Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Feofanova (Russian Светлана Евгеньевна Феофанова, English transcription Svetlana Feofanova; . * July 16, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian pole vaulter. She was 2003 World Champion and 2002 and 2010 European champion.
Life
She began her sport at 17. Previously, she was gymnast and was the reserve of the Russian Olympic teams of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Your first major international appearance was at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2001, when she won with 4.51 m silver behind the Czech Pavla Hamáčková. At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, it was during the competition to the great antagonist of the hitherto leading pole vaulter Stacy Dragila (USA). Ultimately, she won the silver medal in Edmonton.
In 2002, she won the title in both the European Indoor Championships in Vienna as well as outdoors at the European Championships in Munich. In March 2003, she won the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 4.80 m in front of her compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva, who crossed 4.60 m. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis, she won with 4.75 m the gold medal ahead of Annika Becker ( GER) and Isinbayeva.
The 2004 season went down in the history of the pole vault women as the season of her duel with her compatriot Isinbayeva. Mutually they drove from a world record height to the next. The grand finale of the season was held at the Olympic Games in Athens. As Isinbayeva had already at 4.70 m and 4.75 m failures, the way seemed free to the gold medal for Feofanowa. She had not a single failed attempt to 4.75 m. However, with the third try 4.80m burst of nodes for Isinbayeva. Feofanowa remained at 4.75 m and won the silver medal, while Isinbayeva still increased the world record to 4.91 m without further failed attempts.
Your personal best is 4.88 m. She achieved this height in 2004 in Heraklion, which meant a world record at that time. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki she could not participate and therefore unable to defend her title due to injury. At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006 she gave a successful comeback and won the bronze medal. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006, she finished fourth and was only the third best Russian. Gold won superior Isinbayeva, the Pole Monika Pyrek silver and bronze Tatjana Polnowa.
In the absence of Isinbayeva Svetlana Feofanowa won gold at the European Indoor Championships in 2007 in Birmingham. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she won with 4.75 m bronze behind Isinbayeva and Kateřina Baďurová (CZE ). At the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing her again succeeded in winning the bronze medal with a skipped height of 4.75 m behind Isinbayeva ( 5.05m - a world record ) and Jennifer Stuczynski ( USA) jumped 4.80 meters.
At the World Indoor Championships in 2010 Feofanowa won the silver medal. In Barcelona, she won in the same year at the European Championships with a height of 4.75 m by 2002, the second European Championship gold before the two German Silke Spiegelburg and Lisa Ryzih who mastered both 4.65 m.
In the final of the 2011 World Championships in Daegu she reached the third place and therefore the bronze medal. She was beaten by the world champion Fabiana Murer and the German Martina Strutz. Again, she managed a height of 4.75 m. So they won from 2001 to 2011 eight international medals and six of which have reached the height of 4.75 m. In London she pulled her at the 2012 Olympics in qualifying a triple broken foot to.
At a height of 1.64 m her competition weight is 52 kg.