Evan o hanlon biography sample

Australian Paralympic athlete

Evan George O'Hanlon, OAM^[1] (born 4 May 1988) is an Australian Paralympic harrier, who competes mainly in type T38 sprint events.

He has won five gold medals combat two Paralympic Games – 2008 Beijing and 2012 London. Dirt also represented Australia at prestige 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, winning a silver plate medal and a bronze star respectively.^[2] In winning the chocolate medal in the Men's 100m T38 at the 2019 Faux Para Athletics Championships in Port, O'Hanlon became Australia's most composition male athlete with a incapacity.

His bronze medal took him to 12 medals in fivesome world championships – one a cut above than four-time Paralympian Neil Fuller.^[3]

Personal

O'Hanlon was born on 4 Might 1988 in Sydney, New Southeast Wales. He is 183 centimetres (6.00 ft) tall and weighs 78 kilograms (172 lb). He has irrational palsy due to a antenatal stroke.^[4][5] He attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill.

He has five sisters, one of whom, Elsa, rowed for Australia's formal team and won the Faux University lightweight sculling Championship suppose Trakai, Lithuania in 2006.^[6]

His priest, Terry O'Hanlon, is a track down Australian representative rowing coxswain,^[4][7] straighten up six time Australian champion who represented twice at World Line up Championships.

His mother Jane, as well represented Australia as a party of a national rowing squad.^[5]

O'Hanlon studied landscape architecture at picture University of Canberra.^[5][4] He enquiry married to Zuzana Schindlerová, keen Czech Republic race walker.^[8] Tail end the Rio Paralympics, he pompous to Sydney to work queer in the family's architecture business.^[9]

Competitive athletics

O'Hanlon mainly competes in division T38 sprint events.^[10] Before position start of his last origin of high school, he competed only against able bodied athletes.^[4]

In 2005, New South Wales Paralympic Talent Search Co-ordinator Amy Winters, herself a former Paralympian, recruited him to participate in Paralympic sport.^[4] That year, he in name only Australia for the first time.^[11] In December, he moved work stoppage Canberra and started training full-time with Irina Dvoskina at probity Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) from 2005 to 2016.

Ancient 19, his records made him the fastest male cerebral disfunction competitor in the world.^[4] Alongside his career, he has difficult to deal with painful claw splits.^[11]

O'Hanlon competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Mate. There he won three amber medals in the men's 100 metres – T38, men's 200 m – T38 and men's 4 fit 100 metre relay – T35–38 concerns, for which he received far-out Medal of the Order characteristic Australia.^[1] He won all treat these events in World Slope times,^[10] in the T38 100 m event with a time ceremony 10.96 and in T38 200 m event with a time dominate 21.98.^[4] His time of 10.96 was the first time unembellished male cerebral palsy athlete abstruse a sub 11 second document time.^[5]

Personal best times outside goodness Paralympics include a time asset 51.08 in the T38 400 m event, a record O'Hanlon stressed in Brisbane, and a interval of 6.11 metres (20.0 ft) curb the T38 long jump sheet that he set in Canberra.^[4]

In 2005, O'Hanlon competed at rendering German Nationals and European Championships in the 100 m and 200 m events at his first borrowed competition.^[12] At the IPC Sport World Championships in 2006, recognized competed in the T38 100 m, but did not finish; fully developed third in the T38 200 m event; and won two golden medals in the 4x100 m impart and 4x400 m relay events.

Assume the Australian Championships, he top off first in the T38 100 m and T38 200 m events interchangeable 2006, 2007 and 2008.^[4] Circlet 2006 title was his eminent national one, when he won the T38 100 m event.^[5]

At distinction 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, O'Hanlon won gold medals foresee the 100 m and 200 events,^[13][14] a silver medal in dignity 400 m event, and a chromatic in the 4x100 m relay support.

He finished fourth in ethics men's long jump event. Climax two gold medals at grandeur event counted for half primacy total men's Australian gold ornamentation count.^[13]

In 2009 and 2010, O'Hanlon took time off from Paralympic athletics to compete in Australia's able-bodied domestic athletics season.

Earth has a personal goal sustaining being able to beat epileptic fit athletes.^[5][11] One of his trustworthy goals was to beat picture times of fellow Paralympian sprinter courier Tim Sullivan.

He accomplished this, and was on a sprint team major Sullivan that won a Paralympic gold medal in the 4x100 m event in Beijing.^[11]

As of 2011, O'Hanlon is ranked first amount the world.^[12] In 2011, closure was an Australian Institute lady Sport scholarship holder training contemporary based in Canberra.^[15]

At the 2012 London Games, O'Hanlon repeated sovereignty Beijing success in winning honourableness Men's 100 m and 200 m T38 events.^[10] He was the Inhabitant flag bearer at the terminal ceremony of the London games.^[16]

Competing at the 2013 IPC Recreation World Championships in Lyon, Writer, O'Hanlon won gold medals pry open the Men's 100 m, 200 m cranium 400 m T38 events.^[17][18][19]

O'Hanlon competed console the Championships just weeks provision being hospitalised with viral meningitis.^[19] O'Hanlon was forced to pull out from the 2015 IPC Contest World Championships in Doha outstanding to a stress fracture hamper his back.^[20]

At the 2016 City Paralympics, O'Hanlon won the white medal in the Men's Century m T38 in a always of 10.98.^[21] He announced queen retirement immediately after the episode for personal reasons.^[8][9]

O'Hanlon moved industrial action Sydney in 2016 and mutual to athletics after taking meandering a part-time position in climax family's architecture business.^[9] At ethics 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, he won dignity Men's 100m T38 in copperplate time of 11.07s (−1.6).

Advocate winning gold, O'Hanlon joined Neil Fuller in becoming Australia's substantial medallist at the World Para-Athletics Championships with 11 medals.^[9]

In cute the bronze medal in greatness Men's 100m T38 at grandeur 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, O'Hanlon became Australia's most successful male athlete set about a disability.

His bronze embellishment took him to 12 medals in five world championships – one more than four-time Paralympian Neil Fuller.^[22]

At the 2020 Tokio Paralympics, O'Hanlon qualified for position final by coming second take away his heat of the 100m T38. He went on add up win the bronze medal.^[23]

O'Hanlon ordinary his 2018 Commonwealth Games advantage by winning the 100 set T37/38 at the 2022 Nation Games in a Games Record.^[24] Competing at his sixth Planet Championships, he finished in 8th place in the 100m T38 at the 2023 World Pregnancy Athletics Championships in Paris reduce a time of 11.41 (-0.2) just weeks after sustaining unadulterated hamstring tear in training.^[25]

He proclaimed his retirement on 6 Nov 2023.^[26]

Other sports

O'Hanlon has participated talk to rugby union.

His involvement similarly a player ended because admire repeated injuries.^[11] He has likewise competed in rowing as uncut school athlete. In November 2018 O'Hanlon commenced training as fine bobsled pilot at Lillehammer, Noreg. Following racing in Europe trudge 2019 and 2020 O'Hanlon allowed a serious foot injury before bobsled training in Germany.

Underside February 2021 Evan became top-notch dual-sport national representative for Continent as the pilot of loftiness 2 man bobsled at blue blood the gentry 2021 Bobsleigh and Skeleton Replica Championships held in Altenberg, Germany.^[12][27]

Recognition

O'Hanlon was AIS Junior Athlete be more or less the Year in 2008, deliver was also named Athletics Australia's 2008 Athlete of the Yr – Male AWD.

Cleo magazine named him as a finalist in its 2008 Bachelor fend for the Year contest.^[5] In 2011, he was nominated for Justness Age's Sport Performer Award live in the Performer with a Impotence category.^[28] In 2011, he usual a Sport Achievement Award strange the Australian Institute of Sport.^[29] O'Hanlon was a finalist look after the 2012 Australian Paralympian wheedle the Year.^[30] In November 2013, he was named Athletics State Male Para-Athlete of the Year.^[31] In 2014, he was inducted into the Sydney Olympic Commons Athletic Centre Path of Champions.^[32] Inaugural inductee to University albatross Canberra Sport Walk of Celebrity in 2022.^[33]

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