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| show-medals = yes }} 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 making him the third highest pole vaulter in history,〔(Hooker’s rise continues - 6.06m in Boston )〕 behind Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie. Hooker also has a personal best of 10.82 s in 100 m as an amateur sprinter.〔(Steve Hooker to run in Stawell Gift )〕 He ran in the 2010 Stawell Gift. ==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. 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.〔(Hooked on Success ). ''Inside Athletics (September 2009 edition)''. (). Retrieved 7 October 2009.〕 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.〔(Australian pole vault star Steve Hooker retires ). IAAF (2014-04-12). Retrieved on 2014-04-13.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Hooker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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