Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The women’s pole vault at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 16 and 18 at the Beijing National Stadium.The qualifying standards were 4.45 m (A standard) and 4.30 m (B standard).The final was won by Yelena Isinbayeva who set a new world record height of 5.05 meters for the discipline.During the finals one of the poles which Brazilian Fabiana Murer would use disappeared causing her to spend 10–15 minutes trying to get it back.
