Anthony Peridis

Anthony Peridis (born 14 June 1979) was an Australian television presenter, formerly with the Sydney Weekender program on the Seven Network in New South Wales and formerly with SBS.

Media career
A career in sports journalism became obvious when still at school at The Scots College in Sydney. As a teenager his ambition was to be like Tim Webster, a prominent Australian sports journalist. Anthony completed a Diploma in Journalism at the Macleay College in 1998.

Despite being born and raised in Sydney, his break came in the form of a two hour sport show in Brisbane in 1999.

He was sports producer for Sunrise on Channel Seven.

He then joined the SBS sport team. He reported on SBS's coverage of the FIFA Women's World Cup from China in September 2007.

In 2008 he returned to Seven from SBS to present Sydney Weekender. He quit television in 2009 to start operating a restaurant business in southern Sydney.

Anthony has covered some of the biggest events in Australian sports, but claims soccer and cricket top his list of favourite sports. His sporting highlights include the Socceroos journey at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, The qualification match against Uruguay, Australia's three successive Cricket World Cup victories, Australia's five nil Ashes defeat of England, Kieren Perkins' 1500 metres victory at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the 4x100 metres freestyle Men's relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Sporting pursuits
Peridis has represented NSW as a gymnast and as a cross country runner.

Peridis is an avid runner and was due to compete in the New York Marathon on 1 November 2009. He was also expected to race in the New Zealand Ironman on 6 March 2010.

He is a member of the Cronulla Seagulls Football Club and the North Cronulla Surf Lifesaving Club.