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 silver medal at 2019 World Para Track Championships. His aim is to compete at the 2020 Toyko Paralympics.
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.[1]
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. [1] He won the Men's Time Trial and Men's Individual Pursuit C2 at the 2019 Para Track Cycling National Championships.[2]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, he won the silver medal in the Men's 1km Time Trial C2. His time of 1min 12.873secs was a new world record but it was broken by the final competitor Alejandro Perea who just broke his new record by 0.005secs.[3] (1min12.838secs).
At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, he won the silver medal in Men's Time Trial C2. [4]
References
- ^ 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.
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