{{Short description|British swimmer (born 1963)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Paul Easter | image = <!-- Only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people -- see WP:NONFREE. --> | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | alt = | caption = | fullname = Paul Robert Easter | nicknames = | national_team = Great Britain | strokes = Freestyle, butterfly | club = Warrender Baths Club,<br />City of Swansea | collegeteam = Arizona State University | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|5|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Norwich, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{convert|1.83|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|77|kg|lb st|abbr=on}} | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's swimming}} {{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze | 1984 Los Angeles | 4x200 m freestyle}} {{MedalCountry | {{SCO}} }} {{MedalCompetition | British Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze | 1982 Brisbane | 4x200 m freestyle}} {{MedalBronze | 1982 Brisbane | 4x100 m medley}} |show-medals=yes }}
'''Paul Robert Easter''' (born 14 May 1963)<ref name="SportsReference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ea/paul-easter-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041358/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ea/paul-easter-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Paul Easter |date=2015 |website=SR/Olympic Sports |publisher=Sports-Reference |location=UK |access-date=4 August 2015}}</ref> is a former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, and competed for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games.
==Swimming career== He was freestyle swimmer, and swam for Warrender Baths Club in Edinburgh.<ref name="WBC">Gilmore, Jamie, editor (1990) "One Hundred Years of Warrender Baths Club 1888-1988" Macdonald Lindsay Pindar plc, Edinburgh, {{ISBN|0-9516787-0-1}}</ref><ref>[http://www.scottishswimming.com/assets/files/downloadfiles/Swimming/Miscellaneous/Warrender2-10jan.pdf The Stars of Warrender] Scottish Swimming, Retrieved 5 February 2013</ref> He also swam for City of Swansea swimming club<ref name="SportsReference" /> and Arizona State University while studying there.<ref>Eger, Bob "Maroon & Gold: A History of Sun Devil Athletics" Sports Publishing LLC, Page 204, (2001), {{ISBN|978-1582612232}}</ref> He competed at the Summer Olympics for Great Britain at the 1984 (Los Angeles, California).<ref name="SROlympic">[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043743/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GBR/summer/1984/SWI/ Great Britain Swimming at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games] Sports Reference/Olympic Sports, Retrieved 8 December 2013</ref> In 1984 he claimed the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay, alongside Neil Cochran, Andrew Astbury, and Paul Howe.<ref name="SROlympic" />
Easter won six Scottish swimming championships and broke eight Scottish swimming records in 1982. He swam for Great Britain in the European Cup and competed for Scotland in the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane], Australia where he won a bronze medal in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay with Neil Cochran, Douglas Campbell and Graeme Wilson, and a bronze medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay with Doug Campbell, Iain Cambell and William McGoldrick.<ref name="WBC" /> He represented Great Britain at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador. In 1983 he broke eight Scottish records, was named the outstanding swimmer at the British short-course championships in Cardiff and represented Great Britain in an international swimming matches against Holland, Russia and Canada.<ref name="WBC" /><ref name="Herald">{{cite news |title=Easter Goes in at the deep end |newspaper=The Herald|volume=Travel |location=Glasgow, UK |page=27 |date=3 June 1983 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19830603&id=_P09AAAAIBAJ&pg=6269,770969&hl=en |access-date=4 August 2015}}</ref> In 1984 he broke the Scottish 100 and 200 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly records before winning his bronze medal at the Olympics. In 1985 he broke the Scottish 200 m freestyle record again and won the 400 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly championships. He was selected to swim for Scotland at the 1986 Commonwealth Games but had to withdraw because of illness.<ref name="WBC" />
He won the 1985 British Championship in the 400 metres freestyle<ref>{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS252416282/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=4ae0a98d|title=Still, Athole. "Swimming." Times, 26 Aug. 1985, p. 15|publisher=Times Digital Archive}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the 100 metres butterfly.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS252416282/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=4ae0a98d|title=Still, Athole. "Swimming." Times, 26 Aug. 1985, p. 15|publisher=Times Digital Archive}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2012 Easter was a police officer at the Nottinghamshire Police. He was the dive team leader in the underwater-search unit.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} In 2014 Easter occasionally coached swimming at Nottingham Leander Swimming Club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leandersc.com/page/junior-coaches/457/ |title=Nottingham Leander Swimming Club |date=28 July 2014 |access-date=4 August 2015}}</ref>
Easter was inducted into the Scottish Swimming Hall of Fame in 2018.<ref name="Race 2018">{{cite web | last = Race | first = Loretta | title = Duncan Scott & Steven Tigg Earn Top Scottish Swimming Honors | website = SwimSwam | date = 1 October 2018 | url = https://swimswam.com/duncanscott-steventigg-earn-top-scottish-swimming-honors/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190413072901/https://swimswam.com/duncanscott-steventigg-earn-top-scottish-swimming-honors/ | archive-date = 13 April 2019 | url-status = live | access-date = 13 April 2019 }}</ref><ref name="Scottish Swimming 2018">{{cite web | title = Scottish Swimming celebrate a year of success | website = Scottish Swimming | date = 1 October 2018 | url = http://www.scottishswimming.com/newsroom/news/2018/10/scottish-swimming-celebrate-a-year-of-success.aspx | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190413073423/https://www.scottishswimming.com/newsroom/news/2018/10/scottish-swimming-celebrate-a-year-of-success.aspx | archive-date = 13 April 2019 | url-status = live | access-date = 13 April 2019 }}</ref>
==See also== * List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1155 British Olympic Association athlete profile]
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