Stockholm - Hooker 5.86, Gerasimov, Jeng 5.81
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:38 pm
http://www.iaaf.org/WIM09/news/newsid=49350.html
Another full house in Stockholm expects Hooker to fly high - PREVIEW
Steve Hooker at the pre-meeting press conference in Stockholm (Lennart Julin)
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Stockholm, Sweden - The "GE Galan" in the Globe Arena in Stockholm celebrates it 20th edition on Wednesday. At the premier on 24 February 1990 the arena was sold out (10,000+ spectators) and the meet has drawn a full house almost every year since then. Looking at the line-up for Wednesday’s (18) upcoming edition the likeliness of any empty seats is very low also this year.
The GE Galan is an IAAF Indoor permit meeting.
The main international attraction is Australian Pole Vaulter Steve Hooker who unquestionably has been "The man of the season" so far: Coming into Stockholm he has had four competitions, won all of them and attempted the World record height of 6.16 in all of them!
But Hooker himself didn't admit to being on any serious record chase:
"My attitude is the same as it has been before: To go out there and have fun without any specific expectations. I don't think I have been that close in any of the record attempts. But it has just been nice to feel what it is like to jump at a bar like that!"
Although Hooker has been on fire this winter the men's Pole Vault is certainly not the only – or even the strongest – World record possibility on Wednesday night.
Another full house in Stockholm expects Hooker to fly high - PREVIEW
Steve Hooker at the pre-meeting press conference in Stockholm (Lennart Julin)
relnews
Stockholm, Sweden - The "GE Galan" in the Globe Arena in Stockholm celebrates it 20th edition on Wednesday. At the premier on 24 February 1990 the arena was sold out (10,000+ spectators) and the meet has drawn a full house almost every year since then. Looking at the line-up for Wednesday’s (18) upcoming edition the likeliness of any empty seats is very low also this year.
The GE Galan is an IAAF Indoor permit meeting.
The main international attraction is Australian Pole Vaulter Steve Hooker who unquestionably has been "The man of the season" so far: Coming into Stockholm he has had four competitions, won all of them and attempted the World record height of 6.16 in all of them!
But Hooker himself didn't admit to being on any serious record chase:
"My attitude is the same as it has been before: To go out there and have fun without any specific expectations. I don't think I have been that close in any of the record attempts. But it has just been nice to feel what it is like to jump at a bar like that!"
Although Hooker has been on fire this winter the men's Pole Vault is certainly not the only – or even the strongest – World record possibility on Wednesday night.
