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Steven Leslie Hooker is an Australian male athletics competitor and pole vaulter. Born on July 16, 1982, in Melbourne, he represented Australia in the sport of athletics. His competitive career began in 1997 and concluded in 2014. Hooker is 187 centimeters tall and weighs 75 kilograms. He attended Balwyn High School and speaks English.
Hooker participated in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2006 Commonwealth Games. His mother is Erica Hooker. He maintains an official website at stevehooker.com.au.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1917-08-22
- Active to
- 2001-06-21
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 728
- Total plays
- 2,772
Tags
Steve is best known for his stagecraft as guitarman for garage trashers The Shakers, Morrissey and Polecats mainman Boz's Bozmen, rockabilly trio Rumble and record nuggets with Feelgood and Blockhead Wilko Johnson and Demented Are Go's; Captain Drugbuster. He has shared stages with Mr Maybellene; Chuck Berry, New York Doll; Johnny Thunders, Loveless star Robert Gordon and toured relentlessly since the 70's throughout Europe and across to New York and Japan. Steve is based in Southchurch, Essex.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,169x
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,991x
- Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics
· 1995 · cited 42,191x
- WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis
· 2008 · cited 23,797x
- New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors
· 2000 · cited 13,419x
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Key facts
- Full name
- Steven Leslie Hooker
- Nickname
- Hooksy
- Nationality
- Australian
- Born
- ( 1982-07-16 ) 16 July 1982 (age 43) , Melbourne , Australia
- Height
- 187 cm (6 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 75 kg (165 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Pole vault
- Olympic finals
- 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics
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Encyclopedic overview
Steven Leslie Hooker OAM (born 16 July 1982) is an Australian former pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist. His personal best, achieved in 2008, is 6.06 m (19 ft 10+1⁄2 in) making him the sixth-highest pole vaulter in history.
Hooker was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and has a personal best of 10.79 s in 100 m as an amateur sprinter. He ran in the 2010 Stawell Gift.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steve Hooker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.