Steven Hooker
Steve Hooker in 2008
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Steven Leslie Hooker |
| Nickname(s) | Hooksy |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born |
16 July 1982 Melbourne |
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Pole vault |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals | 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics |
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Medal record
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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 10 1⁄2 in) making him the third-highest pole vaulter in history, behind Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie.
Hooker also has a personal best of 10.82 s in 100 m as an amateur sprinter. He ran in the 2010 Stawell Gift.
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.
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.
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.
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