Hector "Hec" Denis Hogan (15 July 1931,

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2 September 1960,

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) was an Australian

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who competed mainly in the 100 yards and

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sprint, where he was seven-times Australian 100 yards champion. He also competed in the 220 yards/

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, which he won twice in the Australian Championships, and the

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which he won in 1954. He also competed in the

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. In March 1954, he equalled the world record for the 100 yards (9.3 seconds) and 100 metres (10.2 seconds) on a grass track in Sydney. He won

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s in the 100 yards and 4 × 100 yards relay at the

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in Vancouver. His time for the 100 yards was 9.7 seconds. In the 1958 Commonwealth Games at Cardiff he won a bronze for the 4 × 100 yards relay. He competed for Australia in the

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held in

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, where he won the bronze medal in the 100 metres. Hogan died on 2 September 1960 of

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, leaving his wife, Maureen, and a son. He was buried in

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.Hogan, Hector Denis (1931–1960)
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. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

References

External links

Official Commonwealth Games site
1931 births 1960 deaths Australian male long jumpers Australian male sprinters Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Deaths from leukemia Deaths from cancer in Queensland Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Burials at Nudgee Cemetery Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees {{Australia-Olympic-medalist-stub