英语名人堂：伊莲娜·伊辛巴耶娃
伊辛巴耶娃在2004年和2005年连续两年被评选为国际田联最佳女运动员，并且获得劳伦斯最佳运动员奖。2005年7月22日，伊辛巴耶娃成为了第一个撑杆跳打破5米纪录的女性运动员。2013年8月13日晚，在莫斯科田径世锦赛中，伊辛巴耶娃以4米89的成绩赢得金牌，完成了职业生涯的最后一跳。
伊莲娜·伊辛巴耶娃是世界上最优秀的女子撑杆跳选手，2003年打破世界纪录后，一直保持着对女子撑杆跳的垄断性统治，在职业生涯曾28次刷新室内、室外世界纪录，被称为“穿裙子的布勃卡”[1] 。
2016年7月29日，伊辛巴耶娃无缘职业生涯最后一场里约奥运会，她也将宣布退役。
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.
