Evan O'Hanlon

Evan O'Hanlon

2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of O'Hanlon
Personal information
Full name	Evan George O'Hanlon
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1988-05-04) 4 May 1988 (age 28) Sydney, New South Wales
Height	183 cm (72 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Website	evanohanlon.com
Medal record Men's paralympic athletics Representing  Australia Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing 100 m T38 2008 Beijing 200 m T38 2008 Beijing 4 x 100 m T35–38 2012 London 100 m T38 2012 London 200 m T38 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T38 IPC World Championships 2006 Assen 4 x 100 m T35–38 2006 Assen 4 x 400 m T35–38 2011 Christchurch 100 m T38 2011 Christchurch 200 m T38 2013 Lyon 100 m T38 2013 Lyon 200 m T38 2013 Lyon 400 m T38 2011 Christchurch 400 m T38 2006 Assen 200 m T38 2011 Christchurch 4 x 100 m T35–38

Evan George O'Hanlon, OAM (born 4 May 1988) 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 represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

O'Hanlon was born on 4 May 1988 in Sydney. He is 183 centimetres (6.00 ft) tall and weighs 78 kilograms (172 lb). He has cerebral palsy due to a prenatal stroke. He attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. He has five sisters, one of whom is Elsa O'Hanlon who rowed for Australia's national team and won the World University lightweight sculling Championship in Trakai, Lithuania in 2006. His father Terry O'Hanlon, who is heavily involved with rowing in Australia, has represented Australia on the international level. His mother has also represented Australia as a member of a national rowing squad. As of October 2011^[update], he is working on a degree in landscape architecture. He is not married, and resides in Canberra and Sydney. He is married to Zuzana Schindlerova, a Czech Republic race walker.

O'Hanlon mainly competes in category T38 sprint events. Before the start of his last year of high school, he competed only against able bodied athletes. In 2005, New South Wales Paralympic Talent Search Co-ordinator Amy Winters, herself a former Paralympian, recruited him to participate in Paralympic sport. That year, he represented Australia for the first time. In December, he moved to Canberra and started training full-time with Irina Dvoskina.

As of October 2011^[update], he is coached by Irina Dvoskina, and has a scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). When competing on the club level, he represents UTS North. At the age of nineteen, his records made him the fastest male cerebral palsy competitor in the world. During his career, he has had to deal with painful shin splits.