MOSCOW, July 30 (R-Sport) – Outgoing pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva heads a strong Russian squad featuring 12 Olympic champions for next month’s world athletics championships on home soil. The 118-strong roster includes all eight victors at last year’s London Olympics as well as Isinbayeva, who announced last week she…
Pole vault world record-holder Yelena Isinbayeva eased her way back into action at the Russian Athletics Championships on Monday. The 31-year-old has already been selected for the 2013 World Championships at the Luzhniki Stadium next month, but she believes it is important to get some competitive practice under her belt…
MOSCOW: Russian pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva said she was feeling good after Monday qualifying for the finals of the Russian athletics championships. Isinbayeva cleared the qualification mark of 4.10m at the second attempt in what was her first performance on home soil in a long time. “I have very…
Prague, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) Russian female pole vault star Elena Isinbayeva, World Champion, admitted that she is analyzing the possibility to stop her sport career after the World Championship in Moscow, from August 10 to 18. “I am thinking of taking a break for a year. I would like…
MOSCOW Dec 14 (Reuters) – Double Olympic champion and pole vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva was named the head of the main athletes’ village of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi on Friday.“We have chosen Yelena Isinbayeva to be the mayor of the athletes’ village in the coastal cluster,” Sochi…
Russia should do more to help its retired sporting heroes, pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva said Monday.The double Olympic champion shelved her own plans to retire after she claimed the bronze medal at the London Games in August, but said former athletes were neglected despite sacrificing their health…
NEW DELHI: Naturally, Vijaypal Singh would dearly love to meet and congratulate the man who broke his national pole vault record of 5.10 metres set over a quarter century ago. KP Benin, with the help of a borrowed fibre glass pole, leaped 5.13m in the Inter-Railway meet at the Tantya…
OSAKA, Japan — While her competitors struggled, one dropping out with a leg injury, another puffy-eyed and crying after a dispute with the judges, Yelena Isinbayeva remained in her bubble. She stretched out on the infield of Nagai Stadium with a big white towel over her head, hiding from the television…
So the main start of this summer is over but this doesn’t mean that the sports life has stopped after the London Games, on the contrary athletes who shone at the Olympic stadium in the capital of Great Britain continue delighting their fans by taking victories at various international competitions.…
Russian pole vaulting star Elena Isinbayeva will continue to compete until the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, her coach said in an interview with R-Sport. After winning a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics, the 30-year-old athlete told Russian media that she wanted to compete in the next Olympics.…
