Another WR for Isinbayeva - 4.88i

[ashcraftpv]

http://www.polevaultpit.com/?q=node/833

Yelena Isinbayeva set her second pole vault world record in a week and became the first woman to clear 16 feet indoors Friday at the Norwich Union Grand Prix meet.

[Bruce Caldwell]

That is impressive

[NovaVault]

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=28581.html

Isinbayeva breaks World Indoor record in Birmingham
Friday 18 February 2005

Birmingham - Yelena Isinbayeva’s twelfth World Pole Vault record came almost as a matter of course at the Norwich Union Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham, a meeting that also included a World leading 200m from Veronica Campbell, a last gasp Long Jump victory for Carolina Klüft, and the rare sight of Kenenisa Bekele being outkicked over the final 200m of a two mile race.

Kelly Holmes got the crowd on their feet with a commanding victory in the 1000m (though she still doesn’t know if she’s going to Madrid), and Greene, Gardener, Lewis-Francis and Collins were all beaten in the 60m.

Isinbayeva needed only four jumps and attempted only three heights to secure victory and another dollop of prize money. The 22-year-old Russian entered at 4.60m by which time only her fierce rival Svetlana Feofanova and Poland’s Anna Rogowska were still in competition. Rogowska was having an off night though and she went out at that height exiting with only 4.45m to her name.

Feofanova went on to clear 4.70m, which Isinbayeva skipped, before going out at 4.79m.

Isinbayeva hopped over 4.79m like it was a skip in the park and then, with victory in the bag, took two attempts at 4.88m. The first had the height, but she clipped the bar on the way down. On the second she made the right adjustments before popping over to add another $30,000 to her winnings.

“I didn’t realise I was in such good shape,â€Â

[rainbowgirl28]

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/athletics/s ... 40,00.html

Isinbayeva shows again: vaults are for cash

Duncan Mackay
Saturday February 19, 2005
The Guardian

Yelena Isinbayeva tends to use Britain's televised meetings as her own personal cash-point machine. Any time the Russian pole-vaulter feels her bank account needs topping up she simply pays a visit.

Last night her fifth consecutive meeting in England coincided with a world record to take her bonuses from the Norwich Union sponsors to $170,000 (£95,000) in two years.

Unusually she needed two attempts to set the new standard but there was a sense of inevitability as she sailed over 4.88 metres. It was her second world record inside a week, having set her previous best mark at a meeting in Donetsk last Saturday. Appropriately Sergei Bubka had staged that event in Ukraine because she is following his example of increasing the record a centimetre at a time, and it stretched the limits of creditability when she claimed: "I don't do this for the money, I do it for the crowd."

Her bonus for breaking the record last week was a car, although she is unlikely to trade in her top-of-the-range Mercedes for the Skoda.

If she sets her mind to it, few doubt the 22-year-old Moscow athlete has the ability to break through the five-metre barrier but it is obviously in her best interests to take it slowly. There are also five-figure bonuses from her shoe sponsors for each new mark.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=513007

BIRMINGHAM, England Feb 18, 2005 â€â€

[rainbowgirl28]

Results


wPV 1 Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) 4.88 [INDOOR WORLD RECORD]
(4.60-o, 4.79-o, 4.88-xo)
2 Svetlana Feofanova (RUS) 4.70 (4.45-o, 4.60-o, 4.70-xo, 4.79-xxx)
3 Anna Rogowska (POL) 4.45 (4.30-xo, 4.45-xxo, 4.60-xxx)
4 Dana Ellis-Buller (CAN) 4.30
5 Natalya Kushch (UKR) 4.30
6 Janine Whitlock 4.10,
7 Kate Dennison 3.90

[jonmulk]

I was at the Birmingham meet, and if anyone's interested, here are some pics I took there:

http://stuff.runjumpthrow.com/bgp05/

[lonestar]

4.30 for Dana Ellis Buller - Way to go Dana!

[VaultNinja]

WHY ARE THEY CALLING IT A WORLD RECORD!!! LAST YEAR WHEN STACY BROKE IT THEY WOULDN'T COUNT IT!!! I THOUGHT THAT THERE WEREN'T ANY MORE INDOOR OR OUTDOOR PV RECORDS ACCORDING TO IAAF, JUST ONE OVERALL RECORD!!! OUTDOOR OR INDOOR ARE THE SAME!!! BUT IF A RUSSIAN BREAKS THE INDOOR WORLD RECORD THEN IT IS A RECORD!!!! WELL f*** THAT!!! THIS IS SOME BULL s***!!! GO TO HELL IAAF!!! CHEATING *******!!!

[jonmulk]

WHY ARE THEY CALLING IT A WORLD RECORD!!! LAST YEAR WHEN STACY BROKE IT THEY WOULDN'T COUNT IT!!! I THOUGHT THAT THERE WEREN'T ANY MORE INDOOR OR OUTDOOR PV RECORDS ACCORDING TO IAAF, JUST ONE OVERALL RECORD!!! OUTDOOR OR INDOOR ARE THE SAME!!! BUT IF A RUSSIAN BREAKS THE INDOOR WORLD RECORD THEN IT IS A RECORD!!!! WELL f*** THAT!!! THIS IS SOME BULL s***!!!

They're not calling it a 'World Record' as such, they are calling it a 'World indoor record', as it is still lower than the outdoor one. If it was above 4.92m, then it would be a 'world record', outright.

Stacey's wasn't a 'world record' because when she vaulted 4.83m, the indoor record was higher (4.86m), and so it wasn't an outright record.

[rainbowgirl28]

Yeah it's a double standard. You can set a world INDOOR record, but you can't set a world OUTDOOR record *rolls eyes*

[jonmulk]

When Stacey vaulted 4.83m last year, it was counted as a 'World outdoor best' though, wasn't it..? And I'm pretty sure (though not certain) that she got some sort of bonus for it.

So there's no double standards whatsoever. The only difference is that now (because of Stacey's mini-fiasco), everyone is a lot clearer on the rules.