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 fourth-highest pole vaulter in history,[2] behind Sergey Bubka, Renaud Lavillenie and Armand Duplantis.

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.

[4][5][6] At the 2009 World Athletics Championships, in Berlin, Hooker won the gold medal despite a hamstring injury.

[9] Hooker joined six-metre club for the first time on 27 January 2008 at an outdoor competition in Perth, Western Australia with a vault of 6.0m.