Peter Foster (born 27 July 1960) is an Australian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1980s. He won the bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. His mother Elizabeth and father John also had two other children. Catherine and Margot Foster. Foster was the second child and grew up in Melbourne, Australia where he still resides. Foster's father John competed for Australia in water polo at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics. His sister Margot won a bronze in the women's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.