Evans competed in the 1500m and 5000m at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics.[2]
In 1991, the Australian Institute of Sport established an Athletics with a Disability Program and he became an inaugural scholarship holder and was coached by Chris Nunn.
At the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, Evans competed in four events – 400m, 800m, 1500m and 5000m.[2]
Evans won three gold medals 800m, 1500m and 4 × 100 m T42-46 and a bronze medal in the 5000m at the 1st IPC Athletics World Championships in Berlin, Germany in 1994.[3]
At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, he won two gold medals in the Men's 4 × 100 m Relay T42-46 event and the Men's 1,500 m T44-46 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia,[1] and a silver medal in the Men's 800 m T44-46 event. He also competed in the 800m and 5000m.[2]
In an interview, Evans commented "I spent too many years not training seriously because it was too easy to win in disabled events without doing any work. It was only when I came to the AIS and started using able bodied athletes as a yardstick that I really improved."[4]
As of 2017, Evans is ranked the fifth in the leading male gold medallists tally for Australian Para-athletes at the IPC World Athletics Championships.[5]
in 2012, Evans had a place on the board of management at 'Limbs 4 Life' as the secretary of the organisation. The mission of this organisation is to provide information and support to amputees and their families.[6]
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