Svetlana Feofanova Explained

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

Svetlana Feofanova was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. She has studied at the Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Feofanova was a gymnast in her youth but did not continue competing in the sport.

In the World Athletics Championships, 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 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. On 4 July 2004 she pole vaulted in Heraklion, Greece, which was a world record at the time.

She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics (behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva). She won the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships gold medal for the pole vault in Birmingham, England, at . She won the bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Personal bests

2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	—	NM (q)
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	2nd	4.51
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	2nd	4.75
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	1st	4.75
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	4.60
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	4.80
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	1st	4.75
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd	4.70
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	2nd	4.75
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	4.70
2006	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	4.50
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	4.76
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	3rd	4.75
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	5th	4.60
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	3rd	4.75
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	2nd	4.80
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	1st	4.75
	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	1st	4.60
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	3rd	4.75
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	—	NM (q)

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 .