Madeleine Hogan

Madeleine Hogan

2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Hogan
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Maddy
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1988-12-08) 8 December 1988 (age 28) Ferntree Gully, Victoria
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Javelin
Club	Knox Athletics Club
Medal record Track and field (athletics) Representing  Australia Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing Women's Javelin Throw - F42-46 2012 London Women's Javelin Throw - F46 IPC Athletics World Championships 2011 Christchurch Women's Javelin Throw - F46

Madeleine Hogan (born 8 December 1988) is a Paralympic athlete from Australia competing mainly in category F42/F46 javelin throw events. She has won bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics.

Madeleine was born in the Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully, situated in the Dandenong Ranges, on 8 December 1988, without the lower half of her left arm. She has two younger siblings, Brock and Courtney. As a teenager between 2001 and 6, Madeleine completed years 7 through 12 at Brentwood Secondary College in Glen Waverley. After graduation, she went on to study Exercise and Sport Science at Deakin University.

Hogan was highly involved in sport whilst in school and her ability identified in an athletics talent search day in 2005. She took up athletics seriously in 2006. She is a member of the Knox Athletics Club in Melbourne.

At the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Javelin F46. Prior to the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, she tore a tendon in her right throwing arm but overcame the injury to win the gold medal in the Women's Javelin F46 with a distance of 37.79 m. Hogan’s winning throw was four metres better than her nearest rivals Natalia Gudkova (33.65m) of Russia, in silver position, and Hollie Beth Arnold (32.45m) of Great Britain, in bronze. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, Hogan won a bronze medal in the Women's Javelin F46.