Yelena Isinbayeva is the greatest female pole vaulter 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 holder. Isinbayeva is also an avid reader of Russian history and a collector of dolphins,both model and real.
伊蓮娜·伊辛巴耶娃是歷史上最偉大的撐桿跳運動員。她獲得了2004年,2008年奧運會冠軍,并12次獲得國際田徑聯(lián)合會年度女運動員稱號。2005年,她成為首位跳過5米的運動員,并保持著世界記錄。伊辛巴耶娃還熱衷于閱讀俄羅斯歷史,她還喜歡收集海豚模型,更喜歡真海豚。
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 vaulting. Her first big competition was the 1998 World Junior Championships, where she finished ten centimeters outside the medals.
1982年,伊辛巴耶娃出生于俄羅斯的伏爾加格勒。她從5歲時開始練習(xí)體操。由于她當(dāng)時1米74的身高,15歲那年,她放棄了體操。她喜歡競賽,并轉(zhuǎn)入撐桿跳項目。她的首次世界大賽是1982年的世界青年錦標賽,她以10厘米的劣勢無緣獎牌。
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
1999年,在波蘭舉行的世界青年運動會,伊辛巴耶娃展現(xiàn)了她的潛能。她以4米10的成績獲得金牌。在未來的10年里,她將成績提高了將近1米。2000年,她又一次在青年運動會,以及歐洲青年錦標賽上奪金。
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 rivalry with her compatriot Svetlana Feofanova. Going into the 2004 Olympics, Feofanova was world record holder. Isinbayeva won gold and reclaimed the world record. She plans to compete until the World Championships in Moscow in 2013.
2003年,她在英國舉行的大獎賽上以4米82的成績打破世界紀錄,而這也讓她站上了世界舞臺。她的最大競爭對手是同胞斯維特蘭娜·菲奧法諾娃。2004年,菲奧法諾娃打破了世界紀錄。之后,伊辛巴耶娃再次獲得冠軍,并再次打破世界紀錄。她計劃在2013年莫斯科田徑世錦賽之后退役。
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