Pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva has announced that she is taking a break from athletics following her poor performance at last month's world indoor championships in Qatar.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and U.S. star Sanya Richards will be competing for a $1 million jackpot in the final Golden League meeting of the season in Brussels on Friday.
Sprint king Usain Bolt overcame a slow start to beat fellow-Jamaican Asafa Powell in the 100 meters at the Golden League meeting in Zurich, while Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva banished her Berlin World Championships blues by setting a new world record of 5.06 metres.
BERLIN -- On a night when Jamaica's women's speedsters confirmed the country's sprinting preeminence at the world championships in Berlin, the top female athlete in track and field was a stunning disappointment. Shelly-Ann Fraser and Kerron Stewart went one-two in the women's 100 meters on Monday, leaving no doubt as to which country has the world's fastest humans just 24 hours after Usain Bolt decimated the world record in the men's hundred. On the same track, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, the sport's female athlete of the year in three of the past five years, no-heighted, allowing Poland's Anna Rogowska to capture a surprise gold medal and U.S. vaulter Chelsea Johnson to sneak in for a silver.
There are few sports that are so dominated by a single person like the way the women's pole vault is ruled by 26-year Russian Yelena Isinbayeva.
BEIJING -- Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva had gotten up from what looked like a cat nap to find out that she just won the gold medal in the pole vault.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva has broken her own world record in the women's pole vault with a leap of 5.04 meters as she warmed up for her Olympic defense.
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele broke the two-mile world record at an international indoor meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.
Russia's pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva easily retained her world title but was unable to break her own world record on Tuesday.
Tennis number one Roger Federer was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the third year in a row on Monday.
Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set a world best for the indoor 2,000 meters of four minutes, 49.99 seconds at the Norwich Union Grand Prix on Saturday, beating a nine-year-old mark of Haile Gebrselassie.
Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own indoor world record in the women's pole vault in Donetsk on Saturday, clearing 4.93 meters at the "Pole Vault Stars" event.
American Tyson Gay further underlined his growing reputation when he ran another sub-10 second race to win the men's 100 meters at the World Cup.
Tyson Gay equaled the third fastest time ever run in the 200 meters to clinch victory in 19.68 seconds on the closing day of the world athletics final on Sunday.
Gothenburg's favourite son Christian Olsson and Russian Yelena Isinbayeva lit up another damp day at the Ullevi stadium, where they demolished the opposition at the European championships on Saturday.
Russian athletes delighted the home crowd in Moscow at the world indoor championships with a hat-trick of gold medals on Saturday.
Olympic and world pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva opened her competitive year with a 19th world record in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva has split with her coach of eight years Yevgeny Trofimov.
Olympic champion Liu Xiang swept to victory in the 110 meters hurdles in front of his home crowd at the Shanghai Grand Prix.
Olimpiada Ivanova of Russia set the first world record of the world athletics championships in Helsinki on Sunday, clinching the US$160,000 bonus available as she won the 20-kilometer walk.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva set athletics history as she became the first woman to pole vault five meters - breaking her own world record at the London Grand Prix on Friday night.
Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia broke the women's pole vault world record for the second time in 11 days when she cleared 4.95 meters at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting.
Yelena Isinbayeva beat her own world record to clinch the Olympic women's pole vault gold on Tuesday coming one step closer to matching the feats of her idol, Sergei Bubka.
Joanna Hayes of the U.S. stamped her authority on a chaotic Olympic 100 meters hurdles when she blazed to the gold medal in a Games record 12.37 seconds on Tuesday.
Jamaican Asafa Powell handed Olympic 100 meters champion Maurice Greene his second defeat in eight days with an emphatic victory at the London grand prix.
Russian Yelena Isinbayeva broke the women's world pole vault record in Britain for the second time this season and the third time in total with a clearance of 4.89 meters on Sunday at an international meeting in Birmingham.
Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia broke her own women's world pole vault record at a Grand Prix meeting in Gateshead, England on Sunday.
Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva took the world indoor triple jump title in style by equalling and then twice breaking the world record in Budapest on Saturday.
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