Belinda Hocking

Belinda Hocking
Personal information
Full name Belinda Jane Hocking
Nickname(s) "Bindy"
National team  Australia
Born (1990-09-14) 14 September 1990
Wangaratta, Victoria
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Nunawading
Coach Rohan Taylor

Belinda Jane Hocking[1] (born 14 September 1990) is an Australian backstroke swimmer. She is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Career

Hocking was fifth in the 200-metre back and sixth in the 50 and 100m back at the Telstra Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane in December 2007, won gold in 4×200-metre freestyle and was fourth in 200-metre backstroke at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Maui, Hawaii, claimed gold in the 100- and 200-metre backstroke and 4×100-metre medley relay, to go with silver in the 4×100-metre and 4×200-metre freestyle relays at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney, won gold in the 100- and 200-metre backstroke and bronze in the 200-metre freestyle at the Australian Age Championships in Perth, won silver in 100-metre backstroke, was fourth in 50-metre backstroke and fifth in 200-metre backstroke at the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships in Melbourne, and placed third in the 100-metre backstroke at the FINA World Cup in Sydney [2]

Hocking qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and came eighth in the 200-metre backstroke. She placed second in the 200-metre backstroke, and was third in 100-metre backstroke at the Australian Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials in Sydney. She won silver in the 4×100-metre medley (heat swim), and came fifth in the 100-metre backstroke and sixth in the 50-metre backstroke at the FINA World Short Course Championships in Manchester. She set a Commonwealth record in 50-metre backstroke at World Short Course Championships and she won 100- and 200-metre backstroke at the Monaco leg of the Mare Nostrum series. She was also second in 100- and 200-metre backstroke at the Barcelona leg of the Mare Nostrum series.[3]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Hocking came fifth in the 200 metre backstroke.

Personal

Hocking was born in Wangaratta Victoria, she started swimming when she was 4. Belinda went to St. Bernard's Catholic Primary School Wangaratta, Victoria. Her principal was Mark Walsh. She swims at Nunawading Swimming Club Inc. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Results – Tuesday 5 October". BBC Sport. 5 October 2010. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  2. ↑ "Belinda Hocking" (PDF). Belinda Hocking. Clubsonline. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "Belinda Hocking" (PDF). Belinda Hocking. Clubsonline. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "Belinda Hocking" (PDF). Belinda Hocking. Clubsonline. Retrieved 17 April 2010.

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