Golden Gala - Isinbayeva 5.03 New World Record!!

[rainbowgirl28]

She thanks the crowd in impressive sounding Italian. She does train in Italy, so I am sure she's been working on it for years.

[BruceFlorman]

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1  ISINBAEVA, Yelena     RUS  -   -   -   -   -   o   -   -   o   xo  xo  WR 5.03
2  PYREK, Monica         POL  -   -   o   o   o   o   o   xxx            =SB 4.75
3  SPIEGELBURG, Silke    GER  -   o   o   xo  xo  xxo xxx                 PB 4.70
4  FEOFANOVA, Svetlana   RUS  -   -   o   o   o   xxx                        4.65
5  MURER, Fabiana        BRA  -   -   xo  o   o   -   xxx                    4.65
6  GOLUBCHIKOVA, Yulyia  RUS  -   o   o   o   xxx                            4.55
6  POLNOVA, Tatyana      RUS  -   -   o   o   xxx                            4.55
8  HINGST, Caroline      GER  o   o   o   xo  xxx                        =SB 4.55
9  KUSHCH, Natalya       UKR  o   o   xxo xxx                                4.45
10 COSTA, Joana          BRA  o   xo  xxx                                =SB 4.35
   ROGOWSKA, Anna        POL  -   -   xxx                                    NH


Is 4.75 really Pyrek's PB? I was thinking she'd jumped 4.80 at some point.

Edit: Okay, I'll assume (for now) that the notation was supposed to be =SB then.

[annagb]

Pyrek jumped 4,82m last year in Stuttgart.

[ashcraftpv]

Yelena Isinbaeva - ROME - 4.70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4blPgHCgMU

got any more of her jumps? I got called into a meeting after 4.95m and missed her WR

[slvr1969]

Golden Gala - Isinbayeva 5.03 - New World Record - VIDEO CLIP!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBufx7_Dao

[maxiverson]

Does anyone know what pole length and flex she was on? It looked like a 14'7 to me... And what about Jenn Stuczynski at the trials?

[annagb]

I am really curious about this too. Do you mean 4,60m (sorry...)? I think Isinbaeva's pole could be a 4,60m.

[BruceFlorman]

The Russian press is stoked...

01:13 12.07.2008 - Third Stage of the Golden League of Athletics-2008
Yelena Isinbaeva set a new world record - 5.03!!!

Olympic Games, World and European champion in the women's pole vault, Yelena Isinbaeva (in photo) on the night of July 11th & 12th Moscow time, at the third stage of the Golden League in Rome, has set a new world record - 5.03m! So reports the special correspondent of the Agency of Sport Information "All Sport".

Isinbaeva cleared the record height on her second attempt, thereby exceeding her own record, set at the world championships in Helsinki in 2005, by 2 cm.

All details of the new record, including comments from Yelena Isinbaeva herself - coming soon to the site of the Agency of Sport Information "All Sport".

[BruceFlorman]

Yep. Isi's passing. Not sure that's such a good idea, but ... whatever.

Okay, I guess maybe there's a reason why Petrov is revered among the vaulting community and I'm the "Joe Sixpack" of T&F fans (I should change my "handle"). If I'd bothered to check the AllSport.ru website earlier this afternoon, I would've seen that he and Isi had already laid out their plan of action.

14:45 11.07.2008 - Athletics - Third stage of the Golden League of Athletics-2008
Yelena Isinbaeva will begin the tournament in Rome at the height of 4.70!

Olympic Games, World and European champion, and world record holder in the women’s pole vault Yelena Isinbaeva, will begin her competition today, July 11th at the third stage of the "Golden League" in Rome at the height of 4.70 meters – compared to 4.65 last season. Isinbaeva’s personal coach Vitaly Petrov spoke about this with the special correspondent of the Agency of Sport Information "All Sport".

"This season Lena and I have decided to alter her distribution of heights,” said Vitaly Petrov. “Now we’ll start with a height of 4.70 meters, then 4.85, and after that – we’ll see how it goes. Compared to last year when we jumped 4.65 - 4.80, we’ve gone up five centimeters. Thus it will be easier to go after records - the difference between the heights is less. Yes, it means Lena will have to wait even longer for her first attempt, but there’s nothing you can do. It’s the fate of anyone who’s stronger. Physically she’s very well prepared. The important thing is to cope psychologically. Lena’s sign of the Zodiac is Gemini, and in one of today’s newspapers I just read her horoscope for the day: “You can achieve any victory, if starting today you will give yourself fully to the objective.” It’s just amazing how appropriate this is for Lena! And I want to see her follow the horoscope’s advice!"

[Bubba PV]

She sure looks great on the video. This will be a huge year for her if that's her opener. Bubba

[slvr1969]

she looks great!

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=46030.html

“I run faster, I long jump longer, but more important, inside I feel so happy” – Isinbayeva - ÅF Golden League, Rome

Yelena Isinbayeva with her new world record figures (Getty Images)
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Rome, Italy - Yelena Isinbayeva said that she was motivated by anger to set her 22nd World record in the women’s Pole Vault here tonight (11).

Isinbayeva, Russia’s Olympic, World and European champion, jumped 5.03m to beat by 2cm the mark of 5.01 she had held since 2005.

Competing in the ‘28th Golden Gala Kinder+Sport’ meeting in the Olympic Stadium, in the third of the season’s ÅF Golden League fixtures, Isinbayeva cleared the new record height at her second attempt and celebrated by running straight to her coach, Vitaliy Petrov, who hugged her with delight.

The 26-year-old Isinbayeva was then asked if she felt she could improve on her new record and she referred to her often-stated intention to beat the 35 World records set in the men’s Pole Vault by Ukraine’s Sergey Bubka. “I think you know the answer,” she said. “You saw I was not near at the bar, I was higher. My goal is to jump 36 World records.

“Here in Rome are good facilities, I love this crowd, and they want something great from me. From the beginning the plan was for me to jump 4.70, 4.85, 4.95 and 5.02 but when I jumped over 4.95 Vitaliy told me to try 5.03 because he said ‘you have tried a lot of times 5.02 and nothing happened, so we should change something’ and we did 5.03.”

Isinbayeva set the record in her first outdoor meeting of the year, having said beforehand that the timing of her opening competition was perfect with the Olympics in mind. She will have three more competitions before Beijing, in Stockholm, London and Monte Carlo.

The 4.92m Area record set by Jenn Stuczynski at the United States trials on 6 July had, for the second time this year, following her 4.90m Area record on 18 May, called into question whether Isinbayeva had long to last as World No.1. This drew a response from the Russian when she was asked whether her training for this season had differed in any way from previous years.

“It was not different,” she said. “Everything was like every other time but maybe I am more angry. When Stuczynski jumped 4.90 then 4.92 it made me so angry because everyone started to say ‘Isinbayeva is finished, we have a new star’. It made me angry and I am happy for that feeling because I didn’t feel it enough since my last World record.”

“Today I was so happy with my jumping because before I was looking on TV and my technique was terrible. But today I loved myself so much!” The crowd in the stadium loved her to as she spoke in Italian and later, at her World record press conference, she switched between English and Italian. She trains with Petrov in Formia.”

Asked why it had taken only one month short of three years to improve her outdoor World record, Isinbayeva – who raised her indoor World record to 4.95 this year – said: “Because of the problems I had before, changes in my technique, my personal life, my coach, my life generally. But today I feel happy inside - so, so happy. Today I feel like the previous Isinbayeva.

“I think I am stronger now in my personal condition. I run faster, I long jump longer, but more important, inside I feel so happy, so calm. Before I was full of problems.”

David Powell for the IAAF