13:50 31.01.2008 – Light Athletics
Yelena Isinbaeva will appear at the "Pole Vault Stars" tournament in Donetsk
On February 16th in Donetsk, at the Friendship sports palace under the auspices of Sergey Bubka’s sports club, the XIX international "ZEPTER – Pole Vault Stars" tournament takes place. 13 participants will appear in the women’s tournament headed by the European, World and Olympic Games champion, world record holder Yelena Isinbaeva; in the men’s – 17. Sergey Bubka, International Olympic Committee member, First Vice President of the International Association of Athletics Federations, President of the Ukrainian national Olympic committee, Olympic champion and reigning world record holder in the pole vault, granted the complete lists of athletes to the Agency of Sport Information "All Sport".
Included among the 30 participants in the 19th international "ZEPTER – Pole Vault Stars" tournament are six Russians. Besides Yelena Isinbaeva are Tatiana Polnova, Yulia Golubchikova, Igor Pavlov, Yevgeny Lukyanenko and Pavel Gerasimov.
ZEPTER – Pole Vault Stars-2008 Participants:
Women. Yelena Isinbaeva, Tatiana Polnova, Yulia Golubchikova (Russia), Monica Pyrek, Anna Rogowska (Poland), Katerina Badurová (Czech Rep.), Fabiana Murer (Brazil), Carolin Hingst, Silke Spiegelburg, Julia Hütter (Germany), Chelsea Johnson (USA), Natalya Kushch (Ukraine), Katarina Larsasen (Norway).
Men. Timothy Mack, Derek Miles, Russ Buller, Toby Stevenson (USA), Giovanni Lanaro (Mexico), Spas Bukhalov (Bulgaria), Igor Pavlov, Yevgeny Lukyanenko, Pavel Gerasimov (Russia), Aleksandr Averbukh (Israel), Fabio Gomez da Silva (Brazil), Maxsym Mazuryk (Ukraine), Przemyslaw Czerwinski (Poland), Alhaji Jeng, Jesper Fritts (Sweden), Germán Chiaraviglio (Argentina).
No Aussies? None of the German guys?
