Profile Latest Articles Latest Photos. A two-time Olympic gold medallist, five-time world champion and current world record holder - Yelena Isinbayeva is widely regarded to be the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time and is held in the same esteem as the great Sergey Bubka. Isinbayeva originally trained as a gymnast, before she was considered too tall at the age of Her physique didn't go to waste, however, as her height and strength were transferrable to the pole vault.
She took to the sport like a duck to water, winning her first major victory - at the World Youth Games - six months after picking up a pole for the first time. The women's pole-vault was accepted as an Olympic event for the first time in , although Isinbayeva didn't enjoy its inauguration as she failed to make it out of the qualifying round. It didn't take her long to return to winning ways, however, winning gold at the European Junior Championships.
After claiming her first senior championships medal, silver at the European Championships, Isinbayeva went from strength to strength. Shortly after her 21st birthday, she set her first world record, on English soil, and in she won gold at the Athens Olympics.
At the European Indoor Championships, Isinbayeva won gold with a new indoor world record, and her triumph sparked a tremendous run of form. She broke her outdoor record four times over three meetings and later became the first woman in history to clear the five-metre barrier. She walked away with another gold at the World Championships, vaulting 5.
At the Beijing Olympics, Isinbayeva defended her Olympic crown with another monumental performance, increasing the world's best mark to 5. After a great start to the season, when Isinbayeva cleared 5m for the first time indoors, her form deserted her. However, in the World Championships in Daegu she ended up again outside of the medals, taking the sixth place with 4. The Russian cleared her opening height of 4. Following another disappointment at a major championships, she decided to take time out from the sport to recuperate, saying: "A break from competing is absolutely necessary for me.
After more than eight years of very hard training and competing at the highest levels both indoors and outdoors each year I need to step back in order for my body to properly recover". She missed the opportunity to defend her title at the European Championships and she was succeeded by her compatriot Svetlana Feofanova, while Fabiana Murer went on to claim the inaugural IAAF Diamond League pole vault series.
Isinbayeva continued to train with Vitaliy Petrov during her time out, however, although did not appear in competition until the start of the indoor season. The Russian Winter meeting in February was the venue for her comeback and she demonstrated her resurgence of form with a first time clearance of 4. Isinbayeva started the season by becoming the first woman to vault over 5 metres indoors. She first raised her world indoor mark with a vault of 4.
It was the sixth consecutive year she had set an indoor world record in this meet. She received the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year in recognition of her achievements — it was also the fifth time she had been nominated for the award in as many years. At the World Championships in Berlin, Germany, Isinbayeva lost her second competition of the year after failing to achieve a successful vault. However, Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own women's pole vault world record at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting by clearing 5.
During the indoor season, Isinbayeva set her twenty-first world record, clearing 4. It was Isinbayeva's third consecutive World Indoor title. At the Summer Olympics in Beijing on 18 August, Isinbayeva needed two vaults to prolong her Olympic title reign and went on to finish the competition with 5.
Isinbayeva has been a major champion on nine occasions Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion. After poor performances at the world championships in and , she took a year-long break from the sport.
On 10 February in Donetsk, Ukraine, Isinbayeva broke the world indoor pole vault record again, by clearing 4. It was Isinbayeva's 20th world record. On 28 August Isinbayeva repeated as world champion in Osaka at the World Championships in Athletics with a 4. Her competition did no better than 4. Isinbayeva was unbeaten in the season and won 18 out of 18 competitions. At an indoor meeting on 12 February in Donetsk, Ukraine, Isinbayeva set a new indoor world record.
She cleared 4. In March she successfully defended her World Indoor title in front of a homeland crowd in Moscow, Russia. This was the only gold medal missing from her collection until that time.
In July , Isinbayeva broke the world record four times over three separate meetings. First in Lausanne, Switzerland, she added an extra centimetre to her own mark clearing 4.
It was the 14th world record of Isinbayeva's career coming just three months after she broke her own indoor mark 4. Eleven days later, in Madrid, Spain, she added an additional 2 cm to clear 4. In Crystal Palace, London on 22 July, after improving the record to 4. She then became the first woman in history to clear the once mythical five-metre barrier in pole vaulting, achieving the monumental mark with a single attempt.
After the women's pole vault final at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland was delayed due to extremely bad weather conditions, Isinbayeva once again broke her own world record, performing 5. This was already the eighteenth world record in the career of the then year-old Isinbayeva and her successful season was crowned with her second consecutive World Athlete of the Year award.
On 11 July, at her first outdoor competition of the season, Rome's Golden Gala, Isinbayeva broke her own world record, clearing 5. This was her first world record outdoors since the World Championships.
Isinbayeva stated that she had tried 5. This record came just as people began to speculate her fall from the top of pole vaulting, as American Jennifer Stuczynski cleared 4.
In , the athlete again stated that she planned to finish her sports career after the World Championships in Athletics in Moscow. This decision was dictated not only by the decline in the activity of the athlete but also by the desire to have a family and children.
Nevertheless, Isinbayeva continued fitness training and at the end of her career planned to participate at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. However, 4 years of hard training resulted in a huge disappointment. Because of the doping scandal with Russian athletes, the IOC decided to disqualify from Olympic Games not only the athletes who ruined their reputation but the entire Russian national team.
The sportswoman was persistently preparing for the Olympics in Rio, which could be the logical conclusion of Isinbayeva's professional career.
Until the very last moment, Yelena, who was not involved in the doping scandal, challenged the IOC's unfair decision and filed suits. Yelena Isinbayeva is a very open-minded and friendly woman, but she prefers not to show her private life.
I really love you, " for the first time speaking about her personal life. Artem is not a famous sportsman, as many journalists previously assumed. He is a DJ. Isinbayeva and Artem met in during her training in Donetsk. Nevertheless, after a while, the couple broke up. Often in her interviews, Yelena said that she wanted a child. In , her dream came true: Isinbayeva gave birth to her daughter Eva. Yelena had to finish her sports career in order to have a child. She also went to Monaco because of too close attention of the press.
The father of the child is the athlete Nikita Petinov. Yelena Isinbayeva married him in December Toggle navigation Logo Biography News About. Celebrities Athletes Yelena Isinbayeva. Yelena Isinbayeva. Name: Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Isinbayeva.
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