Steve Hooker

Steve Hooker
Steve Hooker (2008)
Full name	Steven Leslie Hooker
nation	Australia
birthday	July 16, 1982
place of birth	Melbourne , Australia
size	187 cm
Weight	82 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2008 Beijing 5.96 m  World championships gold 2009 Berlin 5.90 m  Indoor world championships gold 2010 Doha 6.01 m bronze 2008 Valencia 5.80 m  World Cup / Continental Cup gold 2010 split 5.95 m gold 2006 Athens 5.80 m  Commonwealth Games gold 2010 New Delhi 5.60 m gold 2006 Melbourne 5.80 m
last change: August 14, 2018

Steve Hooker , actually Steven Leslie Hooker; (Born July 16, 1982 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian pole vaulter .

Steve Hooker had his first major international success at the Junior World Championships in 2000, where he finished fourth in the pole vault. At the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2005 World Championships, he did not get beyond qualifying both times.

He won his first title at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a skipped 5.80 m. At the 2007 World Championships , Hooker finished ninth with 5.76 m. In 2008, Hooker competed in indoor competitions in Europe during the Australian outdoor season. At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008 , he won the bronze medal with 5.80 m. His greatest achievement was winning the Olympic Games in the same year with 5.96 m, which meant an Olympic record up to the Games in London in 2012 , in which Renaud Lavillenie crossed 5.97 m . He himself got nothing in London. In the final, Hooker jumped no valid attempt.

The Australian proved his position as the world's best pole vaulter in his heyday at the 2009 World Championships when he secured the world title with a jump of 5.90 m. He only jumped twice in the final because of an adductor injury.

Steve Hooker achieved his personal best at an athletics meeting in Boston with 6.06 m in February 2009. At that time he was second in the all-time world best list behind Serhij Bubka .

Hooker's best 100 meters is 10.82 s, he ran it in Perth 2010.

Steve Hooker is 1.88 m tall and had a competition weight of 85 kg. His father Bill Hooker was successful as a middle-distance runner, his mother Erica Hooker as a long jumper.

Web links

Commons : Steve Hooker  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Steve Hooker in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Steve Hooker in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Steve Hooker in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lavillenie stayed cool. In: HDsports.at. August 10, 2012, accessed February 6, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Jim Finkle: Hooker clears 6.06m, aims to eclipse Bubka. February 8, 2009, accessed February 6, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Steve Hooker to run in Stawell Gift. March 16, 2010, accessed February 6, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Personal website ( memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)