Isinbayeva's Records

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On May 5, under the topic "Isinbayeva vows return by 2011," rainbow girl posted:

“Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, who decided last month to take an indefinite break from athletics, has not ruled out competing again this year but definitely plans to return by 2011. The 27-time world record holder failed to win a medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha in March.”

When I checked my file of women's world records, I found only 20 for Isinbayeva. After quite a lot of cross-checking of my files of Russian indoor records, world outdoor progression and world indoor progression, I think that the differences were that I had missed one of her world records and that six records that apparently had been regarded as "world records" in the 27 should been considered as world outdoor bests, but not world records. As of January 1, 2001, "world records" were only the highest performances at the given date, regardless of whether they were accomplished indoors or outdoors.

With that explanation, here is my current list of Isinbayeva's 21 world records and 6 world indoor bests. I hope that if you find any errors in this, you'll bring them to my attention.

4.82* 7/13/03 Gateshead
4.81 WIB 2/15/04 Donetsk
4.83i* 2/15/04 Donetsk
4.86i* 3/06/04 Budapest
4.87* 6/27/04 Gateshead
4.89* 7/25/04 Birmingham
4.90* 7/30/04 London
4.91* 8/24/04 Athina
4.92* 9/03/04 Bruxelles
4.87i* 2/12/05 Donetsk
4.88i* 2/18/05 Birmingham
4.89i* 2/26/05 Lievin
4.90i* 3/06/05 Madrid
4.93* 7/05/05 Lausanne
4.95* 7/16/05 Madrid
4.96* 7/22/05 London
5.00* 7/22/05 London
5.01* 8/12/05 Helsinki
4.91i WIB 2/12/06 Donetsk
4.93i WIB 2/10/07 Donetsk
4.95i WIB 2/16/08 Donetsk
5.03* 7/11/08 Rome
5.04* 7/29/08 Monaco
5.05* 8/18/08 Beijing
4.97i en WIB 2/15/09 Donetsk
5.00i WIB 2/15/09 Donetsk
5.06* 8/28/09 Zurich