Gordon Allan (born 3 April 1998) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist who won a silver medal at 2019 World Para Track Championships. He competed at the

2020 Tokyo Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic ...

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 Patrician Brothers' College, Blacktown is a Roman Catholic single-sex secondary day school for boys, located in Blacktown, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History The College was founded in 1952 by the Patrician Broth ...

. He is studying a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at Western Sydney University.

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 ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

. He won the Men's Time Trial and Men's Individual Pursuit C2 at the 2019 Para Track Cycling National Championships. At the

2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships The 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling with athletes with a physical disability. The Championships took place in Apeldoorn, Netherlands from 14 to 17 March 2019. The championships Apeldo ...

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 Alejandro Perea who just broke his new record by 0.005secs. (1min12.838secs). At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, he won the bronze medal in Men's Time Trial C2. At the

, Allan finished fifth in the Men's time trial C1–3 and ninth together with

Meg Lemon Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics where she won a bronze medal. Personal Lemon was born on 5 October 1989. She attended Sacred Heart College in Adelai ...

and Amanda Reid in the Mixed team sprint C1–5. At the

2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships The 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were held from 20 to 23 October 2022, at the Vélodrome National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Results Men Women Mixed Medal table References {{reflist External linksResults

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines () is a new town and an agglomeration community in the French department of Yvelines. It is one of the original five villes nouvelles (new towns) of Paris and was named after the Saint Quentin Pond, which was chosen to ...

, France, he won two bronze medals - Men's Time Trial C2 and Mixed Team Sprint C1-5.

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Gordon Allan
at Cycling Australia (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Allan, Gordon Paralympic cyclists for Australia Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics 1998 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors Place of birth missing (living people) People educated at Patrician Brothers' College, Blacktown