Athlete Isinbaeva biography

Search Isinbaeva Elena Gadzhievna Two -time Olympic champion, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, three -time opening world champion, four -time world champion in the room, European champion in the room and indoors, winner of 30 world records in women's jumps, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Member of the International Olympic Committee, Cavalier of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree, candidate of pedagogical sciences, an honorary citizen of the cities of Donetsk and Derbent Isinbaev for many years - the prima of Russian and world athletics.

When Isinbaeva performs-this is the expectation of a holiday, a record, something bright, unusual. But my gaze is not an outsider. And the point here is not only in her magnificent records, not beaten by anyone, but in her unique personality, in the harmony, who is the sister of fear and horror, ”wrote Yunna Moritz about Elena. The illustrated biography from the book “Who is Who is in Modern Russia” was born on June 3 in Volgograd.

Father - Isinbaev Gadzhi Gasanovich G. Mother - Isinbaeva Natalya Petrovna G. Putin - Petinov Nikita Olegovich G. Daughter - Eva G. Parents of Elena - representatives of working professions. Father originally from the village of Chuceu, that under the derbent of Dagestan is a plumber. Mother is a hereditary Cossack, was born on the Ko justing farm of the Uryupinsky district.

She worked for 25 years in heating networks, after retirement - a housewife. The Isinbaev family has always loved sport, the mother in her youth was engaged in skiing and basketball, father - struggle and boxing. From childhood, Lena wanted to engage in rhythmic gymnastics. She liked this graceful, beautiful sport. And she also dreamed of a big tennis. But fate ordered differently.

When Lena was 5 years old, and at first her younger sister, G. Lena, first did not want to take the group at all, since she was taller than all girls, and the coaches said that she had no prospects in this sport. Then her parents asked to allow her to train simply for general physical development. With this, the sports career of Elena and Inna Isinbaevs began. At first, the sisters did not dream of any achievements, but the results gradually began to grow, and they began to treat sports not as a hobby, but as a serious occupation.

At the age of 7-11, the sisters of Isinbaev won all children's competitions, regional championships and match meetings in their age group. Evidence of their sporting success was the inclusion of the regional team. In sports gymnastics, Elena especially liked the bars and free exercises. In Grace, she had no equal! She wanted to get into the Russian national team, perform at major international competitions.

In the year, she was awarded the title of master of sports. Inna also received a certificate of master of sports later she completed her sports career, worked as a fitness coach. However, after the 9th grade, she was expelled from the school "for lack of results in gymnastics." Elena went to a regular school, but it was extremely difficult to combine training and performances at various tournaments with study at an unsportsmanlike school.

Gradually, the results in gymnastics were falling, in addition, she continued to grow, and she had a fear of performing some elements, which, according to the athlete herself, is a signal for the completion of a sports career. Elena did not imagine life outside the sport. But Elena, who knew the word “necessary” since childhood, decided not to give up.

In November, she was offered to try her strength in athletics. Perennial exercises gymnastics gave her good physical preparation and strength of the hands, so the choice fell on jumping with the sixth. On the recommendation of A. Lisovoy, Elena came to Evgeny Vasilievich Trofimov. Until that moment, the existence of jumps with a sixth among women and men, too, she did not know anything.

The first thing that struck her when she was in the arena was the height of the racks and the bar installed on them. To the question of the new mentor: “Lenochka, do you know the Bubka? Elena fell in love with a new sport, training, a new team. Trofimov took her first for a two -week period to make sure that a new pupil was promising - because only boys trained before Elena.

Isinbaeva withstand the test with honor, and she was taken to the group. Evgeny Vasilievich recalls: “Literally in the first training session, I saw that it was a talent, and, most importantly, she felt like a completely not demanded in sports, and she had such glazes after each training: well, how did I come up or not? This meeting was the first. Even then, I saw that she could jump 5 meters.

" Elena had an amazing performing discipline, everything that the coach said, she neatly entered the diary, was a diligent student, quickly grabbed new exercises with a pole, mastered and improved the technique of jumping and running away. In addition, sports gymnastics gave her wonderful basic training. Starting with a two -meter mark in the first training, Elena quickly improved her results.

Then E.Trofimov recommended it to the School of the Olympic Reserve, where there was a very tough competitive selection. Only the prize -winners of the championship and championship of Russia were accepted there. The results of Elena at the competition were stunningly brilliant and in the year she re -entered the school of the Olympic reserve as a high hopes with a pole.

In January, Elena went to the first championship of Russia among girls under the age of 15 and won 2nd place with a result of 3.50 m, setting her personal record. In May, she won the Russian summer championship in the same age group, and in June she entered the Russian team and first declared herself loudly, winning in the sixth youthful games in Moscow with a result of 4.00 m. This victory opened her doors to a big sport.

In the year, Elena Isinbaeva was awarded a certificate of an international class sports master. Since then, the countdown of her brilliant career began. In the summer of the year, Elena Isinbaeva won the World Cup among girls in Poland with a result of 4.05 m. In the year, the discipline “Sixth among women” was included in the Olympic program, and this opened up new horizons for future victories athletes with a pole.

In the same year, Elena became the “winter” champion of Russia among adults, setting a new “winter” record of Russia 4.45 m, took 8th place at the European Winter Championship in Belgium. In the summer at the age of 18, she becomes a member of the Olympic Games in Sydney, but does not go through qualifications. After Sydney, Elena Isinbaeva won the world championship among juniors with a result of 4.20 m.

In the year, she took 7th place at the Winter World Cup in Lisbon among adults 4.35 m, won the Junior European Championship in Grosseso 4.40 m. The next year, Elena Isinbaeva became a silver medalist Munich 4.55 m. A complete surprise for many athletics lovers was the world record of Elena Isinbaeva, which she installed in the summer of the year at the Grand Prix series in the English city of Gateshead.

Her flight through the bar installed at an altitude of 4.82 m was regarded as sensational. The fact that the previous record would be beaten was no doubt, but, according to experts, it was supposed to do either the Russian woman Svetlana Feofanova, the “winter” record holder of the world, or the former “summer” record holder, American Staisi, a duel between which the fans have been kept in the tension of the past 2 years.

In training, Elena has repeatedly tried on this height. Before the starts in the UK at international competitions, she once tried to take her, but unsuccessfully. And finally her dream came true. In the summer of the year, Elena Isinbaeva began to set the tone in jumping with a pole among the strongest jumping of the planet. In the winter season, she immediately set three world records in a sixth jump in closed rooms: two in Donetsk 4.81 and 4.83 m and won the world record of 4.86 m at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest.

In the spring, she was awarded the annual National Sports Prize "Glory" in the nomination "Opening of the Year". Having set in the summer one after another 3 more world records 4.87; 4,89; 4.90 m, Elena Isinbaeva won her main thing - Olympic - “Gold” in Athens, while setting a new world record of 4.91 m. The enchanting performance of Isinbaeva in Athens, without exaggeration, conquered the whole world, the unpredictability of the struggle in the sector with a poisonous of the heart was monitored even by those who were before that far from that far from sports.

So in the eyes of 50 thousand fans present at the Athenian stadium, and millions of viewers were the birth of Elena as another Olympic legend. After the Olympiad at competitions in Brussels, Elena set another one-the 8th in a row that year-the world record of 4.92 m and was recognized as the best athlete of the world and Europe. In the year, she was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

In November, at a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin in the Kremlin, where the Champions and winners of the Athenian Olympiad was honored, Elena Isinbaeva was given the honor to speak with a response to the president’s speech. Elena’s success in Athens with great joy was perceived in the homeland of her father - in Dagestan, she was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the city of Derbent.

In the year in Lausanne, the tournament of the Super Grand Prix of Athletissima took place. Isinbaeva was one of the last, the height of the championship was at a mark of 4.6 m, taken by the American Steisi Drazhil. Elena has a warm -up altitude - 4.7 m, the victorious - 4.93 m was taken flawlessly, becoming another record of Isinbaeva. A few minutes before the capture of this line, she also set a world record-she submitted to a height of 4.96 m.

Elena raised a record bar at once by 5 centimeters in order to reign as soon as possible on a 5-meter jump of Olympus. After the triumph, in an interview, Isinbaeva said that 5 meters for her is the norm and an optimal training line. And that the records set by her are planned.The gradual conquest of new heights brings more glory and makes it possible to popularize your sport around the world.

In the year, Elena Isinbaeva graduated from the Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture, receiving a diploma of a physical culture teacher. After 8 years of joint work with a personal mentor and coach E. Trofimov, after brilliant performances at the Olympic Games, after the victorious personal 18 world records, Elena Isinbaeva leaves to live and train in Monaco.

She will spend a significant part of her sports career in Monaco, where she was more comfortable to prepare for competitions. During joint training, Bubka himself advised Isinbaev. Two outstanding athletes participated in the tournament "Sixth Stars" in Donetsk. At this tournament, the star of world athletics Isinbaeva invariably came from the year and set 5 world records for closed rooms,,,,,,,,,