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| Yelena Isinbayeva |
Yelena Isinbayeva (born 3rd June, 1982) is a professional Russian Pole Vaulter. She won twice an Olympic gold medals in year 2004 and 2008. She been five-time World Champion and the current world record holder in the event. She is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time.
She is first woman to clear the 5 meter barrier in year 2005. Isinbayeva’s current world records are 5.06 meter outdoors, a record Isinbayeva set in Zurich in August 2009, and 5.01 meter indoors, a record set in February 2012. Yelena Isinbayeva broke world record 28 times in outdoors and indoors Pole Vault.
After taking a break 11-month in 2011, the ever-confident Yelena, self-assurance was again on display in the interview with Laureus.com.
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| Yelena Isinbayeva |
In interview with Laureus.com, she says” plans to retire in two years”.
Isinbayeva, who is 30 year now, telling Laureus.com, “Training becomes difficult, hard and, of course, every year the body is getting old it becomes harder and harder to prepare for the competition.”The news comes as some surprise considering Isinbayeva’s torrid form so far this year. She won gold at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and recently.
Isinbayeva’s includes 28 world records, and she has set her sights on Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka‘s high mark of 35 world records. She speak in interview “Sergey was a role model,” “He was a star at the time I was starting. It was my goal from the beginning to set up 36 world records. I would like to make one more than Sergey did. So, yes, this is still in my mind and now I feel that I can achieve it.”
“In London, my main competitors will be myself, because I know how high I can jump and I know that height is almost impossible for my rivals. I am not worrying about the Olympics,” Isinbayeva said.
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