Ted Hooper (athlete)

Last updated
Ted Hooper
Personal information
Born (1991-01-31) 31 January 1991 (age 32)
Arcadia, California, United States [1]
Education University of California, Riverside
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 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

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nelson Évora</span> Portuguese triple jumper (born 1984)

Nelson ÉvoraGCIH is an Ivory Coast-born Portuguese track and field athlete of Cape Verdean descent who specializes in the triple jump.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ngonidzashe Makusha</span> Zimbabwean sprinter and athletics competitor (born 1987)

Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100 m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89 s (+1.3 m/s) and 8.40 m (0.0 m/s) respectively. Both performances achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100 m long jump double. Following the 2 gold medals victory, Makusha became one of the only four, now five, athletes to win the double at the NCAA championships. The four others are DeHart Hubbard (1925), Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis (1981), and Jarrion Lawson (2016).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steven Lewis</span> English pole vaulter

Steven ("Steve") James Lewis is an English pole vaulter. His personal best jump of 5.82 metres, set in July 2012, is the former British record for the event. Indoors his best is 5.77 m, achieved in Dessau on 2 March 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yahya Berrabah</span> Moroccan long jumper

Yahya Berrabah is a Moroccan long jumper. He is a five-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics (2003–2011) and has twice represented his country at the Olympic Games. He was the 2008 African Champion in the long jump. His personal best of 8.40 metres is the Moroccan national record.

Adam Harris is an American sprinter who represented Guyana in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2009 World Championships, 2013 World Championships and 2014 World Indoor Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janay DeLoach Soukup</span> American track and field athlete

Cynithia "Janay" DeLoach is a United States track and field athlete who won the bronze medal in the women's long jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was listed in The Coloradoan's #3 Top Sports Story of 2011 about her road to the 2012 Olympics. She is currently signed to Nike and trains in Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dong Bin</span> Chinese triple jumper

Dong Bin is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is a two-time gold medallist at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and has a personal best of 17.58 metres, which he set winning the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics. In 2016 he won the World Indoor Championship.

Lauren Boden is an Australian athletics competitor. Her events are the 400 metre hurdles, 400 metres and long jump. She was the youngest woman to win the 400 metres hurdle event at the Australian national championships. She has competed in the long jump event and the 400 metres hurdle event at the World University Games. She has competed at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the 400 metre hurdles event.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rheed McCracken</span> Australian Paralympic athlete

Rheed McCracken is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. He named the 2012 Junior Athlete of the Year as part of the Australian Paralympian of the Year Awards. He represented Australia at the 2012 London Paralympics, 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won three silver and two bronze medals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlee Beattie</span> Australian Paralympic athlete

Carlee Beattie is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. A congenital arm amputee, she won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in the Women's Long Jump. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kai Kazmirek</span> German decathlete

Kai Kazmirek is a German track and field athlete who competes in the decathlon. He holds a personal best of 8580 points for the event achieved in Rio 2016, as well as an indoor heptathlon best of 6173 points. He is a member of LG Rhein-Wied athletics club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lorraine Ugen</span> English long jumper and sprinter

Lorraine Ugen is an English long jumper and occasional 100 m sprinter with respective personal bests of 7.05 m and 11.32 s. Ugen competed for Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the long jump, finishing in eleventh place.

Javier Arturo Mc Farlane Olazábal is a Peruvian track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 110 metres hurdles and long jump. He holds the Peruvian National Record for 110 metres hurdles with 13.52 seconds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Armand Duplantis</span> Swedish-American pole vaulter (born 1999)

Armand Gustav "Mondo" Duplantis is a Swedish-American pole vaulter, the current world outdoor and indoor record holder, the current Olympic and two time World outdoor and one-time indoor champion, the current European champion, and the current Diamond League champion. He won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. Duplantis is a two-time European champion from 2018, when he set current world under-20 record, and from 2022. Indoors, he is 2022 World Indoor Championship and 2021 European Indoor Championship gold medallist.

Christina Epps is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the triple jump. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. Her personal bests in the event are 14.09 metres outdoors and 13.16 metres indoors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fabian Florant</span> Dominican born Dutch triple jumper

Fabian Florant is a Dominican born Dutch triple jumper. Florant qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the men's triple jump.

Michał Derus is a Polish track and field athlete, competing in the T47 disability classification for athletes with an impairment to a lower arm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Benard</span> American track and field athlete

Chris Benard is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. He holds a personal record of 17.48 m, set in 2016. Bernard represented Team USA 9-times at 2 Summer Olympics, 4 World Athletics Championships, & 3 NACAC Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erin Cleaver</span> Australian Paralympic athlete

Erin Cleaver is an Australian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stefan Brits</span> South African track and field athlete

Stefan Brits is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. Brits represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He holds a personal best of 8.22 m, set in 2016.

References

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