Steinar Hoen (born 8 February 1971) is a retired
Norwegian
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high jump
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er. He represented
IK Tjalve
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during his senior career. He has been the meeting director for the
Bislett Games
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History
The first international athletics meeting at Bislet ...
since 2007. His indoor and outdoor bests are both 2.36 m – these are also the
Norwegian records for the event.
Career
In his early career he finished eleventh at the
1990 World Junior Championships, fourteenth at the
1991 World Championships, ninth at the
1992 European Indoor Championships and ninth at the
1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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. He competed at the
1992 Summer Olympics
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together with
Håkon Särnblom without reaching the finals.
In 1994 he finished fourth at the
European Indoor Championships before winning the
European Championships
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in August with a jump of 2.35 metres. This result was a
competition record for exactly twelve years, until
Andrey Silnov
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surpassed it by 2.36 m.
Hoen came close to medals in 1995, with fourth places from both the
World Indoor Championships and
World Championships
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, before he won another European medal with a bronze medal at the
1996 European Indoor Championships. He then finished fifth at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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, eighth at the
1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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, fourth at the
1997 World Championships and sixth at the
1998 European Championships. He became Norwegian champion in the years 1991 and 1993-1998.
His personal best jump was 2.36 metres, achieved in July 1997 in
Oslo
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. This is the current Norwegian record. He cleared 2.30 metres or more 32 times, whereas Särnblom only cleared this height or more twice. Hoen already had a personal indoor best of 2.36 m, from February 1994 in
Balingen
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.
Hoen intended to make a brief comeback at the 2006 Norwegian championships, but failed to show up at the competition.
Results - 2006 Norwegian championships, day three
He lives at Strand
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Competition record
References
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1971 births
Living people
Norwegian male high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Norway
European Athletics Championships medalists
Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games