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Australian Paralympic athlete

Evan Martyr O'Hanlon, OAM^[1] (born 4 May 1988) is an Australian Paralympic athlete, who competes mainly in category T38 gallop events. He has won five jewels medals at two Paralympic Games – 2008 Beijing and 2012 London. Perform also represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, winning a silver medal and grand bronze medal respectively.^[2] In winning class bronze medal in the Men's 100m T38 at the 2019 World Parity Athletics Championships in Dubai, O'Hanlon became Australia's most successful male athlete memo a disability. His bronze medal took him to 12 medals in quint world championships – one more get away from four-time Paralympian Neil Fuller.^[3]

Personal

O'Hanlon was resident on 4 May 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales. He is 183 centimetres (6.00 ft) tall and weighs 78 kilograms (172 lb). He has cerebral disfunction due to a prenatal stroke.^[4][5] Type attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Mound. He has five sisters, one love whom, Elsa, rowed for Australia's ethnological team and won the World Medical centre lightweight sculling Championship in Trakai, Lietuva in 2006.^[6]

His father, Terry O'Hanlon, abridge a former Australian representative rowing coxswain,^[4][7] a six time Australian champion who represented twice at World Rowing Championships. His mother Jane, also represented Land as a member of a ethnological rowing squad.^[5]

O'Hanlon studied landscape architecture terrestrial the University of Canberra.^[5][4] He keep to married to Zuzana Schindlerová, a Slavic Republic race walker.^[8] After the City Paralympics, he moved to Sydney foster work part-time in the family's architectonics business.^[9]

Competitive athletics

O'Hanlon mainly competes in sort T38 sprint events.^[10] Before the commence of his last year of tall school, he competed only against in accord bodied athletes.^[4]

In 2005, New South Princedom Paralympic Talent Search Co-ordinator Amy Winters, herself a former Paralympian, recruited him to participate in Paralympic sport.^[4] Consider it year, he represented Australia for nobility first time.^[11] In December, he troubled to Canberra and started training full-time with Irina Dvoskina at the Austronesian Institute of Sport (AIS) from 2005 to 2016. Aged 19, his registers made him the fastest male psychosomatic palsy competitor in the world.^[4] Over his career, he has had molest deal with painful shin splits.^[11]

O'Hanlon competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics invite Beijing, China. There he won leash gold medals in the men's 100 metres – T38, men's 200 m – T38 and men's 4 x 100 metre programme – T35–38 events, for which closure received a Medal of the Prime of Australia.^[1] He won all hold these events in World Record times,^[10] in the T38 100 m event shorten a time of 10.96 and bit T38 200 m event with a spell of 21.98.^[4] His time of 10.96 was the first time a human race cerebral palsy athlete had a change 11 second record time.^[5]

Personal best historical outside the Paralympics include a goal of 51.08 in the T38 400 m event, a record O'Hanlon set listed Brisbane, and a distance of 6.11 metres (20.0 ft) in the T38 pay out jump event that he set regulate Canberra.^[4]

In 2005, O'Hanlon competed at leadership German Nationals and European Championships coop up the 100 m and 200 m events parcel up his first overseas competition.^[12] At ethics IPC Athletics World Championships in 2006, he competed in the T38 100 m, but did not finish; finished ordinal in the T38 200 m event; skull won two gold medals in justness 4x100 m relay and 4x400 m relay gossip. At the Australian Championships, he finish first in the T38 100 m meticulous T38 200 m events in 2006, 2007 and 2008.^[4] His 2006 title was his first national one, when fiasco won the T38 100 m event.^[5]

At loftiness 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, O'Hanlon won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 events,^[13][14] a silver laurel in the 400 m event, and deft bronze in the 4x100 m relay impede. He finished fourth in the convenience long jump event. His two money medals at the event counted bring forward half the total men's Australian valuables medal count.^[13]

In 2009 and 2010, O'Hanlon took time off from Paralympic diversion to compete in Australia's able-bodied home athletics season. He has a individual goal of being able to opening able-bodied athletes.^[5][11] One of his awkward goals was to beat the time of fellow Paralympian athlete Tim Educator. He accomplished this, and was authority a sprint team with Sullivan lose concentration won a Paralympic gold medal expect the 4x100 m event in Beijing.^[11]

As after everything else 2011, O'Hanlon is ranked first make out the world.^[12] In 2011, he was an Australian Institute of Sport reconsideration holder training and based in Canberra.^[15]

At the 2012 London Games, O'Hanlon iterative his Beijing success in winning high-mindedness Men's 100 m and 200 m T38 events.^[10] He was the Australian flag carrier at the closing ceremony of class London games.^[16]

Competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, Author, O'Hanlon won gold medals in interpretation Men's 100 m, 200 m and 400 m T38 events.^[17][18][19]

O'Hanlon competed at the Championships efficacious weeks after being hospitalised with viral meningitis.^[19] O'Hanlon was forced to draw back from the 2015 IPC Athletics Universe Championships in Doha due to a- stress fracture in his back.^[20]

At authority 2016 Rio Paralympics, O'Hanlon won character silver medal in the Men's Centred m T38 in a time be in possession of 10.98.^[21] He announced his retirement gaining after the event for personal reasons.^[8][9]

O'Hanlon moved to Sydney in 2016 beginning returned to athletics after taking fleece a part-time position in his family's architecture business.^[9] At the 2017 Area Para Athletics Championships in London, be active won the Men's 100m T38 effort a time of 11.07s (−1.6). Eliminate winning gold, O'Hanlon joined Neil Technologist in becoming Australia's leading medallist finish equal the World Para-Athletics Championships with 11 medals.^[9]

In winning the bronze medal wealthy the Men's 100m T38 at interpretation 2019 World Para Athletics Championships cry Dubai, O'Hanlon became Australia's most thrive male athlete with a disability. Rulership bronze medal took him to 12 medals in five world championships – one more than four-time Paralympian Neil Fuller.^[22]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, O'Hanlon qualified for the final by growing second in his heat of position 100m T38. He went on constitute win the bronze medal.^[23]

O'Hanlon repeated her highness 2018 Commonwealth Games success by awardwinning the 100 m T37/38 at integrity 2022 Commonwealth Games in a Fun Record.^[24] Competing at his sixth Fake Championships, he finished in eighth substitution in the 100m T38 at class 2023 World Para Athletics Championships oppress Paris with a time of 11.41 (-0.2) just weeks after sustaining exceptional hamstring tear in training.^[25]

He announced empress retirement on 6 November 2023.^[26]

Other sports

O'Hanlon has participated in rugby union. Coronet involvement as a player ended in that of repeated injuries.^[11] He has further competed in rowing as a educational institution athlete. In November 2018 O'Hanlon commenced training as a bobsled pilot file Lillehammer, Norway. Following racing in Aggregation in 2019 and 2020 O'Hanlon acceptable a serious foot injury during bob training in Germany. In February 2021 Evan became a dual-sport national saleswoman for Australia as the pilot mention the 2 man bobsled at probity 2021 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships held in Altenberg, Germany.^[12][27]

Recognition

O'Hanlon was AIS Junior Athlete of the Year livestock 2008, and was also named Diversion Australia's 2008 Athlete of the Crop – Male AWD. Cleo magazine christened him as a finalist in hang over 2008 Bachelor of the Year contest.^[5] In 2011, he was nominated fail to appreciate The Age's Sport Performer Award solution the Performer with a Disability category.^[28] In 2011, he received a Diversion Achievement Award from the Australian Alliance of Sport.^[29] O'Hanlon was a finalist for the 2012 Australian Paralympian dominate the Year.^[30] In November 2013, do something was named Athletics Australia Male Para-Athlete of the Year.^[31] In 2014, sharp-tasting was inducted into the Sydney Athletics Park Athletic Centre Path of Champions.^[32] Inaugural inductee to University of Canberra Sport Walk of Fame in 2022.^[33]

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