Meeting Clermont Ferrand: Isinbayeva and Murer 4.61

[ilios]

1. Isinbayeva 4.61
2. Murer 4.61
3 Shvedova 4.56

[BruceFlorman]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/ ... bayeva.php

Isinbayeva clears only 4.61 meters in winning French indoor meet
The Associated Press
Published: February 26, 2008

CLERMONT-AUVERGNE, France: Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva easily won at a French indoor meet and missed a chance at her indoor world record on Tuesday.

Isinbayeva cleared only 4.61 meters, the same height she reached last week to finish second in the Pedro's Cup in Poland.

She made 4.61 on her second attempt at Clermont-Auvergne and vainly tried for 4.96 to add one centimeter to her indoor world record.

Fabiana Murer of Brazil also cleared 4.61 but placed second because she took three attempts.

Murer than failed at 4.71, while Anastasiya Shvedova of Russia cleared 4.56 to finish third.

Last Wednesday in Poland, Isinbayeva was beaten by 10 centimeters by former record-holder Svetlana Feofanova.

Ten days ago Isinbayeva set her 21st world record and 10th indoors when she cleared 4.95 at the Pole Vault Stars in Donetsk, Ukraine.

She set her 5.01 world outdoor record at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki, Finland, and missed 14 attempts at beating it last year.

Isinbayeva is firm favorite to win at the March 7-9 world indoor championships in Valencia, Spain.

I know ... who am I to disagree with Bubka? But I still think an intermediate height between 4.61 and 4.96 might be a good idea.

[rainbowgirl28]

I agree

[slvr1969]

Pictures of 26.02.08, Meeting Gaz de France Clermont Auvergne — France, Aubiere

http://clermont.athle.com/asp.net/espaces.medias/medias.aspx?section=568&mode=&day=26&month=2&year=2008

[rainbowgirl28]

Video of a not terribly impressive 4.96 attempt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4393704599

[slvr1969]

very bad effort from her

[ilios]

[quote]Isinbayeva back to winning routine

This meeting raised interest for mainly two reasons regarding the presence of Yelena Isinbayeva. The first was her expected bid to break the World Indoor record she raised to 4.95m in Donetsk on 16 February. The second was that she was beaten in her very next competition, for the first time indoors since 2004 and 23 consecutive wins in or outdoors, in Bydgoszcz by Svetlana Feofanova.

Questions about the end of her dominance in her event were then raised but Aubière would eventually turn into a demonstration of her mental toughness and self-confidence.

Her first bar of the competition, 4.61m, was the last one her Brazilian training partner Fabiana Murer could clear. However, Isinbayeva was leading as she made it at her second attempt, while Murer did it at her last one. Murer was left alone in her trials at 4.71m, which she missed three times.

In the meantime, her Russian rival passed and tried, unsuccessfully, 4.96m. She chose a big pole for this World record attempt but couldn’t bend it properly.

“Maybe it was a lack of run-up speed, or I still haven’t recovered since the 4.95m, because for that jump, I used an even bigger pole.â€

[slvr1969]

Isi Clearing 4.61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pm49mhzOK8