No Jeff he gets a little higher than a footballer but not too much higher

You've got him Sheba over to you.

Steve Hooker

Steve Hooker in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Steven Leslie Hooker
Nickname(s)	Hooksy
Nationality	Australian
Born	16 July 1982 (age 36) Melbourne
Height	187 cm (6 ft 1 12 in)[1]
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics
Medal record[hide]   Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Pole vault World Championships 2009 Berlin Pole vault World Indoor Championships 2010 Doha Pole vault 2008 Valencia Pole vault Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne Pole vault 2010 Delhi Pole vault World Cup 2006 Athens Pole vault Continental Cup 2010 Split Pole vault World Athletics Final 2007 Stuttgart Pole vault

Steven "Steve" Leslie Hooker OAM (born 16 July 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist. His personal best, achieved in 2008, is 6.06 m (19 ft 10¹₂ in) making him the third-highest pole vaulter in history,^[2] behind Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie.

Hooker also has a personal best of 10.82 s in 100 m as an amateur sprinter.^[3] He ran in the 2010 Stawell Gift.

Career[edit]

Hooker won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a vault of 5.96 metres, setting a new Olympic record, and making him the first Australian male track and field gold medallist in 40 years since Ralph Doubell won the 800 metres in Mexico City in 1968.^[4][5][6]

At the 2009 World Athletics Championships, in Berlin, Hooker won the gold medal despite a hamstring injury. On only his second jump, Hooker cleared 5.90 metres, to win the gold medal after missing 5.85 metres on his first attempt.^[7][8]

At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Hooker won the gold medal in the pole vault with a vault of 6.01 metres, a championship record.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Hooker won the gold medal in the pole vault.

Hooker competed at the 2012 London Olympics and finished 14th after failing to vault a height in the final.^[9]

Hooker joined six-metre club for the first time on 27 January 2008 at an outdoor competition in Perth, Western Australia with a vault of 6.0m.^[10] On 7 February 2009, at the Boston Indoor Games he set an Australian indoor record with a vault of 6.06m. Both heights were the Australian record at the time of his retirement.^[11]

During his career he was coached by Mark Stewart and Alex Parnov.^[10]

He retired from athletics in April 2014, choosing to focus on his family, his wife Yekaterina Kostetskaya having given birth to their first son, Maxim, in 2013.

Honours[edit]

In the January 2009 New Years Honours List, Steve Hooker was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) "For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games".^[13] In October 2017, Hooker was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame as an athlete member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hooker

Think I should have picked an easier one. 

His surname is the same as a Cigarette Brand.

Sheba wrote:

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He played the Captain of the USS Reliant.

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 That shines a different light on things. I was looking for a religious leader. Is it Benjamin Sisko?

Anyhow have a Winfield there was also a Phil Morris who acted in Star Trek but the guy you want is Paul Winfield all through I have been looking for a Morris. A tricky one

You got him Sandy.  Who's next ? 

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939^[1] March 7, 2004) was an American television, film and stage actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film Sounder, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1978 television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Winfield was also known for his roles in The Terminator, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He received five Emmy nominations overall, winning for his 1994 guest role in Picket Fences.

Thanks Sheba and thanks Jack now who is this guy.

Ok sorry I'm late back with the clue it's been a bit hectic here. Here is our man with his offsider see if that helps

You've got him BG over to you.

I cant find a Wiki on him but Kris Kirby was a ventriloquist from early Australian TV with his Dummy he called themselves Chris and Terry (note the different spelling) When I searched for him I see that he is not with us anymore I see he passed away on 31st of March, 2016 aged 74.

Is it Van the Man....just haven't seen him with hair that long (or whats left of it)??

A long-haired Jimmy Barns ?

More like Rock Slingers Sandy !!!

No Sheba, not Jimmy, although a close facial likeness..

Time for a clue BG