The 23-year-old from Sydney, who has cerebral palsy, was competing against able-bodied counterparts in the race when he ran a blistering time of 10.91sec which was 0.05 quicker than his own world record of 10.96 which he set at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics.

However, the IPC have revealed that they cannot ratify the world record and that it must stand as an unofficial world record.

"There must be a number of controls in place for a world record to be ratified by the IPC," the IPC's media and communications senior manager Craig Spence told insideworldparasport.

"Unfortunately, due to the fact that there were not doping controls in place, we cannot ratify the world record set by Evan at the Brisbane Track Classic.

"It will therefore stand an unofficial world record."

However, the news is likely to serve only as a minor blow to O'Hanlon who will almost certainly better the time later in the year, most likely at the London 2012 Paralympics where his time would obviously be ratified by the IPC.

The Australian won three gold medals at Beijing 2008 in the T38 100 and 200m as well as in the 4x100m T35-38 relay and he will be one of Australia's biggest medal hopes at the London 2012 Paralympics.

O'Hanlon is looking to build on an outstanding season last year which saw him perform superbly at the Christchurch IPC World Championships to win four medals, including two golds.

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