Brian Hooper
British pole vaulter
Brian Roger Leslie Hooper (born 18 May 1953) is a British former pole vaulter, who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was the winner of the 1982 World Superstars Championship.
Biography
In the 1970s Hooper was an athletics coach at George Abbot School. Hooper was the United Kingdom's leading pole vaulter from 1974 to 1980, competing in two Olympic Games, two European Athletics Championships and winning the bronze medal at both the 1974 for the England team in Christchurch, New Zealand and the 1978 Commonwealth Games, representing England in Edmonton, Canada. In 1986 he represented England for the third time at a Commonwealth Games, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Hooper became the British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1973 AAA Championships. and although he only won the AAA title outright twice more in 1980 and 1986, he was considered the British champion by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete in 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1978. During the 1980 AAAs he set his personal best height of 5.59m, which was then the United Kingdom pole vault record. Additionally he also won the 1979 UK Athletics Championships title.
Hooper also held the United Kingdom masters (veterans) pole vault best performance record, with a leap of 5.01 metres in 1994 and set the over-40s age group pole vault record.
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