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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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