Russian lady who was unbeaten in pole vault for two Olympic cycles. I’m talking about the legendary woman who was named the athlete of the year several times during her splendid career. And this athlete is none other than the double Olympic champion and...

The 23rd XL-Galan to be held on Thursday evening 23 February will fit very well into that tradition with names as Kirani James, Anna Chicherova, Adam Kzczot and Yelena Isinbayeva topping the impressive bill at the final IAAF Indoor Permit meeting of 2012.

The truth will out early this Friday morning with the starter's gun sending the field of almost 3,000 off shortly after sunrise. Organizers are informing in a release. STOCKHOLM (SWE): More top names for XL-galan indoor meet in Stockholm (IAAF Indoor...

Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva set the third-best jump of the season of 4.81 meters to clinch her third title of the year, in Lievin, France. The Russian dominated Tuesday's meet, finishing 10 centimeters ahead of Cuba's Yarisley Silva,...

Clarke finished with a world-leading 6.50 seconds, shaving 0.02 off the time he set last weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. Lemaitre, the European sprint champion, had a typical slow start and finished in 6.57. Jamaica's Mickael Frater was third in 6.62. ...

This time, it also proved successful for Polish athletes, who won two out of the programme’s three events. Tomasz Majewski was the top shot putter with 21.05m and Lukasz Michalski took the men’s Pole Vault with 5.72m. The women’s vault ended with a...

Now, she is the focus of GBR media as her performance has opened some real eyes! On February 4, Jenn Suhr, breaks AR in Boston, MA with 4.88 m or sixteen feet event. Now, Jenn Suhr is number one for 2012, and Holly Bleasdale is number two. On the all...

Balance Indoor Games. Suhr a week after failing to register a clearance at the U.S. Open meet in New York added two centimeters to the mark she achieved in Albuquerque last year, the performance also taking her to the top of the 2012 World rankings and...

After a few years of inconsistency after her silver medal at the 2008 Olympics, Jenn Suhr looks to be back on her game clearing an American record of 4.88 meters, 16 feet even. The clearance put her in an elite category as just the second woman behind...

Feofanova responded the following week by breaking the record by a centimetre in Heraklion, Greece. On 25 July in Birmingham it was announced that Russia will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Yelena Isinbayeva is now a member of the ‘Champions for No...

Vault preparations at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham, the penultimate IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting, on Saturday 18 February. The 20-year-old Pole Vault prodigy, who cleared 4.87m at a meet in Villeurbanne, France, last month to move to No. 2 on the...

In Boston, Mo Farah runs in an indoor mile race. Sunday Dwain Chambers has his first outing of 2012: the 60m at the Russian Winter Meeting in Moscow. Thursday Pole-vaulter Holly Bleasdale meets Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva at Bydgoszcz in Poland.

Feofanova responded the following week by breaking the record by a centimetre in Heraklion, Greece. On 25 July in Birmingham it was announced that Russia will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Yelena Isinbayeva is now a member of the ‘Champions for No...

The chances are that Bleasdale's ascent remains a long way short of its limit. Her British record vault in Lyon was 17cm higher than Yelena Isinbayeva managed in Volgograd on the same day. The 29-year-old Russian is now the only female vaulter who has...

Isinbayeva, the long-time pole vault queen, was in action in Volgograd on Saturday, preparing for the defence of her Olympic crown. She must be worried. A rising young British star is threatening to dethrone her. Competing in Lyon on Saturday, Holly...

Only world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva has ever gone higher indoors with a clearance of 5.00m — a height the Blackburn athlete tried to trump in France before failing at 5.01m. Isinbayeva opened her season in Volgograd on Saturday with a best of...

"First it was all the Americans and what height they had jumped," the Riga resident says. "Then I started through a world list. And every time I jumped higher, I crossed off that name." Suhr's list is down to one: Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, the...

The 20-year-old leapt to 4.87 metres at a meeting in Lyon with only world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva (5.00m) having gone higher indoors in the history of the sport. The British girl had already cleared 4.71m last month, but on Saturday she...

Russia – The Governor’s Cup in Volgograd is one of the most popular annual track and field tournaments of the Russian indoor season. At today’s edition the focus of public’s attention was the Pole Vault runway and landing area. A lot of fans of Yelena...