Peter Hanlon (sportswriter)

{{short description|Australian sports writer and editor}}

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Peter Hanlon is an Australian sports writer. {{As of|2012}} he is deputy sports editor of The Age, for whom he has written since 1995.

He has also written for The Guardian, The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times, Daily Express, and Today. With a focus largely on cricket, he has won "multiple" media awards in Victoria, including Cricket Victoria's leading media award for his 2009 Why Cricket, the "most outstanding written, photographic, radio or television work relating to Victorian cricket".{{cite web|url=http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=708|title=Peter Hanlon Profile|publisher=The Age|accessdate=24 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228063042/http://www.about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=708|archive-date=28 December 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/plugins/newsfeed.cgi?rm=content&plugin_data_id=26529;group_name=mainsite|title=Waters heads list of winners at 2008/09 Cricket Victoria Media Awards|publisher=Cricket Victoria|accessdate=24 January 2012}}