Gordon Allan
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Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
Born | 3 April 1998 | |||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||||
Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||||
Disability class | C2 | |||||||||||||
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Gordon Allan (born 3 April 1998) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist who has won a silver medal at 2019 World Para Track Championships. He has been selected to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. [1] He is studying a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at Western Sydney University.[2]
Personal[]
Allan was born 3 April 1998. Allan was born with cerebral palsy affecting his four limbs due to a loss of oxygen at birth. He attended Patrician Brothers' College, Blacktown.[3]
Cycling[]
Before committing to cycling, Allan was active in athletics, swimming, and football. He represented Australia at the Football World Championship Under 19 at the 2015 CPISRA World Games.
Allan is classified as a C2 cyclist. His cycling ability was spotted at an Australian Paralympic Committee talent search day at Blacktown and he subsequently joined the Parramatta Cycling Club and commenced training at the Western Sydney Academy of Sport at Homebush. Allan took up cycling seriously in 2013. In 2016 as a 17 year old , he won the Men's Road Race and the Men's Time C2 at the Australian Championships but he was not selected for the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[3] He won the Men's Time Trial and Men's Individual Pursuit C2 at the 2019 Para Track Cycling National Championships.[4]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, he won the silver medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial C2. His time of 1min 12.873secs was a new world record but it was broken by the final competitor who just broke his new record by 0.005secs.[5] (1min12.838secs).
At the , Milton, Ontario, he won the silver medal in Men's Time Trial C2.[6]
References[]
- ^ "World And Paralympic Champions Feature Among Tokyo-Bound Para-Cyclists". Paralympics Australia. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Athlete of the Month - December 2017". CPSARA website. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Conway, Doug (15 March 2016). "Double gold for para-cyclist Gordon Allan at national para-cycling championship". Blacktown Advocate. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "National success for para cyclists in Melbourne". NSW Institute of Sport website.
- ^ "Allan's silver lining in time trial". Australian Cycling Team website. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Australia secure eight world titles at 2020 Para-cycling Track World Championships". Cycling Australia website. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
External links[]
- Paralympic cyclists of Australia
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Australian male cyclists
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors