Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayevais a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a three-time World Champion, the current world record holder in the event, who is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time...
ProfessionPole Vaulter
Date of Birth3 June 1982
CityVolgograd, Russia
adding good high hopes mark record
After Helsinki, I was so tired. But now I feel good again. I have high hopes of adding to my world record mark as I feel as if I still have more in me.
win
I always want to win with a world record.
icing record win
The most important thing was to win tonight, world record would have been just the icing on the cake.
break broke competition enter expects extra five pressure records since time
Since I broke so many world records I have had the little extra pressure that every time I enter a competition every one expects me to break the world record. But it is not easy. Five meters is a whole different world and since Helsinki I have been very tired.
stage whole
The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.