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Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva (Russian: Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, IPA: [jɪˈlʲɛnə gɐˈdʐɨjɪvnə ɪsʲɪnˈbajɪvə]; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007, and 2013), the world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time.[1][2] Isinbayeva was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics after revelations of an extensive state-sponsored doping program in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement after winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016[3] after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC's Athletes' Commission.[4][5]
Isinbayeva has been a major champion on nine occasions (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the jackpot winner of the IAAF Golden League series in 2007 and 2009. After poor performances at the world championships in 2009 and 2010, she took a year-long break from the sport.
She became the first woman to clear the five-metre barrier in 2005. Her existing world record is 5.06 m outdoors, set in Zürich in August 2009.[6] Her 5.01 m indoors was the world record for just over a year.[7] The latter was Isinbayeva's twenty-eighth pole vault world record.
Isinbayeva was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009. In 2007 she entered in the FICTS "Hall of Fame" and was awarded with "Excellence Guirlande D'Honneur".[8] She was given the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2009. She is one of only ten athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, David Storl and Faith Kipyegon) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
She is a major in the Russian Armed Forces.[9][10]
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- ^ "New world record for Isinbayeva". Eurosport. Yahoo! Sports. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ^ "Edizion 2007 - Ficts". Ficts. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ Ladden-Hall, Dan (12 July 2023). "Top Putin Confidante Secretly Moved to Island Paradise: Report". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ^ "Putin loyalist and former Olympic pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva moves to NATO country". The Insider. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
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