Hooker's pole dance pure gold

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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common ... 61,00.html

Hooker's pole dance pure gold

24mar06

AUSTRALIA'S Steve Hooker won gold in the pole vault at the Commonwealth Games tonight, completing a bumper night for the host nation.

Teammate Dmitri Markov won the silver medal, with England's Steven Lewis winning bronze.
Hooker sealed the competition with a clearance of 5.70 metres and went on to set a Games record with a leap of 5.80 metres.

Hooker, who holds the best height in the world this year of 5.91 metres, tried valiantly to clear 6.01 metres for his home crowd, but never got close.

Markov cleared 5.60 metres for his silver, while Lewis set 5.50 metres.

Australia's Paul Burgess, the only man over 6.00 metres in the field, had a shocker of a night, failing to register a height with three failures at his starting height of 5.60 metres.