Yelena Isinbayeva
shrugged off five years of disappointments in global competition to
return to the top of the podium, roared on by partisan home support in
the Luzhniki Stadium.
Not even Usain Bolt and
his 100m heroics could capture the imagination as surely as Isinbayeva,
the four-day old championships, marked by sparse attendances, finally
springing fully to life.
The noise reached a fever
pitch when the 31-year-old successfully cleared 4.89m while America's
2012 Olympic champion Jennifer Suhr and Cuban Yarisley Silva both failed
at that height. Suhr claimed the silver at 4.82m on count back.
Read: Bolt reclaims world 100m title
But all eyes were left on
Isinbayeva, who made three unsuccessful attempts to break her own world
record of 5.06m. It was her third world championship title in the
discipline.
She had dominated the
event with Olympic golds in Athens 2004 and the 2008 Games in Beijing,
setting 28 world records indoor and outdoor.
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