The IAAF considered all three records to be over-all (outdoor) records, hence the indoor and outdoor records now stood at 4.86 mĢ7 June saw Isinbayeva return to Gateshead and improved the world record to 4.87 m. The following month at the World’s Indoor in March Isinbayeva broke Feofanova’s record with a gold medal winning jump of 4.86 m beating reigning indoor & outdoor champion Feofanova into bronze with reigning Olympic champion Dragila taking silver. Īt a meeting at Donetsk, Ukraine, Isinbayeva set a new indoor world record, with a height of 4.83 m only to see Feofanova increase this by two centimetres the following week. In Isinbayeva’s case, her L-Phase is exemplary. Common mistakes are getting rebounded away in an angle (rather than vertically up) or inability to keep the limbs stiff, both resulting in loss of vertical speed and therefore less height. These statements are confirmed by close observation of her jumps in detail, Isinbayeva’s high level of body control (courtesy of her gymnastics background) especially pays off in the so-called “L-Phase”, where it is vital to use the pole’s rebound to convert horizontal speed into height. She has a fantastic technique, she’s quite tall (almost 5ft 9in) and she runs extremely well.” In fact, the second part of her jump is probably better than any male pole vaulter currently competing. In August 2005, top UK pole vault coach Steve Rippon said to the BBC that “she is one of the few female pole vaulters I look at and think her technique is as good as the men’s. Setting 27 world records (15 outdoor and 12 indoor), staying virtually unbeaten between 20 (winning nine straight gold medals in indoor and outdoor championships) and being elected IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2004, 20, The former was Isinbayeva’s twenty-seventh world record. Isinbayeva’s current world records are 5.06 m outdoors, a record Isinbayeva set in Zurich on August 28, 2009, and 5.00 m indoors, a record set at the Donetsk indoor meeting on 15 February 2009. On 22 July 2005 she became the first woman to clear the historic 5.00 metre barrier in the pole vault.Īt the age of 27 Isinbayeva has been a nine-time major champion (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). As a result of her accomplishments, many consider her to be the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2009. She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (20), was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 20, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 20. Yelena Isinbayeva (born 3 June 1982) is a Russian pole vaulter.

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