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Yelena Isinbayeva is the greatest female pole vaulter1 ever. She won the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Gold Medal and has twice been the IAAF’s Female Athlete of the Year. In 2005, she became the first woman to clear five metres and is the current world record holder2. Isinbayeva is also an avid3 reader of Russian history and a collector of dolphins – both model and real.
Isinbayeva was born in Volgograd, Russia in 1982. From the age of five, she trained as a gymnast. However, she quit the sport when she was 15 because at 1.74 metres she was too tall. She loved competition and switched to pole vaulting4. Her first big competition was the 1998 World Junior Championships, where she finished ten centimeters outside the medals.
Isinbayeva showed her true potential in 1999 at the World Youth Games in Poland. She cleared 4.10m to take her very first gold medal. She would improve by nearly one metre over the next decade. In 2000, she won gold again at the Youth Games and the European Junior Championships
In 2003, Yelena burst onto the world stage when she broke the world record, clearing 4.82m at a meeting in England. She built up an intense rivalry5 with her compatriot Svetlana Feofanova. Going into the 2004 Olympics, Feofanova was world record holder. Isinbayeva won gold and reclaimed6 the world record. She plans to compete until the World Championships in Moscow in 2013.
1 vaulter | |
n.撑竿跳运动员 | |
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2 holder | |
n.持有者,占有者;(台,架等)支持物 | |
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3 avid | |
adj.热心的;贪婪的;渴望的;劲头十足的 | |
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4 vaulting | |
n.(天花板或屋顶的)拱形结构 | |
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n.竞争,竞赛,对抗 | |
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6 reclaimed | |
adj.再生的;翻造的;收复的;回收的v.开拓( reclaim的过去式和过去分词 );要求收回;从废料中回收(有用的材料);挽救 | |
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