We earlier posted the Steve Hooker Pre-Berlin 2009 Interview where the Australian gold medalist discussed his thoughts on going into the World Championships. Steve ended up winning the competition by entering at a ridiculous height of 5.85m.

An interview with Steve Hooker before he won the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. In the finals, Steve Hooker came in with 2 competitors remaining in the pole vault competition and took only two jumps to win the gold. Amazing.

Steven Hooker back to the where it all started from A month after making his first Olympic team in 2004, Steve Hooker competed in the Australian club championships, doing the 200, 400, high jump and 4×100 for his club, Box Hill. He tells us what his club and first vault coach mean to him and [...]

There is an interesting discussion about this video on the Pole Vault Power Message Boards. Overall, an unique look at a weight room session of Olympic Champion Steve Hooker. Hooker is coached by Russian-turned-Aussie coach Alex Parnov, who also coached world champion Dimitri Markov, former world record-holder Emma George and Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva.

Mark Stewart convened this round table discussion on pole vault. Although all except one of the participants in this discussion is now Australian, from the background of the coaches it can be seen that as a group they have been exposed to ideas from all three of the great pole vault schools, American, Frenchand Russian. [...]