Hooker ready to beat Bubka with heavy pole
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Syndey Morning Herald
Jessica Halloran
February 7, 2009
STEVE HOOKER will use a heavier pole in an effort to break Sergey Bubka’s world record vault in Boston this weekend.
While a lighter pole gave him Olympic gold and helped him set a new personal best last weekend in New York, Hooker has made the switch for the Boston Indoor Games.
The Australian missed breaking Bubka’s mark of 6.14 metres by what onlookers say was the length of a leg hair at Madison Square Gardens last week. Hooker had three attempts at 6.16m in New York in his first competition since Beijing.
His coach, Alex Parnov, said he expects his charge to again go close to the world record and that the heavier pole could be the key to conquering the “big goal”.
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