HOCKIN Benjamin

Date of Birth: 27 Sep 1986

Age: 34

Gender: Male

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: BARRANQUILLA

Birth Country:

Colombia

Place of residence : ASUNCION

Residence Country:

Paraguay

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 100m Freestyle
	Men's 100m Butterfly

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Freestyle - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Butterfly - Heat 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	100Fly	4x100Free M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (50.26)	-	-	-
2012	London, GBR	H (50.12)	H (1:48.91)	H (53.65)	-
2008	Beijing, CHN	-	-	-	8th (3:12.87)

World Championships

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	50Fly	100Fly	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (49.95)	-	H (24.23)	H (53.78)	-	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (49.78)	-	H (23.93)	H (53.51)	H (3:25.98)	H (3:45.91)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (50.19)	H (1:49.60)	H (24.24)	H (53.92)	H (3:28.04)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	H (49.61)	H (1:51.46)	H (23.94)	H (53.28)	-	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	H (50.03)	H (1:49.85)	SF (23.95)	H (53.23)	-	-
2007	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	-	-	-	-	H (3:18.96)	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	100Fly	4x100Medley M
2019	Lima, PER	H (23.26)	Final B (49.89)	7th (53.70)	6th (3:43.75)

South American Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200Free	50Fly	100Fly	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2021	Buenos Aires, ARG	H (23.83)	6th (50.75)	-	7th (24.97)	H (57.14)	-	-
2018	Cochabamba, BOL	6th (23.09)	5th (50.34)	3rd (1:52.03)	-	4th (54.68)	4th (3:27.66)	4th (3:46.73)

World Championships Short Course - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200Free	50Fly	100Fly
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (22.10)	H (47.91)	H (1:48.11)	H (23.37)	H (52.13)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	-	SF (47.65)	H (1:47.41)	H (23.48)	H (52.71)

World Championships Short Course - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	100IndMed	4x50Free M	4x50Free X	4x50Medley M	4x100Free	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (53.82)	-	-	-	-	-
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (54.17)	H (1:30.46)	H (1:37.00)	H (DSQ)	H (3:20.45)	H (3:37.38)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Benji (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)

Travelling. (lanacion.com.py, 14 Jul 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Business Owner

International Relations - American University, Asuncion, PAR

Wife Giulietta, daughter Sienna Vittoria

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

Club Benjamin Hockin [Asuncion, PAR]

Jose Manuel Lobo [club, national]

Sporting relatives:

His brother Charles has represented Paraguay in swimming at the world championships. (lanacion.com.py, 14 Jul 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 25 Feb 2021)

2006 for Great Britain, in Finland (British Swimming, 07 May 2007)

He began swimming at age four and began competing at age seven. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021; Paraguay TV YouTube channel, 08 Jul 2019)

His mother enrolled him and his two brothers into swimming. "I was a baby when my mother first placed me in the water with my two brothers as a way to keep us busy since we were three boys in a row. And since then I loved being in the water, whether it was playing, swimming or just being there. And to this day there is no time when I don't like being in the water. It is my passion, my habitat, my world, my favorite place." (Paraguay TV YouTube channel, 08 Jul 2019; lanacion.com.py, 14 Jul 2019; Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ip.gov.py, 23 May 2020)

US swimmer Michael Phelps. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)

Philosophy:

"Give your everything, even when you believe it is no possible." (lanacion.com.py, 14 Jul 2019)

He was Paraguay's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (lanacion.com.py, 15 Jun 2012)

General Interest

General
CLUB
In 2020 he launched Benjamin Hockin Club in Asuncion, Paraguay. "I had been giving some swimming training clinics at national level, encouraging kids to practise a sport. The idea is to give a new structure to Paraguayan swimming, another option. I see this as something positive for our swimming sport." (independiente.com.py, 16 Sep 2020)

REPRESENTING GREAT BRITAIN AND PARAGUAY
He was born in Colombia to a British father and Paraguayan mother. He grew up swimming in Paraguay before moving with his father as a teenager to Tenerife, Spain. At age 18 he went to Wales and swam for a high performance centre there, and then represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. "In 2010, I decided to return to Paraguay and settle here. I took part in the South American Games [in March 2010] where for the first time I won four medals for the country." In December 2010 he was suspended for a year for not officially notifying the International Swimming Federation [FINA] of his nationality switch. The ban was backdated to May 2010 and he returned to competition in 2011. (swimswam.com, 10 Dec 2010; asiaone.com, 2012)

Milestones

He became the first swimmer from Paraguay to win a medal at the Pan American Games when he claimed bronze in the 200m freestyle at the 2011 edition in Guadalajara, Mexico. (lanacion.com.py, 14 Jul 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 25 Feb 2021)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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