(CNN)-- 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. Every time the world and Olympic champion ...

Duplantis entered Paris having cleared 6.10m or higher 20 times. Who is the best female pole vaulter ever? Yelena Isinbayeva is the women's pole vault world record-holder at 5.06m (16 feet, 7 inches) ...

Russian pole-vaulting legend Yelena Isinbayeva is in Rio for this year’s Olympics, but she isn’t competing: Russia’s entire track and field team was banned from the Games over the a massive ...

Russia’s two-time Olympic champion in pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva has been appointed to take charge of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), according to Wednesday ...

Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva is considered the G.O.A.T. when it comes to the women who’ve competed in the sport, as she holds the Olympic record with the 5.05m jump she used to secure ...

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MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva said on Thursday she intended to turn to courts of various instances to prove that she had been illegally barred from the 2016 ...

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was asked at the press conference earlier for his thoughts on claims by fellow IOC ...

Newman had never medalled on the world or Olympic stage, but she reset her national record to 4.85 metres in Paris to become ...

When Erica Fraley first started pole vaulting, her high school coach was worried she wouldn’t be able to succeed. Fraley had ...

I am supposed to be this incredible textbook pole vaulter." Newman now has motivation beyond just winning medals; she ...