Peter Bartels

Peter Tasman Bartels, AO (born 4 January 1941) is an Australian businessman, track cyclist and sport administrator.

Personal Bartels was born on 4 January 1941 in Melbourne, Victoria. He married Marilyn Loveland and they have two sons.

Business

Bartels has been a successful Australian businessman. He began his corporate career at Abbott Laboratories in the 1960s and then went on to be managing director of Drug Houses of Australia. He was CEO and Managing Director of Foster's Group from 1985 to 1992. He then became CEO of Coles Myer from 1992 to 1996. In 2000, resigned as Chairman of Voicenet after only 2 months. In 2005, he became a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Aus Bio Limited and Starpharma Pooled Development.

At the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, he won the gold medal in the Men's 1000m Time Trial. 2001 - Centenary Medal for outstanding service to Australian sport and sports administration 2002 – Associate Inductee Sport Australia Hall of Fame 2004 - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the community as a sports administrator, particularly in the areas of strategic and budgetary planning and sports development and promotion, and to the business sector