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.
伊莲娜·伊辛巴耶娃是历史上最伟大的撑杆跳运动员。她获得了2004年，2008年奥运会冠军，并12次获得国际田径联合会年度女运动员称号。2005年，她成为首位跳过5米的运动员，并保持着世界记录。伊辛巴耶娃还热衷于阅读俄罗斯历史，她还喜欢收集海豚模型，更喜欢真海豚。
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罗斯的伏尔加格勒。她从5岁时开始练习体操。由于她当时1米74的身高，15岁那年，她放弃了体操。她喜欢竞赛，并转入撑杆跳项目。她的首次世界大赛是1982年的世界青年锦标赛，她以10厘米的劣势无缘奖牌。
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，在波兰举行的世界青年运动会，伊辛巴耶娃展现了她的潜能。她以4米10的成绩获得金牌。在未来的10年里，她将成绩提高了将近1米。2000年，她又一次在青年运动会，以及欧洲青年锦标赛上夺金。
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，她在英国举行的大奖赛上以4米82的成绩打破世界纪录，而这也让她站上了世界舞台。她的最大竞争对手是同胞斯维特兰娜·菲奥法诺娃。2004年，菲奥法诺娃打破了世界纪录。之后，伊辛巴耶娃再次获得冠军，并再次打破世界纪录。她计划在2013年莫斯科田径世锦赛之后退役。
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