Evan O'Hanlon

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Paralympic competitor from Australia

Australia AthletesBorn 1988 · age 38

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Evan George O'Hanlon, is an Australian Paralympic athlete, who competes mainly in category T38 sprint events. He has won five gold medals at two Paralympic Games - 2008 Beijing and 2012 London.

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The gold medal O'Hanlon won in the 100 m T38 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, on display at the Australian Institute of Sport

O'Hanlon interviewed after receiving the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year award at the Australian Paralympian of the Year ceremony

O'Hanlon training at the AIS in 2012

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2009Medal of the Order of Australia

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Evan George O'Hanlon, is an Australian Paralympic athlete, who competes mainly in category T38 sprint events. He has won five gold medals at two Paralympic Games - 2008 Beijing and 2012 London. He also represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, winning a silver medal and a bronze medal respectively. In winning the bronze medal in the Men's 100m T38 at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, O'Hanlon became Australia's most successful male athlete with a disability. His bronze medal took him to 12 medals in five world championships - one more than four-time Paralympian Neil Fuller.

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Australia