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Official Results - Pole Vault - Women - Final
Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 16:35  

Pos  Bib   Athlete Country Mark      
1  748   Isinbayeva Yelena RUS 4.86   (WR)  
2  813   Dragila Stacy USA 4.81   (AR)  
3  746   Feofanova Svetlana RUS 4.70      
4  821   Schwartz Jillian USA 4.60   (PB)  
5  722   Pyrek Monika POL 4.50      
5  604   Boslak Vanessa FRA 4.50   (NR)  
7  723   Rogowska Anna POL 4.40      
8  633   Ryshich Nastja GER 4.40      

Athlete 420 430 440 450 460 470 476 481 486 491 500

Isinbayeva Yelena - - O O O O O XO O X- X
Dragila Stacy - - XO O O O O XXO X- XX
Feofanova Svetlana - - O O O O X- XX
Schwartz Jillian XO O O XXO XO XXX
Pyrek Monika - O - O XXX
Boslak Vanessa O - O O XXX
Rogowska Anna O O XXO XXX
Ryshich Nastja O XO XXO XXX

http://www.iaaf.org/WIC04/news/Kind=2/newsId=24412.html

Isinbayeva's shining example
Saturday 6 March 2004


Budapest, Hungary - Many had predicted that Russian women athletes would set a couple – or even more - World records today and indeed the superb competition at the Budapest Sportarena confirmed the pre-championships omens.

In the space of just over one hour spectators were treated to new World Indoor records in the women’s Triple Jump and Pole Vault, courtesy of Tatyana Lebedeva and Yelena Isinbayeva respectively.


It took Lebedeva just one jump to kill off the competition with her equal World record 15.16m opener, a mark which she later improved twice more (15.25m – second attempt and 15.36m – last attempt). But the road to the World record was slightly longer for her team-mate and great friend Isinbayeva.

Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) sets a new Pole Vault World record
(Getty Images)

The 22-year old athlete from Volgograd had a clean sheet all the way up to 4.76m at which height only her compatriot and now former World record holder Svetlana Feofanova, and Olympic champion Stacy Dragila (USA), were left in the competition.

Isinbayeva was the image of serenity. After an impressive first-time clearance at 4.76m, she had the first miss of her competition at 4.81m, only to come back and take a well clear second attempt. 

Former World record holder Dragila, 33, who has been well below-par in recent years had the nerves to sail over 4.81m at her last attempt and remained in the competition. This was in stark contrast to Feofanova’s fortunes, who after one 4.76 failure had moved on and gone out after two tries at 4.81.

For Isinbayeva “Dragila was an extra motivational factor,â€Â