Ted Hooper (athlete)

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Ted Hooper
Personal information
Born (1991-01-31) 31 January 1991 (age 34)
Arcadia, California, United States [1]
Education University of California, Riverside
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event Long jump

Ted Hooper (born 31 January 1991) is an American-born Taiwanese athlete specialising in the long jump. [2] He represented Chinese Taipei at the 2016 World Indoor Championships without recording a valid mark. He also won the silver medal at the 2015 Asian Championships.

His personal bests in the event are 8.08 metres outdoors (+0.1 m/s, Irvine 2015) and 7.83 metres indoors (Seattle 2016).

He was a qualifier to the 2009 CIF California State Meet, representing Arcadia High School, where he holds the school record, but had trouble making a legal jump in the qualifying round. [3]

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei
2015 Asian Championships Wuhan, China 2ndLong jump 7.80 m
Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 5thLong jump 7.83 m
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States Long jump NM

References

  1. College team bio
  2. Ted Hooper at World Athletics OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. "State Finals - 2009".