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Isinbayeva sets world indoor pole vault record



Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva expended the minimum energy to the maximum effect on Saturday when she set a world indoor pole vault best in her first competition of the year.


Reuters

Feb. 12 DONETSK, Ukraine â€â€

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Isinbayeva is immediately up, up and away to a new season and a new World Indoor record!
Sunday 13 February 2005


Donetsk, Ukraine - Yelena Isinbayeva made her 2005 debut an auspicious one, setting a new World Indoor record of 4.87 to highlight the high-charged and thoroughly entertaining Zepter Pole Vault Stars Meeting in this southeast Ukrainian city on Saturday (12 Feb).


Picking up where she left off in 2004


Picking up virtually where she left off late last summer, the Olympic champion and 2004 Athlete of the Year added a centimetre to the indoor standard she set last March when she leaped to the World Indoor title in Budapest. The 22-year-old Russian took just five jumps during the competition, with her sizable clearances at 4.50, 4.70 and 4.75 clearly indicating that a record at the sold-out Druzhba Auditorium was all but certain. After a first attempt run-through, Isinbayeva rocked steadily to the blaring beat of her chosen jump song, before storming down the runway before her seemingly effortless leap, again clearing with several centimetres to spare.


“Thank you so much,â€Â

http://www.trackprofile.com/2005/05-02-12-Donetsk.html

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