Further Information 

Competition Stats

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS:
100 metres ambulant: 2006 - 1st, 2007 - 1st
200 metres ambulant: 2007 - 1st

INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS:
IPC World Championships: 2006 - T35-T38 4 x 100m 1st, T35-T38 4 x 400m 1st, T38 200m 3rd

ANNUAL PROGRESSION:

100 metres:
2005  11.96
2006  11.92
2007  11.18

200 metres:
2005  23.50
2006  23.30
2007  22.49

EVENTS/PERSONAL BESTS:
100m: 11.18 - Canberra, 17/11/07
200m: 22.49 - Brisbane, 10/03/07

RECORD(S):
World and national T38 record - 100m: 11.18 - Canberra, 17/11/07
World and national T38 record - 200m: 22.49 - Brisbane, 10/03/07

Interesting Facts

Evan’s condition is congenital (from birth). He attended St Joseph’s College in Sydney and represented the school in a range of sports including rugby, rowing and athletics. His involvement in school sport was in an able-bodied environment through to Year 12.

Sporting Career

DISABILITY CLASSIFICATION: T38
Cerebral palsy (relatively minimal dysfunction)

Evan was recruited to Paralympic sport in 2005 thanks to the watchful eye of NSW Paralympic Talent Search Co-ordinator and multiple Paralympic gold medallist Amy Winters. He moved to the Australian Institute of Sport in December 2005 to train full-time with coach Iryna Dvoskina.

Evan’s international career commenced with mixed fortune at the 2006 IPC World Athletics Championships in Assen, Holland. A member of the victorious 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m male CP relay teams and tasted some individual success with a bronze medal in the T38 200m. However, in his pet event - the T38 100m - he was controversially disqualified in the semi-final.

Personal disappointment with his individual results in Assen has served as motivation for an increased commitment to his preparation for Beijing. During the 2006-07 domestic season, Evan recorded a series of world-class performances, culminating in world records in the T38 100m and T38 200m. The latter came at the Australian Championships in Brisbane, which was also Evan’s first national title over 200m.

In November 2007, Evan broke his own 100m world record with a run of 11.18 at the ACT AWD Championships.

At just 19, he has now overtaken fellow Australian and former world record holder Tim Sullivan as the fastest male cerebral palsy athlete in the world. Exciting times lay ahead.

Family connections
Evan’s family are closely associated with the sport of rowing. His sister Elsa has rowed for Australia and his father Terry is a highly regarded rowing coach. Evan also rowed for St Joseph’s College at open level.