HODGSON Jack

Great Britain
Judo
30 Sep 1996
24
Male
B2
CARDIFF
 
Great Britain
GREAT BRITAIN

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
JUD Judo Men +100 kg 9

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Followed by 		Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1
Men +100 kg Elimination Round of 16
#5
AZE
ZAKIYEV IZAKIYEV Ilham
 Sport Class: B1
1s2
WAZ
GBR
HODGSON JHODGSON Jack
 Sport Class: B2
0s1
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocation
Paralympic Games
7Men +100 kg2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
9Men +100 kg2014Colorado Springs, CO, USA
13Men +100 kg2018Odivelas, POR
European Championships
3Men +100 kg2019Genoa, ITA
5Men +100 kg2017Walsall, GBR
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Wrap it Ralph, Big Jack (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016; Facebook profile, 05 Sep 2020)
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Playing video games, walking his dog. (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016; The Handiscover Accessible Travel Chat podcast, 18 Sep 2019)
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Athlete
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Exercise Science, Sports Science - University of Wolverhampton, Great Britain
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Partner Becca Louise Anderson
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English
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Grimsby Judo Club [Great Britain]
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Terry Alltoft [club], GBR, from 2014; Ian Johns [national], GBR
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His brother Dylan is a judoka at Grimsby Judo Club and has competed at national level. (paralympics.org.uk, 28 Jul 2019)
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He has competed in able-bodied judo and took part in England squads at junior level. (onsidepr.com, 20 Jan 2016)
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2014 for Great Britain, World Championships (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)
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In 2018 he underwent reconstructive elbow surgery and was unable to compete for three months. He underwent a second elbow operation in November 2020. (Instagram profile, 21 Nov 2020; SportSpiel podcast, 11 Nov 2018)

In 2016 he sustained an ankle injury, which he aggravated while competing at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. As a result he required surgery, which kept him out of action for seven months. (gainsboroughstandard.co.uk, 10 Jul 2017)
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He took up the sport at age eight while his family lived on a Royal Air Force base in Northern Ireland. (onsidepr.com, 20 Jan 2016)
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He had the choice to join either a ballet or judo club at the RAF base his family lived on. "My mum made me do ballet first. I didn't mind it, but my body wasn't quite suited to it. I did it for a couple of weeks but it wasn't for me so I then chose judo. At first it was just something to do but as we went on it got a bit more fun. I started to take it seriously when I first got into the England squad, the mainstream one. We started winning a few competitions but then found out I was visually impaired so came across to this [Para judo] squad and it just went up and up." (paralympics.org.uk, 28 Jul 2019; onsidepr.com, 20 Jan 2016; standard.co.uk, 09 Sep 2016)

General Interest

Classification
B2 (IBSA, 27 Apr 2021)

Type of Impairment
Vision impairment (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 01 Apr 2016)

Impairment Details
He has Usher syndrome, which affects his hearing and vision. He has profound deafness, and has had tunnel vision since age 12 due to retinitis pigmentosa. (blog.sense.org.uk, 06 Sep 2016; handiscover.com, 18 Sep 2019; onsidepr.com, 20 Jan 2016)

General
GROWING UP
He spent his childhood living on a Royal Air Force [RAF] base as his father was in the British Army. He says it was a different upbringing to most children but it helped him grow up. "You'd normally have one shop, there's normally a pub or something and it's just a small community. We all know each other. You'd walk down a street and you'd know that guy, he's your dad's pal, but there's not a lot of kids around. The majority of the kids at the school you go to are Army kids so you don't really get away from it. But it was a good area to grow up in. It teaches you respect, it teaches you how to be a proper adult." (SportSpiel podcast, 11 Nov 2018)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
WAZ:
Waza-Ari
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