Steve Hooker has won Australia's 12th gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, leaping to victory in the men's pole vault at the Bird's Nest. Hooker cleared 5.80 and 5.85 metres on his third attempts to secure himself a medal before vaulting into the history books by clearing 5.90m, becoming Australia's first male gold medallist in the field for 60 years.
John Winter won a gold medal for Australia in the men's high jump at the London 1948 Games.
Hooker then added the icing to his gold, breaking the Olympic record with a third attempt at 5.96m, one centimetre higher than American Tim Mack's record from Athens.
The world record is 6.14m, held by Ukrainian Sergey Bubka.
Russian Evgeniy Lukyanenko took the silver and Ukranian Denys Yurchenko finished with the bronze.
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