Russia's pole vault queen, Yelena Isinbayeva, won her first major outdoor title in five years on August 13, capturing a fairy-tale world championship title on... 14.08.2013, Sputnik International
Russia's pole vault queen, Yelena Isinbayeva, won her first major outdoor title in five years on August 13, capturing a fairy-tale world championship title on home soil in Moscow.
Russia's pole vault queen, Yelena Isinbayeva, won her first major outdoor title in five years on August 13, capturing a fairy-tale world championship title on home soil in Moscow.
Russia's pole vault queen, Yelena Isinbayeva, won her first major outdoor title in five years on August 13, capturing a fairy-tale world championship title on home soil in Moscow.
Isinbayeva, 31, smashed her season's best by 11 centimeters with a winning jump of 4.89 meters that elicited a deafening roar from a packed Luzhniki arena, leaving Olympic champion Jennifer Suhr with the silver after the American's best effort of 4.82.
"It's time for a time-out," Isinbayeva told Russian state television after taking her third world title. "But I want to try to come back for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics."
This in itself was already an improbable comeback: Isinbayeva had quit in 2010 after a series of poor performances only to return after rejoining her childhood coach, Evgeny Trofimov.
Now her goal is to eclipse that with a third Olympic gold in Rio at the age of 34 – all after starting a family.
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