Evan George O'Hanlon, OAM[1] (born 4 May 1988) is an Australian Paralympic athlete, who competes mainly in category T38 sprint events.

He has five sisters, one of whom, Elsa, rowed for Australia's national team and won the World University lightweight sculling Championship in Trakai, Lithuania in 2006.

[8] After the Rio Paralympics, he moved to Sydney to work part-time in the family's architecture business.

[11] In December, he moved to Canberra and started training full-time with Irina Dvoskina at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) from 2005 to 2016.

[4] In 2005, O'Hanlon competed at the German Nationals and European Championships in the 100 m and 200 m events at his first overseas competition.

[5][11] One of his early goals was to beat the times of fellow Paralympian athlete Tim Sullivan.

He accomplished this, and was on a sprint team with Sullivan that won a Paralympic gold medal in the 4x100 m event in Beijing.

[15] At the 2012 London Games, O'Hanlon repeated his Beijing success in winning the Men's 100 m and 200 m T38 events.

[16] Competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, O'Hanlon won gold medals in the Men's 100 m, 200 m and 400 m T38 events.

[19] O'Hanlon was forced to withdraw from the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha due to a stress fracture in his back.

[8][9] O'Hanlon moved to Sydney in 2016 and returned to athletics after taking up a part-time position in his family's architecture business.

In winning gold, O'Hanlon joined Neil Fuller in becoming Australia's leading medallist at the World Para-Athletics Championships with 11 medals.

Following racing in Europe in 2019 and 2020 O'Hanlon suffered a serious foot injury during bobsled training in Germany.

In February 2021 Evan became a dual-sport national representative for Australia as the pilot of the 2 man bobsled at the 2021 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships held in Altenberg, Germany.