英語名人堂：伊蓮娜·伊辛巴耶娃

　　伊蓮娜·伊辛巴耶娃(Yelena Isinbayeva)，1982年6月3日出生于前蘇聯(lián)伏爾加格勒。俄羅斯撐桿跳高運動員，女子撐桿跳世界紀錄保持者。

　　伊辛巴耶娃在2004年和2005年連續(xù)兩年被評選為國際田聯(lián)最佳女運動員，并且獲得勞倫斯最佳運動員獎。2005年7月22日，伊辛巴耶娃成為了第一個撐桿跳打破5米紀錄的女性運動員。2013年8月13日晚，在莫斯科田徑世錦賽中，伊辛巴耶娃以4米89的成績贏得金牌，完成了職業(yè)生涯的最后一跳。

　　伊蓮娜·伊辛巴耶娃是世界上最優(yōu)秀的女子撐桿跳選手，2003年打破世界紀錄后，一直保持著對女子撐桿跳的壟斷性統(tǒng)治，在職業(yè)生涯曾28次刷新室內(nèi)、室外世界紀錄，被稱為“穿裙子的布勃卡”[1] 。

　　2016年7月29日，伊辛巴耶娃無緣職業(yè)生涯最后一場里約奧運會，她也將宣布退役。

　　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 anavid reader of Russian history and a collector of dolphins – both model and real.

　　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.

　　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

　　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 andreclaimed the world record. She plans to compete until the World Championships in Moscow in 2013.