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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 March 1981 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 26 June 2012 (aged 31) Marrakai, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Education | |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprinting |
| Achievements and titles | |
| 2000 | |
National finals | 2005 and 2008 |
Highest world ranking | 6th at the 2003 World Indoor Championships |
Daniel Batman (20 March 1981 – 26 June 2012) was an Australian sprinter. He was the Australian national men's 200-metres champion in 2005 and 2008. He competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and his best international achievement was a sixth place at the 2003 World Indoor Championships.
Batman was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He attended The Scots College but left[why?] and then attended Cranbrook School. He trained at the Australian Institute of Sport but was cut from the program for his behaviour. He was fined and suspended from Athletics Australia.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Batman was married to Nova Peris, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, in March 2002; the couple separated in 2010. Batman had two children with Peris: Destiny and Jack. Batman had another child, Liberty, in late 2011 with partner Natalie Sainsbury.[2]
On 26 June 2012, Batman was killed in a car crash at Marrakai, southeast of Darwin, Northern Territory. He was 31.[3][4][5]
Unverified claims were repeated, claiming that Daniel Batman was a direct descendant of John Batman, the founder of Melbourne[6][7][1] but the claims did not reference any research sources or trace any lineage and are contrary to published research and records of John Batman, whose only son, John Charles Batman, died aged just eight years old and had no heirs to pass on the family name.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Brat's all folks: sprint ace Batman comes of age". Sydney Morning Herald. 5 March 2005.
- ↑ "Like a bat outta hell for London" Archived 1 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine. The Canberra Times, 16 December 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2012
- ↑ Frost, Carleen; Turner, Ellie (26 June 2012). "Australian Olympian Daniel Batman killed in NT car crash". Herald-Sun. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
- ↑ Williams, Jacqueline (26 June 2012). "Athlete Batman killed in car rollover". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ↑ "Aussie sprinter Batman killed in car crash". SBS News. 26 June 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ↑ "Olympian Daniel Batman killed in car crash - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC Online. ABC. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ Turnbull, Simon (19 March 2006). "Commonwealth Games: Batman big in land of his forefather". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 February 2026. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ Brown, P. L. (1966). "Batman, John (1801–1839)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 14 March 2008.
External links
[edit]- Daniel Batman at World Athletics
- Athletics Australia profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 September 2007)
- Daniel Batman at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Daniel Batman at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Daniel Batman at Olympics.com
- Daniel Batman at Olympedia
- Daniel Batman at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- ABC story on Batman's death
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