Allan Butler

{{short description|Australian Paralympic athlete}}

{{for|the American medical practitioner|Allan Macy Butler}}

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{{MedalSport |Athletics}}

{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}

{{MedalGold | 1992 Barcelona |Men's 4x100 m Relay TS2,4}}

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Allan Robert Butler, OAM{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/886378|title=Butler, Allan Robert|publisher=It's an Honour|accessdate=1 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062153/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=886378&search_type=advanced&showInd=true|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}} (born 1976) {{cite web|title=Allan Butler|url=http://athletics.com.au/Results/Historical-Results|website=Athletics Australia Historical Results|accessdate=12 January 2015}} from Tumut, New South Wales is an Australian Paralympic athlete.{{cite web|title=Barcelona Paralympics 1992 Australian Team Members Profile Handbook|url=http://paralympic.org.au/sites/default/files/Australian-Team-Media-Profiles.pdf|publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee|accessdate=25 January 2015}}{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1993, Butler moved to Canberra to take up a residential scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport.{{cite news|title=Institute nominates 'para-scholarships'|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126967237|accessdate=12 January 2015|work=Canberra Times|date=6 January 1993|page=35 }}

He won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m Relay TS2,4 event.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=AUS&gender=all&medal=medals&sport=all&games=1992PG|title=Athlete Search Results|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=1 January 2012}} 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.

Butler continues to be involved in Little Athletics in Tumut.{{cite web|title=Tumut Council Sports Committee|url=http://www.tumut.nsw.gov.au/f.ashx/Content/Sports-Committee-Agenda-04-September-2012.pdf|accessdate=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402225257/http://www.tumut.nsw.gov.au/f.ashx/Content/Sports-Committee-Agenda-04-September-2012.pdf|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}