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IAAF World Indoor Championships Focus on High Jump, Pole Vault, Long Jump and Triple Jump
February 27, 2004

From press release

Budapest's Sportarena Prepares to "Jump to it!"
Monte-Carlo - Of the four athletes who have recently set World records indoors beginning the Athletics year on such a high note, two are women pole vaulters. Also remembering the record which was broken on the last day of the 2003 World Indoor Championships, this youthful discipline again offers the best prospect for more World record exploits to come at the 10th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, which will be held in the newly built Sportarena in Budapest, Hungary (5-7 March).

21 year-old Yelena Isinbayeva's two World records in Donetsk on Sunday 15 February 2004 - first at 4.81 and then at 4.83 - provided deserved recognition for this very special Pole Vault 'carnival' meet. Yet anyone who believed Russia's reigning World indoor and outdoor champion Svetlana Feofanova, 23, was just going to lie down meekly and let her World record be taken was way off the mark. Feofanova's response was immediate, as at their very next meeting in Athens last Sunday (22 Feb) she leapt to a new World mark of 4.85. It was a clinical response to her younger Russian opponent's audacity, a simple case of anything you can do, I can do better!

But don't let's forget the potential supporting cast in Budapest either, among which are the USA's Stacy Dragila (4.71), and Poland's Monika Pyrek (4.65 national record).

For the full story which includes the High Jump, Pole Vault, Long Jump and Triple Jump, go to www.iaaf.org.


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