After the Beijing Olympics, Australian Steve Hooker naturally did a bunch of press after his Olympic Gold performance. This is one of the best show appearances I have seen by a sports figure.
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.
IAAF Diaries – Steve Hooker Steve Hooker is heading to the beach twice a day. Perth’s Indian Summer is a good enough reason, but it is a perfect recovery session too. “Perth this time of year is amazing – cool, fresh mornings and it gets up to about 30 (deg. C) during the day. I [...]
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 [...]
THE great man has spoken. Sergey Bubka, the undisputed king of the pole vault, has declared that Australia’s Steve Hooker has what it takes to break the world record of 6.15m he set in his Ukraine homeland in 1993. Speaking from Donetsk, where he honed the vaulting skills that saw him rule the event from [...]
Here is some excellent coverage of the Men’s Pole Vault at the Reebok Indoor Games ’09. As all pole vaulters know by now, Steve Hooker took some pretty good attempts at surpassing Sergei Bubka’s long standing 6.15m world record. Also competing were Derek Miles, Darren Niedermeyer, Giovanni Lannaro, Paul Burgess, Tim Mack.
Steve Hooker attempting the world record at the Millrose Games. He got pretty close on the last two; just a bit of a blow through. It’s interesting that he hasn’t been able to train because of a pole break injury a few weeks back and has not done much full run stuff since the Olympic [...]