Yelena Isinbayeva

Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulter. Yelena Isinbayeva holds the world record for female pole vault.

Jelena Isinbayeva is pushing the world record higher nearly every time she participates in an athletics meeting. There has never been an female pole vaulter with more records than she.

Yelena Isinbayeva Biography

Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva (; born ) is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2004 and 2008), was elected Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF twice (2004 and 2005), and Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus. On July 22, 2005, she became the first female pole vaulter to clear 5.00 metres.

At the age of 26 Isinbayeva is seen as the best female pole vaulter in history. She has already been a 9-time major champion (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion).

Isinbayeva's current world records are 5.05 m outdoors, a record Isinbayeva set at the Summer Olympics Games in Beijing on August 18, 2008, and 4.95 m indoors, a record set at the Donetsk indoor meeting on February 16, 2008. The former was Isinbayeva's twenty-fourth world record.

Isinbayeva's mother is of Russian ethnicity, while her father is of Tabasaran ethnicity. She was born in Volgograd.

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Yelena Isinbayeva Pole Vault

Elena Isinbayeva - Female Pole Vaulter

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Pole Vault Records by Yelena Isinbayeva

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Official Pole Vault Worldrecords by Yelena Isinbayeva

World (O) 4.82 m Gateshead, England 2003 July 14
World (O) 4.87 m Gateshead, England 2004 June 27
World (O) 4.89 m Birmingham, England 2004 July 25
World (O) 4.90 m London, England 2004 July 30
World (O) 4.91 m Athens, Greece 2004 August 24
World (O) 4.92 m Brussels, Belgium 2004 September 3
World (O) 4.93 m Lausanne, Switzerland 2005 July 5
World (O) 4.95 m Madrid, Spain 2005 July 16
World (O) 4.96 m London, England 2005 July 22
World (O) 5.00 m London, England 2005 July 22
World (O) 5.01 m Helsinki, Finland 2005 August 12
World (O) 5.03 m Rome, Italy 2008 July 11
World (O) 5.04 m Monaco 2008 July 29
World (O) 5.05 m Beijing, China 2008 August 18

Inofficial Pole Vault World Records by Yelena Isinbayeva

World (I) 4.83 m Donetsk, Ukraine 2004 February 15
World (I) 4.85 m Athens, Greece 2004 February 20
World (I) 4.86 m Budapest, Hungary 2004 March 6
World (I) 4.87 m Donetsk, Ukraine 2005 February 12
World (I) 4.88 m Birmingham, England 2005 February 18
World (I) 4.89 m Lievin, France 2005 February 26
World (I) 4.90 m Madrid, Spain 2005 March 6
World (I) 4.91 m Donetsk, Ukraine 2006 February 12
World (I) 4.93 m Donetsk, Ukraine 2007 February 10
World (I) 4.95 m Donetsk, Ukraine 2008 February 16