Elena Isinbayeva is the best female pole vaulter in the world, having broken indoor and outdoor pole vault records 28 times, but the empress has been practicing gymnastics during her 5-15 years old, when she herself said that her idol is China's Li Ning! Later, he became taller and taller, and he was no longer suitable for gymnastics, so he changed to practice high jump, and he did not expect to create a legend later!
From 2005 to 2010, Isinbayeva broke the world record repeatedly, from the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Competition in Madrid, Spain to win the new world record of 4 meters 90, until the 2010 Moscow Winter Indoor Athletics, Isinbayeva easily won the championship with the best time of the season 4 meters 85, these five years, she has been constantly refreshing various records.
From 2011 to 2013, these two years belonged to Isinbayeva, she opened the crushing mode like a hanging, in these two years she won almost all the grand prizes she could win, and in the 2009 IAAF Golden League in Zurich, she jumped the world record of 5 meters 06, becoming the world's first high jumper to break the 5 meters mark.
On July 29, 2016, Isinbayeva missed the last Rio Olympics of her career. On August 20, Isinbayeva officially announced her retirement. A generation of legends has come to an end.