HODGE Timothy

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
4	4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	4:18.08
5	200m Individual Medley - SM9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	2:21.14
6	100m Backstroke - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1:05.18
9	400m Freestyle - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	4:29.53
10	100m Butterfly - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1:05.21
14	50m Freestyle - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	27.55
14	100m Freestyle - S9	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	58.85
World Championships
3	100m Backstroke - S9	2019	London, GBR	1:02.17
3	200m Individual Medley - SM9	2019	London, GBR	2:17.68
4	4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points	2019	London, GBR	4:18.40
4	4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points	2015	Glasgow, GBR	4:19.67
6	400m Freestyle - S9	2019	London, GBR	4:23.80
6	100m Backstroke - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	1:06.28
7	100m Butterfly - S9	2019	London, GBR	1:02.09
8	100m Breaststroke - SB8	2019	London, GBR	1:16.51
12	400m Freestyle - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	4:40.52
12	200m Individual Medley - SM9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	2:28.77
14	100m Freestyle - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	1:01.02
15	100m Butterfly - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	1:06.81
16	50m Freestyle - S9	2015	Glasgow, GBR	27.92
Commonwealth Games
2	100m Backstroke - S9	2018	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	1:04.99
2	100m Breaststroke - SB8	2018	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	1:15.80
4	100m Freestyle - S9	2018	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	58.11

Tim (Facebook profile, 01 Jan 2018)

Fishing, reading, playing video games. (swimming.org.au, 15 Sep 2019; commonwealthgames.com.au, 01 Jan 2018)

Student

Electrical Engineering

English

Auburn Swim Club [Sydney, NSW, AUS]

Clinton Camilleri [club]

He has competed in Para athletics in Australia, and set a national schools record in 2013. (paralympic.org.au, 01 Jan 2017)

2015 for Australia, World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain (dailytelegraph.com.au, 08 Dec 2015)

He was introduced to swimming at age four, and began competing in 2010. (paralympic.org.au, 01 Sep 2016; dailytelegraph.com.au, 30 Aug 2016)

He began swimming as part of his rehabilitation from his amputation and to help him feel confident in his own body. "I remember saying to my mum I'll never be good at anything because I couldn't walk. I was bound to the wheelchair most of the time just recuperating from surgery. And I initially started swimming as rehabilitation. Since then I've never thought that, 'No, I can't do anything'. I've always thought that [having an impairment] is tough, but swimming is tough as well. I went from a four-and-a-half year old in a wheelchair to competing at state competitions for school at age nine. Based on that, you really can turn things around. That motivates me to put in a lot of hard work for the future." (swimming.org.au, 24 Jun 2019; paralympic.org.au, 01 Jan 2017; dailytelegraph.com.au, 30 Aug 2016)

To win a gold medal at the Paralympic Games. (paralympic.org.au, 15 Apr 2018)

Being selected to represent Australia at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. (swimming.org.au, 15 Sep 2019)

Australian Para swimmer Matthew Cowdrey. (paralympic.org.au, 01 Jan 2017)

His parents. (commonwealthgames.com.au, 01 Jan 2018)

"Don't quit. You can take breaks, you can take vacations from difficult points in your life just to kind of reset and re-evaluate, but don't necessarily quit. If you give it time, your point of view will change, so will your work ethic, and it can potentially lead to anything." (swimming.org.au, 24 Jun 2019)

In 2019 he was named Sportsperson of the Year at the Blacktown City Sports Awards Gala Dinner in New South Wales, Australia. (parra.catholic.edu.au, 19 Feb 2019)

He was named Junior Sports Star by Australian newspaper Blacktown Advocate for 2015 and 2016. (dailytelegraph.com.au, 22 Feb 2017)

He was named the 2012 Young Citizen of the Year by Blacktown Council in New South Wales, Australia. (dailytelegraph.com.au, 30 Aug 2016)