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| Full name | Steven Leslie Hooker |
| Nickname(s) | Hooksy |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 16 July 1982 Melbourne |
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| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb)[1] |
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Pole vault |
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| Olympic finals | 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics |
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Steven "Steve" Leslie Hooker OAM (born 16 July 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist. His personal best, achieved in 2008, is 6.06 m (19 ft 101⁄2 in) making him the third highest pole vaulter in history,[2] behind Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie.
Hooker also has a personal best of 10.82 s in 100 m as an amateur sprinter.[3] He ran in the 2010 Stawell Gift.
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Career
Hooker won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a vault of 5.96 metres, setting a new Olympic record, and making him the first Australian male track and field gold medallist in 40 years since Ralph Doubell won the 800 metres in Mexico City in 1968.[4][5][6]
At the 2009 World Athletics Championships, in Berlin, Hooker won the gold medal despite a hamstring injury. On only his second jump, Hooker cleared 5.90 metres, to win the gold medal after missing 5.85 metres on his first attempt.[7][8]
At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Hooker won the gold medal in the pole vault with a vault of 6.01 metres, a championship record.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Hooker won the gold medal in the pole vault.
He retired from athletics in April 2014, choosing to focus on his family, his wife Yekaterina Kostetskaya having given birth to their first son, Maxim, in 2013.[9]
Honours
In the January 2009 New Years Honours List, Steve Hooker was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) "For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games".[10]
Personal life
Hooker attended Greythorn Primary School and Balwyn High School in Balwyn North, Victoria.
His mother Erica Hooker was a 1972 Olympian and a 1978 Commonwealth Games long jump silver medalist. She also won nine national titles. His father Bill represented Australia in the 800 m and 4 x 400 m at the 1974 Commonwealth Games and won four national crowns.
He began his career with the Box Hill Athletic Club. His career started slowly, and he only went professional in 2006. He relocated to Perth, living on a very modest Australian Sports Commission allowance.
Summary of athletic achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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| 2000 | World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile | 4th | 5.20 m | |
| 2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 1st | 5.80 m | |
| World Athletics Final | Stuttgart, Germany | 5th | 5.75 m | ||
| World Cup | Athens, Greece | 1st | 5.80 m | ||
| 2007 | World Athletics Final | Stuttgart, Germany | 3rd | 5.81 m | |
| 2008 | World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain | 3rd | 5.80 m | |
| Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 1st | 5.96 m OR | ||
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 1st | 5.90 m | |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st | 6.01 m CR | |
| Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 1st | 5.95 m CR | ||
| Commonwealth Games | New Delhi, India | 1st | 5.60 m | ||
See also
References
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- Steve Hooker profile at IAAF
- Steve Hooker personal website
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Steve Hooker's profile at the IAAF site
- ↑ Hooker’s rise continues - 6.06m in Boston
- ↑ Steve Hooker to run in Stawell Gift
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- ↑ Hooked on Success. Inside Athletics (September 2009 edition). [1]. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
- ↑ Australian pole vault star Steve Hooker retires. IAAF (2014-04-12). Retrieved on 2014-04-13.
- ↑ "For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games", It's an Honour, 26 January 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
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- Living people
- 1982 births
- Australian pole vaulters
- Male pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Sportspeople from Melbourne
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Track and field athletes from Western Australia
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series) participants
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Australia
