Background
Bartelski grew up in the Netherlands and is of Polish origin.
Bartelski grew up in the Netherlands and is of Polish origin.
Two years later, he finished 15th at the 1974 World Championships.
He competed at his first Olympics at the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo at the age of just 17. In February 1975, he had a dramatic and spectacular fall during the downhill race at Megève and suffered a concussion and a broken nose which kept him out of action for several weeks. He failed to feature in the top placings for the next five years until finishing 12th at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
The second placing result remains the highest placing by a Briton in any World Cup race.
British television viewers began to tune in more regularly to Ski Sunday each week to follow the performances of a surprise hero, but Bartelski failed to improve on his biggest result. He finished 7th in Schladming in February 1982 and also had a 13th place and two 15th place finishes during that winter season.
He ended the season ranked 19th in the World Cup standings. He retired from World Cup races in 1983.
Towards the end of his career, Bartelski began to make appearances in the commentary box for Ski Sunday on British Broadcasting Corporation television - the programme which gained him his fame in his home country.
He also worked for Sky Television on the Ford Ski Report and Great Escapes and for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live and several broadsheet United Kingdom newspapers including The Guardian, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Times. Foreign 10 years he was a director of Badger Sports, a Winter Sports distributor with a £1.90 million turnover. In the late 1990s, he switched to behind the television cameras, as an assistant producer for Transport World International (TWI) and moved to Octagon Computer Society of India in 2001.
By 2003 he moved to Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Classic Sport, broadcasting in Italy and France and later the United Kingdom.
