Yelena Isinbayeva

Bolt, Isinbayeva up for athlete of the year award

Sify (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.

Bolt, Isinbayeva up for IAAF's athlete of the year

SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) -- Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.

• Bolt, Isinbayeva up for athlete of the year award - Seattle Times
• Bolt, Isinbayeva up for athlete of the year award - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Bolt, Isinbayeva up for athlete of the year award

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.

Bolt, Isinbayeva up for athlete of the year award

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.

Bolt, Isinbayeva up for athlete of the year award

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards.

Women's athletics award shortlist with Richards, Isinbayeva, Vlasic

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Monte Carlo - Sanya Richards could cap a golden season with the athlete of the year award as the United States 400 metres runner is on the final shortlist of the women's ballot. Richards won the world title in Berlin and also shared the Golden League jackpot of 1 million dollars with Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele. Isinbayeva...

Fore! And there goes Tiger Woods’s image...

Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

Then I think back to the Beijing Olympics and some of the greatest moments ever seen in sport, with Usain Bolt and Yelena Isinbayeva. Then to great athletes across the years, Kelly Holmes and Denise Lewis and Cathy Freeman and Michael Johnson ... athletics has given us more peak moments than any other sport. The BBC Sports Personality of the Year award has gone to a track and field athlete...

Bolt & Gay Set For 3 Diamond League Matchups In 2010

Cool Running: Top News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

... committed to seven Diamond League appearances are distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva and Steve Hooker, 400 runner Sanya Richards, high jumper Blanka Vlasic and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The Diamond League offers $6.63 million in total prize money across 32 track and field disciplines, each staged seven times over the series. A four-carat diamond...

Bolt, Gay to lock horns in Diamond League

Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

... committed to seven Diamond League appearances are distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva and Steve Hooker, 400 runner Sanya Richards, high jumper Blanka Vlasic and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The Diamond League offers $6.63 million in total prize money across 32 track and field disciplines, each staged seven times over the series. A four-carat diamond...

Bolt headlines athletes lined up for Diamond League

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Distance runner Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and Australian Steve Hooker, women's 400 metres sprinter Sanya Richards of the United States, high jumper Blanka Vlasic of Croatia and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway are the other contracted athletes.

Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay set for 3 showdowns in Diamond League

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

... committed to seven Diamond League appearances are distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva and Steve Hooker, 400 runner Sanya Richards, high jumper Blanka Vlasic and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen.The Diamond League offers $6.63 million in total prize money across 32 track and field disciplines, each staged seven times over the series. A four-carat diamond...

• Bolt, Gay to lock horns in Diamond League - Japan Times

Is Sanya Richards the Best of '09?

Runner's World Magazine Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

Is Sanya Richards the Female Athlete of the Year?Yesterday we told you about the five male contenders for top year-end IAAF honors. Richards, the World Championships 400-meter gold medalist, is the only American among the five female finalists; she's also the only runner. The other nominees are pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia, high jumper Blanka Vlasic of Croatia, shot putter...