page_title: Todd Hodgetts
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Todd Hodgetts / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Australian Paralympic team member Todd Hodgetts at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London
context_page_description: Todd Hodgetts, OAM is an Australian athlete on the autism spectrum who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
context_section_description: Nicknamed "The Hulk", Hodgetts specialises in the shot put. He competes in the F20 classification.  He is coached by Gus Puopolo.  He works with a gymnastics coach to help with his balance and conditioning. He is a member of the Newstead Harriers.
  Hodgetts started competing in athletics in shot put in 1998 after his brother brought home a shot put from high school and encouraged him to try it as kind of a joke. At the 2004 Tasmanian Athletics Championships, he competed in the under-18 shot put event where he scored a state record with one of his throws.
  Hodgetts made his national team debut in 2005. In 2008, he was the Australian champion in the shot put. He competed at the 2009 Australian national athletics championships in Adelaide. In 2009, at an Athletics South flagship interclub competition, he won the shot put with a distance of 15.43 m. At the 2012 Tasmanian Track and Field Championships, he had a season's best throw of 16.04 m to win the event. At the 2012 Australian Athletics Championships, he set a world record in the shot put. At the 2012 London Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Men's Shot Put F20 event. After the Games, he underwent elbow surgery.
  
  In 2013, Hodgetts relocated to Melbourne to train under throws coach Gus Puoplo. Competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Shot Put F20. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal  in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."
  At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Hodgetts won the gold men in the Men's Shot Put F20 with a championship record of 15.83 m. After winning the gold medal, Hodgetts said: "People wrote me off after London. I had two surgeries and people were saying that I couldn’t come back, it’s amazing that I have. The faith that my coach, and Athletics Australia, and the team at the VIS had in me made me confident that I could and it’s awesome." 
  At the 2015 Australian Uni Games, he would claim Gold in the Men's Shot Put, with a throw of 15.64m, competing for Victoria University.
  On 13 February 2016 at the  Briggs Athletics Classic in Hobart, Tasmania, he threw the shot put 16.33 m to break the world record of 16.24 m for the Men's F20 that he set at the 2012 Paralympic Games.
  At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Shot Put F20 with a throw of 15.82 m.
  Hodgetts won bronze medal in the  Men's Shot Put F20 with a throw of 15.96 m at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England.
caption: Hodgetts at the 2012 London Paralympics
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