefoot water-skiing scene in SA and Europe – establishing a world ramp jump record which he held for four years.
15x South African F1
Powerboat
Champion
At this time, he started Powerboat racing, another sport he dominated in SA,
winning the SA Formula one championship 15 times, and finishing 3rd in the
World Championships in 1989,
despite being banned from the
last two events for political reasons.
Declared
Dead,
Twice
His first major Formula one boat crash in Malaysia which left him in a coma and shortly thereafter, was thought to be the cause of a brain hemorrhage. Another accident in Saldanha Bay in 2002, leaving Peter trapped underwater for 2 minutes and 58 seconds, after successfully resuscitating him, he landed up in a coma for a second time.
23x National
Championships
Across Four
Sports
In 2008, he was inducted into the South African Sports Hall of Fame and in total, he has been awarded National colours on 39 occasions and has won 23 National Championships across four different sports - the last few being in Motor Racing.
