Victor Hogan

Victor Hogan (born 25 July 1989) is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He has a personal best of 67.62m thrown in Stellenbosch at the South African championships making him 10 time South African Champion, and 3 time African Champion.

Victor Hogan
Personal information
Born25 July 1989 (1989-07-25) (age 31)
Vredenburg, South Africa
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  South Africa
All-Africa Games
2011 MaputoDiscus throw
African Championships
2010 NairobiDiscus throw
2012 Porto NovoDiscus throw
2014 MarrakechDiscus throw
2016 DurbanDiscus throw

Born in Vredenburg,[1] he took part in discus competitions from a young age: he participated at the 2006 Gymnasiade, won at the 2007 African Junior Athletics Championships, and came fourth at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics.[2][3] His best throw of 65.52 m with the lighter junior discus in 2008 ranked him as the fifth best junior ever at the time.[4]

Hogan established himself on the national senior circuit in 2010 with three wins on the Yellow Pages Series and his first national title. He claimed his first major medal at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics soon after, taking the bronze medal.[5] He represented Africa at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup, coming eighth.[6] He won a second South African title in 2011, but this was marred by an incident where an official was struck by Hogan's discus on the field.[7]

Hogan cleared sixty metres with the discus for the first time in 2011 and was the runner-up at the 2011 All-Africa Games with a throw of 62.60 metres.[8] He threw a best of 62.76 m in Bilbao in June 2012 and went on to take the gold medal at the 2012 African Championships the following month.[9] However, he did not make the South African Olympic squad because he had not achieved the qualifying standard of 63 metres.[10]

In 2016, Hogan threw a new personal best of 67.62m, the furthest distance ever thrown at a South African Championship, qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Hogan retrieved a bronze medal at the Doha Diamond Leuague in Qatar with a distance of 65.59m, and a silver medal at the Rome Diamond league with a distance of 64.04m. Hogan also won the 20th African Senior Championships with a distance of 61.68m, making him 3 time African Champion.

Competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  South Africa
2007 African Junior Championships Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 1st Discus throw (1.75 kg) 56.35 m
2008 World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 4th Discus throw (1.75 kg) 60.64 m
2010 African Championships Nairobi, Kenya 3rd Discus throw 58.11 m
2011 All-Africa Games Maputo, Mozambique 2nd Discus throw 62.60 m
2012 African Championships Porto Novo, Benin 1st Discus throw 61.80 m
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 5th Discus throw 64.35 m
2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, United Kingdom 10th Discus throw 56.42 m
African Championships Marrakech, Morocco 1st Discus throw 62.87 m
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 13th (q) Discus throw 62.41 m
2016 African Championships Durban, South Africa 1st Discus throw 61.68 m
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 18th (q) Discus throw 62.26 m
2018 African Championships Asaba, Nigeria 1st Discus throw 60.06 m

References
  1. Victor Hogan. Glasgow 2014. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  2. 2007 African Junior Championships Archived April 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
  3. 2008 World Junior Championships. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2012-07-03.
  4. Discus Throw (1.750kg) junior All Time. IAAF (2012-06-29). Retrieved 2012-07-03.
  5. Negash, Elshadai (2010-07-29). Meite, Okagbare take 100m titles, Cheruiyot over Defar again in the 5000m - African champs Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  6. Hogan Victor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-03.
  7. Official hit by discus is recovering. Sowetan Live (2011-06-29). Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  8. All Africa Games Highlights. Athletics SA (2011-09-15). Retrieved on 2012-07-03.
  9. Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-30). Montsho and Makwala take 400m titles in Porto-Novo – African champs, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  10. Isaacson, David (2012-07-03). Blow to SA medal hopes. Sowetan Live. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
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