Allan Butler
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Full name | Allan Robert Butler | |||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||
Born | 1976 | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Allan Robert Butler, OAM[1] (born 1976) [2] from Tumut, New South Wales is an Australian Paralympic athlete.[3] In 1993, Butler moved to Canberra to take up a residential scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport.[4]
He won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m Relay TS2,4 event.[5] He also competed in the Men's 100 m TS4, Men's 200 m TS4 and Men's 400 m TS4 but did not medal.[5]
Butler continues to be involved in Little Athletics in Tumut.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Butler, Allan Robert". It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "Allan Butler". Athletics Australia Historical Results. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Barcelona Paralympics 1992 Australian Team Members Profile Handbook" (PDF). Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 25 January 2015.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "Institute nominates 'para-scholarships'". Canberra Times. 6 January 1993. p. 35. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "Tumut Council Sports Committee" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
Categories:
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Living people
- 1976 births
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic track and field athletes
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Australian male sprinters
- Sprinters with limb difference
- Paralympic sprinters
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- People from Tumut
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Australian athletics biography stubs
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