Elena Isinbaeva - a famous domestic athlete, Olympic champion, champion of Europe and the world. A pole vaulter has set 28 world records throughout her career. Its best result for open stadiums is 5.06 m. Nobody has managed to beat this record almost ten years ago to this day. How did the famous athlete begin her journey?
Rare nationality
Elena Isinbaeva was born in Volgograd on June 3, 1982 in a plumbing family and a working boiler room. Father is a native of Dagestan, his nationality is Tabasaran. Mother is Russian. The girl could become a Muslim, but still adopted Christianity.
The head of the family spent days at work to ensure a decent life for the household. The mother of the future champion in her youth played basketball, but did not become a professional athlete. Before the birth of children (Elena has a sister), Natalya Petrovna worked in a boiler room, and after that she was re-qualified as a housewife in order to pay more attention to girls.
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Carier start
Mom was quite strict with her daughters. The woman identified the sisters in the gymnastics section. Elena gave ten years to this discipline.
Isinbayeva studied at the special school of the Olympic reserve. But, despite the stubbornness and persistent nature of the young athlete, the coach considered that she could not succeed on the gymnastic platform, because Elena was much taller than her classmates.
A new stage in life
However, this did not break Isinbayev. She came into sports with a clear goal - to become a champion, and could not imagine her everyday life without competition. The first mentor of the girl advised her to try her hand at pole vault and did not lose. The second coach discerned talent and huge potential in Elena.
It was under the leadership of Yevgeny Trofimov that Isinbayev achieved overwhelming success as a pole vaulter and won more than one tournament.
