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 Telstra Australian 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]

Personal

Hocking was born in Wangaratta Victoria, she started swimming when she was 4. Belinda went to St. Bernands catholic primary school Wangaratta, Victoria. Her principal was Mark Walsh.[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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