Donetsk - Isinbayeva first 5.00 meters indoors!

[rainbowgirl28]

Anyone know where we can get updates from Bubka's meet in Donestk?

[Lynxyara]

Donestk: New World Record from Elena Isinbayeva for Indoor`s PoleVault - 5.00m !

She cleared 4,97 and set new world record (last was 4,95 from Isinbayeva too). Then she tried 5.00m and cleared it with second attempt!

Source:
http://news.sport-express.ru/online/nte ... 84989.html

[Bubba PV]

More on Lena - in English

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/8359739

DONETSK, Ukraine, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Russian Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva extended her own world indoor pole vault record to 5.00 metres at a meeting in Ukraine on Sunday. Isinbayeva, 36, first cleared 4.97 metres to eclipse the mark of 4.95 she set in the same city last year at the event organised by Ukraine men's great and world record holder Sergei Bubka.
The IAAF's female athlete of the year then cleared five metres at her second attempt.
Her outdoor record, recorded when she won gold at the Beijing Games last year, stands at 5.05 metres.
(Editing by Miles Evans)

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... -nqzDsPf3g

Isinbayeva sets new indoor world record in pole vault
22 minutes ago
DONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) — Russia's athletics icon Yelena Isinbayeva set a new indoor world pole vault record of five metres at the annual Bubka memorial tournament here on Sunday.
The 26-year-old beat her previous record of 4.95m, which she achieved here last year, and it was the sixth time in as many years that she has set a new world record indoors in Donetsk.
Two-time Olympic champion Isinbayeva was trailing Brazilian Fabian Murer, who set a new South American record with a 4.81m vault, but managed to clear the 4.86m mark in her next attempt to assure herself top place.
Her next two attempts at 4.96m were unsuccessful, but on her third try she managed to clear 4.97m to set a new world record.
She then ordered the five-metre mark, which she managed to clear on her second attempt.
Steve Hooker of Australia, the Olympic champion, won men's pole vault with 5.92m, but still short of Sergei Bubka's 16-year-old world record of 6.15m.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres ... oxvBc-N4ig

Isinbayeva improves own record
23 minutes ago
Yelena Isinbayeva twice broke her own world indoor pole vault record on Sunday afternoon, clearing 4.97 metres and then five metres in Donetsk.
The world and Olympic champion came into the event already holding a world best of 4.95m but, having struggled early on - only clearing 4.86m at the third attempt, she found the reserves to set a new mark.
Brazilian Fabiana Murer came second at the Pole Vault Stars event hosted by Sergey Bubka with a vault of 4.81m, a new South American record.
Poland's Monika Pyrek was third with 4.71m.

[KLocke]

EME NEWS (FEB 15, 2009) UPDATE

Isinbayeva two world records: 497 and 500, Hooker tried 616

DONETSK (UKR, Feb 15): Another excellent edition of Sergey Bubka´s Zepter Pole Vault Stars (EA Permit)
Australian Steve Hooker remained unbeaten this winter in his fourth meet with 592 in third attempt. After that he went directly to 616 world indoor record, but was not succesfull. Hooker started at 562 in third. His olympic rival Yevgeniy Lukyanenko improved his season best to 582 first attempt clearance and tried hard with one attempt at 587 and two at 592. US Derek Miles was third with a first attempt clearance against Sweden´s Alhaji Jeng (both 572). Jeng cleared on third attempt

Full results

men: 1. Hooker, AUS 592 (562/3, 592/3, 616/xxx), 2. Lukyanenko, RUS 582, 3. Miles, USA 572, 4. Jeng,SWE 572, 5. Korchmid,UKR and Burgess, AUS 562, 7. Starodubtsev, RUS 562, 8. Kucheryanu, RUS 562, 9. Lanaro, MEX 562, 10. Yurchenko, UKR 552, 11. Mack, USA, Janacek, CZE, da Silva, BRA, Pavlov, RUS all 542, 15. O. Bubka, UKR 522

wom: 1. Isinbayeva, RUS 500 WR (476/1, 486/3, 497/1, 500/2), 2. Murer, BRA 481 AR, 3. Pyrek, POL 471, 4. Golubchikova, RUS 471, 5. Hingst, GER 456, 6. Rogowska, POL 456, 7. Kiryashova, RUS 446, 8. Polnova, RUS and Piwowarska, POL 446, 10. L. Rizich, GER 446, 11. Larsasen, NOR 416

[rainbowgirl28]

Here are a few photos: http://www.daylife.com/search/photos/all/1?q=isinbayeva

[rainbowgirl28]

http://iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=49333.html

Isinbayeva debuts with 5.00m World Record in Donetsk! - Updated

Yelena Isinbayeva improves her own world pole vault record to 5.05m to secure Olympic gold (Getty Images)
15 February 2009 – Donetsk, Ukraine - In her 2009 debut, Yelena Isinbayeva raised her own World record indoors twice at the Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine, today, first to 4.97m* and again to 5.00m*.

Jumping before a capacity crowd of more than 5000, the 26-year-old Russian added the indoor five metres milestone to her illustrious career. Isinbayeva, last year's World Athlete of the Year, has now broken the World record indoors in Donetsk for the sixth consecutive year, and today's efforts marked the 25th and 26th world records for the reigning Olympic, world and European champion.

Isinbayeva said that her pre-meet game plan was to add two World records to her already bulging collection.

“We had in mind to first do 4.96 and then five metres,” she said. “The reason is the atmosphere here. It’s a very special competition and there are lots of special connections for me here.” But her plan nearly went awry.

By the time she entered the competition, opening with a massive clearance at 4.76m, only three other jumpers remained: Brazilian Fabiane Murer, Monika Pyrek of Poland, and Russian Yelena Golubchikova. The former two passed at the height while Golubchikova, who won the Russian title on Friday, bowed out.

Isinbayeva decided to pass at 4.81m, which Murer cleared on her second attempt to break her own South American record by a whopping 10cm, and a mark superior to her 4.80m outdoor PB. Murer finally topped out at 4.86m and shockingly, Isinbayeva nearly did as well, not sailing clear until her third attempt.

She didn’t fare much better at 4.96m, missing twice, forcing a re-examination of her playbook. Two tries were enough, she decided, so she had the bar raised a notch to 4.97m.

“It was just superstition,” she said. “We decided for 4.97 instead of wasting another attempt on an unlucky number.”

The gamble paid off with a clearance that left ample room to spare.

With the speakers blaring a DJ Smash version of the Fast Food song, “New Wave” – “I was trying to find a song that would give me goose bumps,” she said of her musical selection – she finally smashed the five metres barrier indoors on her second attempt.

Part of her problem early on, she surmised, was forcing to wait as the competition progressed. “It was almost too much,” see said.

Isinbayeva has two more competitions planned this winter: the Aviva Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham next weekend, and the Prague International on 26 Feb.

For Hooker, the waiting game pays off

Olympic champion Steve Hooker’s momentum continued with his fourth victory in as many outings this winter, this time with a clearance at 5.92m. But his win didn’t come without a few dramatic moments of its own.

Tired from a schedule that’s taken him from New York and Boston to Paris and Donetsk in just two weeks, the Australian decided to pass on a warm-up, fearing fatigue. He opened with a easy clearance at 5.62m, and decided to subsequently pass at 5.72m, 5.82m and 5.86, choosing instead to watch the competition unfold.

“I saw that the others were jumping well,” he said. “The gap was almost too long but I thought it would be safer to wait.”

5.82m claimed Swede Alhaji Jeng, while the next height proved too much for American Derek Miles. After a first attempt miss at 5.87, Olympic silver medallist Yevgeniy Lukyanenko – the leader after a first attempt clearance at 5.82m – passed to 5.92m, where Hooker decided to rejoin the festivities.

After a pair of misses, Hooker produced a massive clearance to seal the victory. As has become custom this season, he immediately had the bar raised to a would-be World record of 6.16m, a centimetre higher than Sergey Bubka’s standar set in Donetsk 16 years ago. But unlike some of the close efforts he displayed on his North American tour, this time he didn’t come particularly close.

“I’ve had so many competitions in just the past week that I’m really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed for a few days,” Hooker said. For that he’ll have to wait until his European tour concludes in Stockholm later this week.

In all, 26 vaulters from 11 countries gathered for the 20th anniversary of the competition organized by Bubka, who is also an IAAF Vice President. Fittingly, the field also included his 22-year-old nephew, Oleksandr Bubka, his older brother Vasiliy’s son. Entering the competition with a 5.50m career best, the younger Bubka, hobbling with a minor injury, cleared 5.20m. One of the on-field commentators was Rodion Gataullin, a member of the event’s indoor six-metre club.

IAAF

* pending the usual ratification procedures

[BethelPV]

In the results the last place guy has the last name Bubka... any relation to the great Sergey?

[VTechVaulter]

i believe nephew

[rainbowgirl28]

In the results the last place guy has the last name Bubka... any relation to the great Sergey?

Read the article right above your post

[BethelPV]

Got ya... My bad on not reading that whole article