Fabian Blattman

In 1985, Blattman competed at the Royal North Shore Paraplegic Games in the bowls event.^[5]

Blattman started participating in wheelchair athletics to improve his general fitness level.^[3] At the 1988 Seoul Games, he came fifth in the first heat of the Men's 200 m 1A – event.^[8][9] He competed in the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1989 and 1990.^[7] In 1990, at the World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands he won a gold medal in the men's 4x100 m relay T1 event and two bronze medals in the 100 m and 200 m T1 events.^[7][10] He won a silver medal in the 4×100 m event and a bronze medal in the 4×400 m event at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.^[11] At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a gold medal in the 1500 m event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia,^[1] and a silver medal in the 800 m event.^[11] In 1998, Blattman won the Men's Marathon (T51) event at the World Championships.^[12] At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the men's 400 m T51 event, a silver medal in the men's 1500 m T51 event, and a bronze medal in the men's 800 m T51 event.^[9] That year, he received an Australian Sports Medal.^[13] In 2002, Blattman came in first in the T51 Quads event at the Arrive Alive Summer Down Under Wheelchair Track and Road Racing Series 10k event, with a time of 37.52.^[14] He competed at the 2010 Optus Grand Prix in Canberra in the Men & Women 5,000 metres wheelchair event, but he did not finish.^[15]

He won the Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race T51 event nine times, firstly in 1992 and then in each year from 1995 to 2002.^[16]

Blattman has held several world records in athletics.^[4] These include:

• 1990: 4x100 and 4x400 m events at the 1990 Stoke Mandeville Games^[7]
• 1991: 1500 m^[7]
• 1995: 2:40.15 in the men's T51 800 m event in Etobicoke, Canada on 25 June^[17]
• 1998: 05:01.49 in the 1500 m and 16:51.81 in the 5000 m at the Summer Down Under international wheelchair track meeting at Sydney International Athletic Centre on 28 January^[18][19]
• 1999: 16:46.95 in the 5000 m at the Summer Down Under international wheelchair track meeting at Sydney International Athletic Centre on 29 January^[19][20]

He had an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship from 1994 to 2000 in Athletics.^[21] His coach was Andrew Dawes, who has worked with Paralympic gold medalists Louise Sauvage and Greg Smith.^[22]

• Fabian Blattman – Athletics Australia Results