Isinbayeva 4.95 in Donetsk for a new indoor World Record!!

[rainbowgirl28]

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnew ... 51,00.html

Isinbayeva breaks own indoor world record
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DONETSK, Ukraine, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva broke the world indoor pole vault record by clearing 4.95 metres at the Sergei Bubka invitational meeting on Saturday.
The Russian beat her own mark of 4.93 set in the same competition organised by the great Ukrainian pole vaulter in his home town a year ago.
It was the third consecutive year in which she improved on the indoor record.
Isinbayeva twice failed to clear 4.94 before raising the bar one centimetre to set her 21st world record, indoor and outdoor.
"I'm really happy with my performance here because it has been a long time, 12 months to be exact, since I last broke the world record," the 25-year-old told reporters.
Isinbayeva became the first woman to break the outdoor five metres barrier in July 2005 in London before vaulting 5.01 at the world championships in Helsinki the following month. (Reporting by Boris Glebov; writing by Gennady Fyodorov; editing by Rex Gowar and Ken Ferris)

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.iaaf.org/WIC08/news/kind=100 ... 43411.html

Isinbayeva again! 4.95 World record in Donetsk - NEWS FLASH

4.93 in Donetsk - another World record for Yelena Isinbayeva (2007) (Organisers)
In her 2008 debut, Yelena Isinbayeva raised her own World record indoors to 4.95m* today at the Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine.

The 25-year-old Russian added two centimetres to the previous indoor mark she set one year ago at this same competition.

This was the third consecutive year in which Isinbayeva, who has leaped 5.02 outdoors, broke the indoor mark in Donetsk.

Russian Yuliya Golubchikova finished second with a 4.72 clearance, with Monica Pyrek of Poland third (4.67).

Look for a complete report later from our correspondent in Donetsk.

* pending the usual ratification procedures

IAAF

[SlickVT]

Can someone clarify if this is considered a world record? I thought the IAAF was considering indoor and out as one pool of records.

Thanks.

[rainbowgirl28]

Can someone clarify if this is considered a world record? I thought the IAAF was considering indoor and out as one pool of records.

Thanks.

Indoor records are still indoor records, but outdoor records don't count if they are lower than the indoor. In other words how Stacy Dragila got screwed out of her last world record.

Why Bubka's outdoor record still counts I don't know. I think they did not make it retroactive.

[BruceFlorman]

They're no longer called "outdoor" records are they? I thought they were "absolute" records now.

[BruceFlorman]

Here's Boris Valiev's article that was posted on SovSport.ru this morning. There's an actual interview on Sport-Express.ru, but I didn't even think to look there until I was almost done with this, and now it's kind of late. I'll try to get to it tomorrow.

18 February 2008, №25-M (17 456)
Isinbaeva’s record pulled in a kilogram of gold.

International “Pole Vault Stars” tournament

This past Saturday in Donetsk at the XIX International “Pole Vault Stars” tournament, Olympic champion Yelena Isinbaeva added 2 cm to her previous world record, established last year in the same competition. The new record height is 4 m 95 cm. This is the 21st personal improvement to the table of world achievements made by the 25-year-old sportswoman.

Landing in the mats after jumping 4.95, Yelena took off right there into seventh heaven from happiness. Joyous as a child, unabashed in the expression of her overwhelming feelings. Alright! From a psychological standpoint, this successful attempt was probably even more important for her than the record jump of 5.01 almost three years ago. Admirers were growing tired of waiting for such jumps from her. Over the past summer, after a series of unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the next record, it seemed that even Yelena herself began to doubt that she would eventually succeed. The impression proved to be deceptive...

On Saturday Isinbaeva begin the competition at the height of 4.67. She took care of it on her first attempt, as she did the following, at 4.77, ensuring herself of victory. Already having won, she ordered 4.87, but got over this boundary only on the third try. And then – again two unsuccessful attempts at the world record height of 4.94 – a carbon copy of last year’s scenario. Truly, the bar was twice knocked down at the height of 4.92 then. Taking a risk, Yelena raised it 1 cm higher and conquered it!

It was just the same on this Saturday. If it doesn’t turn out at 4.94, it will come out at 4.95. And indeed it worked out!

By the way, this is the sixth world record that the “honorary citizen of Donetsk” Yelena Isinbaeva (this title was conferred upon her in 2006 – editor’s note) has established in this city of miners. As her reward, like last year, she received a kilogram ingot of pure gold from the local bank, one of the heads of which is the famous Sergey Bubka.

“I always think about the world record, when I come to Donetsk, even in a situation like now. Indeed this is my first start of the year,” said Yelena immediately after the awards ceremony, as she was moved to tears. “I’m very glad that it was possible to open the Olympic season with a world record. This is a good omen.”

10 INDOOR RECORDS OF YELENA ISINBAEVA

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Height    Date         Location
 4,81  15.02.2004  Donetsk (Ukraine)
 4,83  15.02.2004  Donetsk (Ukraine)
 4,86  06.03.2004  Budapest (Hungary)
 4,87  12.02.2005  Donetsk (Ukraine)
 4,88  18.02.2005  Birmingham (Great Britain)
 4,89  26.02.2005  Levin (France)
 4,90  06.03.2005  Madrid (Spain)
 4,91  12.02.2006  Donetsk (Ukraine)
 4,93  10.02.2007  Donetsk (Ukraine)
 4,95  16.02.2008  Donetsk (Ukraine)

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[lonestar]

Were complete results from Donetsk posted?

[BruceFlorman]

I haven't found all the X's and O's yet, but the final results are here:
http://www.tilastopaja.org/staticresult ... 384333.htm

[achtungpv]

I haven't found all the X's and O's yet, but the final results are here:
http://www.tilastopaja.org/staticresult ... 384333.htm

http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/mendonetsk2008%5f889.pdf

http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/womendonetsk2008%5f888.pdf

[BruceFlorman]

Here's Yuri Yuris' interview with Isi (plus additional commentary from Bubka) that appeared Monday on the Sport-Express website:

Yelena Isinbaeva: the first start, and right away – a world record!

On Saturday at the "Pole Vault Stars" tournament in Donetsk, the famous vaulter from Russia overcame 4.95 meters on her third attempt. Thus, she bettered last year’s achievement, established right here, by 2 centimeters.

Donetsk, definitely a happy city for Isinbaeva, two years ago officially proclaimed her an honorary citizen. Not once has the sportswoman yet left there without a world record since 2004, when the women first appeared together with the men in the "Pole Vault Stars" program. As a matter of fact, Isinbaeva and her appearance, which the organizers make no secret of, and the world record holder’s jump-flights, are the program’s main attraction.

This time the subject of the prima vaulter’s battle with the height (as usual, only with the height, and not her rivals) was intriguing, even with elements of drama, having hardly begun in the sector. After taking off “for a warm-up” at 4.67, Isinbaeva added 10 more centimeters, and again took the height on her first attempt – and became winner of the tournament. Everyone in the "friendship" sport palace hall (including Sergey Bubka, whose commentary you can read below), were sure that the world record would be Yelena’s next target. However, the sportswoman herself decided otherwise, ordered 4.87 – and... nearly buried the hopes for a record jump. This height only submitted to Isinbaeva on her third attempt...

– Maybe such a risk was unwise, instead of immediately going for the record? – asked your "SE" correspondent Yuri YURIS, of the world record holder.

- I don’t consider it so. The first two heights certainly hadn’t convinced me that I was ready yet to threaten the record. I reckoned that some more serious testing was necessary. In the first start of season you always go a little bit by feel. For example, I needed to change poles four times, searching for the one with optimum stiffness for today.

- Did the delay in competition also influence you? (The women’s tournament, barely after starting, was interrupted for almost an hour – the time needed to repair a broken box for the support. - Y.Y.)

- Absolutely. By duration, it was the longest tournament in my life. Certainly, I was disposed for the record, but speaking honestly, at some points I doubted that it was possible.

- What stirred you to overcome these doubts?

- Let’s just say that the promise I made the day before, played a decisive role. When I was asked at the press conference whether it was worth expecting a world record, my words flew off too categorically: “it’s worth it.” With these I backed myself into a corner. (laughing) If I hadn’t jumped it, I’d be full of hot air... Thank God everything came out.

- After two unsuccessful jumps at 4.94 for the record, you passed the last attempt to 4.95. Did last year’s experience prove useful, when right here at the "Pole Vault Stars", you already made this feint?

- It’s too widely practiced among vaulters to call it a “feint”. On one hand, raising the bar is a psychological step, which yields the necessary emotions: you know that one attempt remains; but the new height involuntarily produces a feeling like everything is just beginning... It re-tunes your internal state. Furthermore, after you’re alone in the sector, you receive an particularly practical benefit from raising the bar – several extra minutes of rest while the judges re-measure the height and re-position the bar...

- During the competition there was a moment when Yuliya Golubchikova, who arrived in Donetsk as the world leader this season, was five centimeters ahead of you. Don’t you feel that your rivals are getting closer?

- No. I’ll probably only feel that way when they learn to jump 15 - 20 centimeters higher.

- Like two years ago, you again prepared for the season in Donetsk. What did you do the last month-and-a-half?

- High pole vaulting is technically complex; it must be gradually put together, like a puzzle. That’s what we’ve been doing.

- And how has it gone together?

- Thus far we’re not done. Vitaly Afanasevich (Petrov, Isinbaeva’s trainer. - Y.Y.) figures that another two weeks are needed to attain the necessary rhythm and form of jumps.

- Nevertheless, you got the world record...

- I’m surprised myself! I approached the third attempt at 4.95 entirely without strength. I jumped only on emotion, because of the music playing over the competition, and the support in the hall. How I climbed over the bar – I don’t remember. Everything was as if in a fog.

- What’s next?

- The next start is February 20th in Bydgoszcz Poland. Then the gathering in Paris, where possibly I’ll also come out. And Valencia, the indoor world championships on 7 - 8 March. That will conclude the winter season for me.

- Does your preparation plan for the Olympiad in Beijing already exist?

- I understand it. My coach and I plan to begin the summer season on 13 July at the tournament in Rome. In all there will be five preliminary starts, including qualifications in the Olympic tournament. Immediately before the trip to Beijing we’ll carry out an 11-day gathering in Japan.

Commentary of Sergey BUBKA:

- I reckon that Lena committed a tactical blunder on Saturday, and nearly cost her, and all of us, a world record. After good jumps at 4.67 and 4.77 she needed to immediately go after the world record. The normal tactics for a sportswoman of this level, who has no real rivals in the sector: the first height – a warm-up, the second – victory, the third – the record. I myself always adhered to precisely this approach, without wasting energy on excess jumps. Lena, for some reason, ordered up 4.87, which brought her nothing but superfluous agitation and useless expenditure of strength.

This is one side of the coin. But there’s another. Only Isinbaeva was capable of getting herself out of the situation in which she appeared with that last jump at 4.95. Once again she proved that she can do anything she wants in the sector; that the result depends on her mastery. And on her desire to complete, which from the outside sometimes seems impossible.

Donetsk. 16 February. Light Athletics "Zepter Pole Vault Stars" tournament. Women. 1. ISINBAEVA – 4.95 (world record). 2. GOLUBCHIKOVA (both - Russia) – 4.72. 3. Pyrek (Poland) – 4.67. Men. 1. Mazuryk (Ukraine) – 5.81. 2. PAVLOV – 5.81. 3. LUKYANENKO (both - Russia) – 5.81.

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[BruceFlorman]

Well this will probably be the last word from Donetsk, since Bydgoszcz gets cranked up in just a few more hours, but here's the latest from AllSport.ru:

13:36 19.02.2008 – Light Athletics
Vitaly Petrov: Lena didn’t break the tradition of setting records in Donetsk
February 16th at the "Pole Vault Stars" tournament in Donetsk the Russia’s Yelena Isinbaeva established a new indoor world record in the women’s pole vault – 4.95 m, improving her previous achievement by two centimeters. Her coach Vitaly Petrov described to the Agency of Sport Information "All Sport" the reasons that Isinbaeva forewent the height of 4.94 m.

“For Lena the first start of the season was extremely important,” said Vitaly Petrov. “Already she has established world records three years in a row in Donetsk; here she’s supported like nowhere else; here the majority of spectators come specifically "for Isinbaeva". Had the record not come out, this would have been – not a blow, no – but certainly an alarm bell; an occasion to be slightly upset. I’m very glad that everything came out so well! We tried different variants, changed poles four times over the course of the competition. To jump the intermediate 4.87 m after Lena remained alone in the sector at 4.77 was my idea. At the first start it was important to get into a rhythm, loosen up, and get back all the competitive sensations. For this an intermediate height was required. She conquered it, and then we went after the record. I need to give credit to Lena, as she herself proposed after two failures at 4.94 to put it up to 4.95 m. This gave her a little extra time to rest, and the extra centimeter means nothing. The record attempt came out successfully with good technique. Well done, Lena! We didn’t break the tradition of records in Donetsk!”

Vitaly Petrov also analyzed the prospects for Isinbaeva to improve her world record soon. “Everything will depend on that how well Lena recovers. In Donetsk she was in the sector a total of more than five hours. Then there was the press conference, and it was nearly night when she reached home. And the very next day Lena went to St. Petersburg for the Laureus Awards ceremony, where she was also nervous. The next start is tomorrow already – on February 20th in Bydgoszcz Poland. We’ll just hope that all goes well,” concluded Vitaly Petrov.

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I see 5.10m outdoors this year if she chooses/gets the chance to break it by that much.