Yelena Isinbayeva
Bio:
Born June 3, 1982, Yelena Isinbaeva is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2004 and 2008) and she was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009.
She became the first woman to clear the historic 5.00 metre barrier in the pole vault on July 25, 2005.
Isinbaeva’s current world records are 5.05 m outdoors, a record she set at the Summer Olympics Games in Beijing on 18 August 2008, and 5.00 m indoors, a record set at the Donetsk indoor meeting on February 15, 2009.