Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva (born June 3, 1982) is a Russian pole vaulter. She is twice Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008 World Sportsman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009. Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2009. As a result of their achievements, many consider the greatest female pole vaulter of all time.
From age 5 to 15, Isinbayeva trained as a gymnast in her hometown of Volgograd. She finally left the sport because as growing up was considered too high to be competitive in gymnastics, ultimately reaching a height of 1.74 m (5 '8 ½ "). On July 22, 2005 became the first woman to clear the historical barrier of 5.00 meters in the pole vault.
His father, Gadzhi Gadzhiyevich Isinbayeva, is a plumber and a member of a small (130,000 people strong) ethnic group Tabasarans that mostly live in Dagestan. His mother, a shop assistant, is an ethnic Russian. Isinbayeva also has a sister called Inna. Isinbayeva came from humble beginnings and remember that their parents had to make many financial sacrifices in his early career.
She has a Bachelor and Master after graduating from the Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture. He continues his graduate studies there and also studied at the Donetsk National Technical University.
At the age of 27 Isinbayeva has been a nine-time champion (Olympic, world champion outdoors and indoors and covered outdoor European champion).
Current records Isinbayeva world 5. 06 m outdoors, a record Isinbayeva set in Zurich on August 28, 2009, and 5.00 m indoors, a record set at the Donetsk indoor meeting on February 15, 2009. The first was the twenty-seventh world record of Isinbayeva.
Setting 27 world records (15 outdoor and indoor 12), remaining practically undefeated between 2004 and 2009 (winner of nine consecutive gold medals in the championships indoors and outdoors) and World Athletics elected Athlete of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2008, Isinbayeva has established herself as one of the most successful athletes of his generation.
In August 2005, top UK pole vault coach Steve Rippon, told the BBC that "it [Isinbayeva] is one of the few jumpers polo women look and think that his technique is as good as men. In fact, the second part of her jump is probably better than any male pole vaulter currently competing. She has an exceptional technique, it is quite high (almost 5 feet 9 inches) and runs very well. "
These statements are confirmed by close observation of her jumps, in detail, Isinbayeva's high level of body control (courtesy of her gymnastics background) especially pays off in the so-called "L-Phase", where essential to use post rebound to convert horizontal speed into height. Common mistakes are getting away recovered at an angle (instead of vertically up) or the inability to keep the limbs rigid, thus resulting in loss of vertical velocity and the height is much less. For Isinbayeva, the L-Phase is exemplary.
In the Russian club competitions representing railroad military team, which is formally a Russian military officer, and August 4, 2005 was given high military rank of lieutenant before being promoted to captain in August 2008.
She features in Toshiba ads promoting their product line in Russia. She also appears in a Lady Speed Stick ad in Russia.
On December 2, 2010 was held a passionate speech to the delegates of FIFA in Zurich. Later on that occasion it was announced that Russia will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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Leryn Dahiana Franco Steneri is a Paraguayan athlete who specializes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 55.38 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Fortaleza.
Born in Paraguay (born 1 March 1982 in Asuncion) of Uruguayan parentage she broke the national records for the under 17 year age group in 1998 for both the javelin and triple jump. After winning bronze medals in 1999 and 2000 Franco won the South American Junior Championship javelin title in 2001. Franco was South American under 23 champion in 2004.
Her performances at world level are 24th in the 2003 World Championship and 42nd out of 45 at the Athens Olympics. Although she set her personal best in 2007 she finished 12th (last) at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, she competed in the Beijing Olympics.
She combines her athletic endeavours with a career as a model and beauty pageant contestant. In 2006, she was runner-up Miss Universo Paraguay 2006. She participated at the Miss Bikini Universe pageant and also has her own calendar, which was shot in 2007 by Martin Crespo. She placed #86 in AskMen.com's 2009 "Top 99 Women" poll.
On 14 December 2009, Bleacher Report, a website that provides news and fans opinions of sporting events and self-described world’s leading publisher of original and entertaining sports editorial content, ranked her as No. 6 in its list of "The 40 Hottest Female Athletes Of The Decade" On 23 August 2010, Bleacher Report upgraded Leryn Franco to No. 1 in its list of "The 100 Hottest Athletes Of All Time"
Allison Stokke (Born March 22, 1989 Newport Beach, California) is a pole vaulter. She doesn’t have any major sport achievements to date, but she became immensely popular on the Internet after a big website featured her pictures.
Jenny Adams (born 8 July 1978 in Tomball, Texas, United States) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles.
At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, she achieved her personal best time (12.63 seconds) and competed in the long jump as well. Her personal best in that event is 6.64 metres. Source Wikipedia.org
Tatiana Grigorieva (Born October 8, 1975 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a retired Australian pole vaulter. She retired from the sport in 2007 after a 10 year career that saw her win Olympic, Commonwealth and World Championship medals. She went on to star in series six of Dancing with the Stars and as Olympia on the 2008 revival of Gladiators. As a former national level hurdler in Russia, Tatiana took up pole vaulting when she migrated to Australia in 1997. Within 12 months of picking up a pole, she became one of the world's best, placing third in the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. In her first appearance at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics she won the bronze medal. At her first Commonwealth Games in 2002, she went into the competition as the overwhelming favourite with enormous pressure on her, Tatiana's goal was to win gold and set a new Games Record — she achieved both. Since 2000 Tatiana has appeared in numerous television programs and ad campaigns and magazines and has graced a number of magazines covers including from Inside Sport and Black+White to GQ in Italy and Esquire in the UK.
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Kristi Leskinen (born February 10, 1981 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania) is an American freestyle skier. She appeared on the cover of Powder magazine's Photo Annual in 2004.
She grew up in Uniontown, PA, near Seven Springs Mountain Resort and Hidden Valley ski resorts. She was ranked #90 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2005. At Winter X Games IX, Leskinen won a bronze medal in the Women's Superpipe.
Kristi was the first woman ever to pull a rodeo 720—two rotations, head pointed to the earth. She had a choice to become a pro wakeboarder but she decided to become professional at freestyle skiing.
She began to receive sponsors for skiing and instantly knew that skiing was what she wanted to do. Leskinen is a devout fan of the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
Mary Sauer-Vincent (born 31 October 1975 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American pole vaulter. Her personal best jump is 4.65 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Madrid.
In June 2001 Sauer became the third American woman ever to break the 15-foot barrier by vaulting 4.61 metres in Irvine, California. A five-time All-American in the triple jump and high jump at Azusa Pacific University, Sauer did not begin pole vaulting till after she graduated in 1997.
At the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials, she just missed making the U.S. Olympic team after vaulting 4.33 metres.
Amy Lyn Acuff (born July 14, 1975, Port Arthur, Texas) is a track and field athlete from the United States. A high jump specialist, she competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field.
Her best Olympic performance came at the 2004 Games, where her jump of 1.99 m earned her fourth place in the final.
She established herself domestically with wins at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1995 and 1997. At the age of 22, she became the Universiade champion, edging out Monica Iagăr in the 1997 high jump final.
Acuff was the winner of the 1998 Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in Arnstadt, Germany, becoming the first non-European winner in the history of the event. She went on to win at the national championships in 2001, 2003, and 2005.
Acuff is also known for her career as a model. She organized the 2000 Omni Lite Millennium Calendar of Champions, featuring nude (or semi-nude) photos of Acuff and 11 other U.S. female track and field stars, with half the proceeds going to the Florence Griffith-Joyner Foundation.
Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a girl from France. She is a track and field sprint athlete and many consider her the fastest legal runner of all time. She has run the fourth fastest time for the 100 metres in history, and holds the European record of 10.73 seconds.
Olympic Games Bronze 2004 Athens 4x100 m relay World Championships Gold 2003 Paris 4x100 m relay Silver 1999 Seville 4x100 m relay Bronze 1997 Athens 4x100 m relay Bronze 2005 Helsinki 100 m Bronze 2005 Helsinki 200 m
EAA European Championships Gold 1998 Budapest 100 metres Gold 1998 Budapest 4x100 m relay
