Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova (russian: Светлана Евгеньевна Феофанова; born 16 July 1980) is a Russian

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

er. Svetlana Feofanova was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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. She has studied at the

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. Feofanova was a

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in her youth but did not continue competing in the sport. In the

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, she was the second in 2001 and the first in 2003. She won also the World Indoor Championships in 2003, and she was the third in 2004. She finished fourth at the

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. On 4 July 2004 she pole vaulted in

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, which was a

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at the time. She won the silver medal in women's

ing at the

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(behind compatriot

Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva ( rus, Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə gɐˈdʐɨjɪvnə ɪsʲɪnˈbajɪvə; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 20 ...

). She won the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships gold medal for the pole vault in

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, at . She won the bronze in the

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Personal bests

*Pole Vault (outdoors) = , July 2004 — tenth on the all-time list *Pole Vault (indoors) = , February 2004 — ninth on the indoor all-time list

National titles

*6 times Russian National Outdoor Pole Vault Champion: 2001, '06, '07, '08, '11, '12 *4 times Russian National Indoor Pole Vault Champion: 2001, '06, '08, '10

International competitions

*NM = No Mark (no-height) *At both the 2000 and 2012 Olympics, Feofanova went out of the qualifying competition without clearing a height. In Sydney, she had three failures at , while in London she failed twice at and on her final attempt, failed at .

References

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Personal bests

National titles

International competitions

See also

References