Anton Flavel

{{Short description|Australian Paralympic athlete (born 1969)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2012}}

{{Infobox sportsperson|

| name = Anton Flavel

| image = 150600 - Anton Flavel - 3a - 2000 Sydney media guide scan.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = 2000 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Flavel

| fullname = Anton James Flavel

| nicknames =

| nationality = {{AUS}}

| club =

| collegeteam =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|5|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Narrogin, Western Australia

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height =

| weight =

| medaltemplates=

{{MedalSport |Athletics}}

{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap}}

{{MedalGold | 1992 Madrid | Men's Javelin}}

{{MedalBronze | 1992 Madrid | Men's Discus}}

{{MedalBronze | 1992 Madrid | Men's High Jump}}

{{MedalCompetition| IPC World Championships}}

{{MedalGold | 1994 Berlin | Men's Shot Put F20}}

{{MedalBronze | 1998 Birmingham| Men's Shot Put F20}}

{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}

{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney |Men's Javelin F20}}

}}

Anton James Flavel, OAM{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/886392|title=Flavel, Anton James, OAM|publisher=It's an Honour|access-date=17 January 2012}} (born 3 May 1969){{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/athletes/athleteprofile7148.html|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20001205000000/http://www.paralympic.org.au/athletes/athleteprofile7148.html|archive-date=5 December 2000|title=Athlete's Profile|publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee|access-date=17 January 2012}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. He was born in the Western Australian town of Narrogin. In his disability class he held a world record for the javelin and an Australian record in the shot put and high jump.

Competing at the 1st World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability in Härnösand, Sweden, he won two gold medals in the Men's Javelin and the Men's Discus, and a bronze medal in the Men's Long Jump.{{cite news|title=Sport results and detail|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122282484|access-date=14 April 2015|work=Canberra Times|date=13 July 1989}} At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap in Madrid, Spain, which were held immediately after the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics,{{cite magazine|title=Paralympics for the mentally handicapped|first1=Karen P|last1=DePauw|first2=Sarah|last2=Rich|magazine=Palaestra|date=Winter 1993|volume=9|issue=2|pages=59–64}} he won a gold medal in the men's javelin, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He also won bronze medals in the Men's High Jump and Men's Discus.{{cite journal|last1=Australian Paralympic Federation|title=Media Releases Days 1 - 7, September 1992}} He was coached in Perth, Western Australia by Hilda Collier.

At the IPC Athletics World Championships in the Men's Shot Put F20 , he won a gold medal in 1994 and a bronze medal in 1998.{{cite journal|title=AIS Athletes Leave Their Mark on IPC World Track and Field Championships|journal=Sports Chat|date=August 1998|issue=49|pages=1}}{{cite web|title=Anton Flavel|url=http://athhistory.imgstg.com/athletes/athlete6483.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102755/http://athhistory.imgstg.com/athletes/athlete6483.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2 April 2015|website=Australian Athletics Historical Results|access-date=28 March 2015}} At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Javelin F20 event,{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&name=Flavel&fname=Anton&gender=all |title=Athlete Search Results |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=17 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407075752/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&name=Flavel&fname=Anton&gender=all |archive-date=7 April 2014 }} and came ninth in the Men's Shot Put F20 event.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results.php?eclass=F20&sport=athletics&competition=2000PG&gender=m&discipline=&event=Shot%20Put|title=Men's Shot Put F20 Results|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|access-date=17 January 2012}}

In 1997, he became the first intellectually disabled athlete to receive a residential scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and was coached by Chris Nunn.{{cite web|url=http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1998/ascmedia/19980124.html |title=Doors Open for AIS Disabled |publisher=Australian Sports Commission |date=23 January 1997 |access-date=17 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330012350/http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1998/ascmedia/19980124.html |archive-date=30 March 2011 }} The move to the AIS highlighted the more professional approach to training. In Perth, he was doing three sessions per week and at the AIS he was doing thirteen sessions.

He left the AIS after the 2000 Sydney Games.{{cite web|url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/136197/Spring2001.pdf|title=AIS Alumni News|publisher=Australian Institute of Sport|date=Spring 2001|access-date=11 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151737/http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/136197/Spring2001.pdf|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}}

In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/972167|title=Flavel, Anton James: Australian Sports Medal|publisher=It's an Honour|access-date=17 January 2012}}

He married Trish Flavel, who won a bronze medal in the Women's 800m T20 at the 2000 Sydney Games. {{citation needed|date=February 2012}}