Steve Hooker

Hooker on world athlete award shortlist

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

World and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker has been shortlisted for the male world track and field athlete of the year award.

Hooker on world athlete award shortlist

The Age (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

World and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker has been shortlisted for the male world track and field athlete of the year award.

Hooker a chance for world athletics gong

ABC (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

World and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker has joined some exclusive company in being shortlisted for the male world track and field athlete of the year award.

• Hooker on world athlete award shortlist - The Age
• Hooker on world athlete award shortlist - Sydney Morning Herald
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Hooker vows to better Bubka this summer

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

OLYMPIC and world championship pole vault gold medallist Steve Hooker says claiming a world record is his greatest ambition - and he reckons he is ripe to do it in Australia this summer. Speaking at the announcement yesterday of nominations for The Sydney Morning Herald Sports Performer of the Year awards, presented by Colonial First State, Hooker said he felt he was ''close''...

Sports performer of the year announced

The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... the most support from a field that included Cadel Evans, Stephanie Gilmore, Jarryd Hayne, Steve Hooker, Mark Webber and Gary Ablett jnr among others.''This is an amazing achievement and I want to thank The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Colonial First State for hosting this event,'' Alexander said. ''I think it's great that our sports performers are recognised in this manner and...

A winner to stand out from the best

The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

... the dignity with which he weathered the attention that helped him stand out.Story is important. Steve Hooker is the best pole vaulter in the world because he won nine-straight meets, because he has become the most dominant in his event since the great Sergey Bubka - and Bubka was the greatest ever. But it is the way he won that makes his story compelling.Ablett can be judged the greatest...

Bolt & Gay Set For 3 Diamond League Matchups In 2010

Cool Running: Top News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

... League appearances are distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva and Steve Hooker, 400 runner Sanya Richards, high jumper Blanka Vlasic and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The Diamond League offers $6.63 million in total prize money across 32 track and field disciplines, each staged seven times over the series. A four-carat diamond will be presented to the...

Crawford hits back in sports funding row

The Age (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Crawford rejected claims from Coates that his report was "disrespectful" to Australia's Olympic achievements and "insulting" to gold medal heroes in lower-profile sports such as diver Matthew Mitcham, kayaker Ken Wallace and pole vaulter Steve Hooker.

Crawford hits back in sports funding row

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Crawford rejected claims from Coates that his report was "disrespectful" to Australia's Olympic achievements and "insulting" to gold medal heroes in lower-profile sports such as diver Matthew Mitcham, kayaker Ken Wallace and pole vaulter Steve Hooker.

Bolt headlines athletes lined up for Diamond League

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Distance runner Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and Australian Steve Hooker, women's 400 metres sprinter Sanya Richards of the United States, high jumper Blanka Vlasic of Croatia and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway are the other contracted athletes.

Bolt, Gay to lock horns in Diamond League

Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

... League appearances are distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva and Steve Hooker, 400 runner Sanya Richards, high jumper Blanka Vlasic and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The Diamond League offers $6.63 million in total prize money across 32 track and field disciplines, each staged seven times over the series. A four-carat diamond will be presented to the...

Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay set for 3 showdowns in Diamond League

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

... League appearances are distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva and Steve Hooker, 400 runner Sanya Richards, high jumper Blanka Vlasic and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The Diamond League offers $6.63 million in total prize money across 32 track and field disciplines, each staged seven times over the series. A four-carat diamond will be presented to the...

• Bolt, Gay to lock horns in Diamond League - Japan Times

Don't deny usthe chance tobe world-beaters

The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

... suit, surged to victory in Sydney in 2000, we all breathed a sigh of relief and delight. And when Steve Hooker flew to triumph in the pole vault in Beijing, claiming our first male track and field gold medal since 1968, Australians everywhere punched the air.

Olympic sports face funding cuts

The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

... Mr Coates said."Is Mr Crawford suggesting the gold medals won in Beijing by Matthew Mitcham, Steve Hooker and Ken Wallace meant nothing to the Australian people?"Archery Australia chief executive Jim Larven said his sport had 6000 registered archers and 100,000 more who took part on a casual basis. "So we currently get more Government funding than cricket. So what? Cricket is a professional...

Usain Bolt, Kenenisa Bekele Vie For Top Male Athlete Award

Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

... 5,000 and 10,000m.Also on the shortlist are American sprinter Tyson Gay, Australian pole vaulter Steve Hooker and Norway's javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The women's shortlist will be released on Tuesday with both winners being announced during the World Athletics Gala in Monaco on November 22.(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Justin Palmer)