Hooker Joins Exclusive 6.00M Vault Club

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“The conditions were perfect and my first attempt was good, but I needed to go up to a bigger pole, on my second I bailed and got it on the third.”

After mistakenly believing he had cleared 6.00m when setting his personal best of 5.96m in Berlin in 2006, Hooker said he had already achieved the feat “mentally”.

“My weakness the past few years has been converting my form on the runway in training to competitions. I have been inconsistent when I get to competitions and it looks like it is getting better – at least today anyway,” confirmed Hooker.

He will jump again in Perth next weekend, before heading to Melbourne for the World Athletics Tour meeting on Thursday 21 February and the Australian titles and Olympic selection trials in Brisbane (28 Feb – 1 Mar).

The 25-year-old is also targetting the 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain (7-9 March).

David Culbert (Athletics Australia Media) for the IAAF

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