Stockholm - Isinbayeva 4.76, Spiegelburg 4.70, Suhr, Feo 464

[rainbowgirl28]

Feofanova misses her second attempt at 4.76

[rainbowgirl28]

Spiegelburg misses her second attempt.

Let's go Jenn...

[rainbowgirl28]

Suhr misses her second attempt as well.

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Feofanova misses her third attempt at 4.76, she'll finish in 4th place.

[rainbowgirl28]

Close attempt for Spiegelburg! A miss though and she is out, finishing in second or third.

It looked like she had the height but brushed off the bar on the way down.

[rainbowgirl28]

Suhr misses her third attempt at 4.76 and is out She looked a little sluggish, perhaps still recovering from the trip overseas. Not a bad performance though!!

Now it's a matter of seeing what Isi will attempt. She will need to clean up her form even more to make another bar.

[rainbowgirl28]

Not a very close first attempt at 4.86

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Isi misses her second attempt, they haven't shown it yet.

[rainbowgirl28]

OK third attempt for Isi... up on the video feed now...

Meh. It was an OK attempt but not super close.

[slvr1969]

thanks

[slvr1969]

http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/dlm/ne ... 61012.html

Isinbayeva silences the doubters

Yelena Isinbayeva silenced her critics who, after she no heighted in Lignano last week (20 July) and then withdrew from the Lucerne meet in Lucerne two days later after injuring her wrist in a fall in warm-up, had questioned whether she will be a force at the IAAF World Championships next month.

The 29-year-old Russian bounced back with an excellent performance. Confidently not entering the competition until the bar was at 4.64m and although failing on her first attempt and being lucky that the bar stayed on when she tried again, that clearance seemed to dispel any remaining doubts she might have had lurking in her mind.

In a competition containing her main rivals for Daegu, where she insists she can regain her World crown after no heighting two years ago in Berlin, she laid a challenge down to Germany's Silke Spiegelburg, Jen Suhr of the USA, fellow Russian Svetlana Feofanova and World Indoor champion Fabian Murer of Brazil and after all had passed 4.58m, the contest began in earnest.

After her 4.64m opener Isinbayeva rested herself until attempting 4.76m and let her opponents fight between themselves with Spiegelburg having the best fortune attempting and clearing 4.70m, a bar which saw the elimination of Murer (5th 4.51m)

The German took runner-up with that height when Suhr and Feofanova, who passed, had three failures at 4.76m with the latter taking third on count-back at 4.64m.

Isinbayeva then sailed over 4.76 at her first attempt before failing three times at what would have been a world lead and meet record of 4.86m.

"The competition and the technique was okay, it was nice to be back," said the Olympic champion and World record holder who missed the 2010 outdoor season to recharge her batteries. "I did not have any expectations about heights and just wanted to win."