Don Evans (athlete)
Cyril Vardon "Don" Evans (24 October 1909 – 26 February 1980) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner who represented his country at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.At one such competition in March 1929 he won the 440 yards, 880 yards and 1 mile events, and collected a purse of £35,[2] but at a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association in October 1929 he was reinstated as an amateur.[3] At the 1930 national amateur athletics championships, Evans won both the 880 yards and 1 mile titles,[4] but he was not selected for the New Zealand team to the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, as he was deemed ineligible because of his earlier professional status.[4] Following negotiations between the New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association and the English Amateur Athletics Association later in 1931, Evans was deemed eligible to compete at the Olympic Games.[7] He was duly selected as a member of the New Zealand team to compete at the 1932 Olympics, where he finished fifth in his 800 m heat and did not progress.