Paul Easter

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| fullname = Paul Robert Easter

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| national_team = Great Britain

| strokes = Freestyle, butterfly

| club = Warrender Baths Club,
City of Swansea

| collegeteam = Arizona State University

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|5|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Norwich, England

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Paul Robert Easter (born 14 May 1963){{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}} 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.Gilmore, Jamie, editor (1990) "One Hundred Years of Warrender Baths Club 1888-1988" Macdonald Lindsay Pindar plc, Edinburgh, {{ISBN|0-9516787-0-1}}[http://www.scottishswimming.com/assets/files/downloadfiles/Swimming/Miscellaneous/Warrender2-10jan.pdf The Stars of Warrender] Scottish Swimming, Retrieved 5 February 2013 He also swam for City of Swansea swimming club and Arizona State University while studying there.Eger, Bob "Maroon & Gold: A History of Sun Devil Athletics" Sports Publishing LLC, Page 204, (2001), {{ISBN|978-1582612232}} He competed at the Summer Olympics for Great Britain at the 1984 (Los Angeles, California).[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 In 1984 he claimed the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay, alongside Neil Cochran, Andrew Astbury, and Paul Howe.

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 Douglas Campbell, Iain Cambell and William McGoldrick. 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.{{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}} 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.

He won the 1985 British Championship in the 400 metres freestyle{{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}} and the 100 metres butterfly.{{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}}

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.{{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}}

Easter was inducted into the Scottish Swimming Hall of Fame in 2018.{{cite web

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| title = Duncan Scott & Steven Tigg Earn Top Scottish Swimming Honors

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| title = Scottish Swimming celebrate a year of success

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| date = 1 October 2018

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