Isinbayeva IAAF Female Athlete of Year... again

[rainbowgirl28]

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Bekele and Isinbayeva win Athletes of the Year titles for second year
Saturday 10 September 2005

Monte-Carlo - World and Olympic champions Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia have been announced as the men’s and women’s 2005 Athletes of the Year on stage tonight at the climax to the spectacular 2005 World Athletics Gala at the Fairmont Hotel, Monte-Carlo.

Bekele and Isinbayeva, who also won these titles in 2004, have produced another exemplary year of performances with triumphs stretching from the indoor season to this summer’s World Championships in Helsinki and beyond.




2005 World Athlete of the Year Kenenisa Bekele
(Getty Images)

In Helsinki, both these 23-year-olds took gold medals in their respective events, the men’s 10,000m and women’s Pole Vault. Most recently the Ethiopian sped to a stunning new World 10,000m record in Brussels improving his own mark by nearly three seconds to 26:17.53. For her part, the Russian following on from her historic 5.00m breakthrough in London in July, and her most recent 5.01 World record clearance in Helsinki, also won today at the 3rd World Athletics Final in Monaco.

Isinbayeva

As well as her World title, Isinbayeva’s female Athlete of the Year award is due to her extraordinary feat of setting four World Indoor Pole Vault records in the winter and five absolute World records outdoors this summer. In the winter, her win at the European Indoor Championships with 4.90m provided one of those World Indoor records, while her 41cm margin of victory in the World Championships in Helsinki was the greatest ever obtained in any World or Olympic competition for the event.

Following her award, Isinbayeva commented, “I’m so happy to win this (World Athlete of the Year and World Athletics Final) two years in a row.â€Â

[izzystikchik]

i like the "again" part you have for the title of this post...haha....i thought it was funny....

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[cevat yağc&#]

ısıbayeva is very good pole vaulter women