Ileana Hocking

{{short description|Puerto Rican sprinter}}

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| nationality = Puerto Rican

| sport = Sprinting
Middle distance running

| event = 400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|3|15|df=yes}}

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| height = 1.58 m

| weight = 54 kg

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Leana Hocking (born 15 March 1959) is a Puerto Rican sprinter and middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Hocking finished seventh in the 1500 metres at the 1975 Pan American Games and sixth in the 1500 metres at the 1979 Pan American Games.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/ileana-hocking-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123338/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/ileana-hocking-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Ileana Hocking Olympic Results |access-date=3 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://meangreensports.com/honors/north-texas-athletics-hall-of-fame/leana-hocking/63|title=Leana Hocking|website=North Texas Mean Green}}

Hocking competed in the AIAW for the North Texas Mean Green track and field team, finishing 8th in the 1500 m at the 1980 AIAW Outdoor Track and Field Championships.{{Olympedia}}{{cite web |title=AIAW CHAMPIONSHIPS |url=https://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/CTRN/wt+fw_july80.pdf |publisher=Women's Track & Field World |access-date=12 February 2025 |page=8}}

International competitions

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colspan="6"|Representing {{flag|Puerto Rico|1952}}
rowspan=2|1974

|rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships
(U-20)

|rowspan=2|Maracaibo, Venezuela

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|800 m

|2:14.04

bgcolor=gold|1st

|1500 m

|4:45.61

1975

|Pan American Games

|Mexico City, Mexico

|7th

|1500 m

|4:51.47

rowspan=7|1976

|rowspan=2|Olympic Games

|rowspan=2|Montreal, Canada

|36th (h)

|400 m

|57.85

32nd (h)

|800 m

|2:08.46

rowspan=5|Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships
(U-20)

|rowspan=5|Xalapa, Mexico

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|400 m

|57.63

bgcolor=gold|1st

|800 m

|2:13.38

bgcolor=gold|1st

|1500 m

|4:51.0

bgcolor=gold|1st

|4 × 100 m relay

|49.72

bgcolor=gold|1st

|4 × 400 m relay

|3:57.38

rowspan=3|1978

|rowspan=3|Central American and Caribbean Games

|rowspan=3|Medellín, Colombia

|5th

|800 m

|2:09.65

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|1500 m

|4:35.88

bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|4 × 400 m relay

|3:46.58

rowspan=3|1979

|rowspan=3|Pan American Games

|rowspan=3|San Juan, Puerto Rico

|12th (h)

|800 m

|2:16.8

6th

|1500 m

|4:27.3

5th

|4 × 400 m relay

|3:49.4

Personal bests

References