Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva broke the world indoor women's pole vault record for the fourth time this year, providing the climax of a triumphant three days for Russia at the European indoor championships.

After the last of her rivals had bowed out on Sunday, Isinbayeva soared over the bar at 4.90 metres to break the mark she had bettered last month in Donetsk, Birmingham and Leivin. It was the 13th record of her short career.

"Right now the bar is my only rival," she said. "The five metres barrier is well within my capabilities."

Russia finished the championships with nine gold medals, six ahead of second-placed Sweden.

Hosts Spain had to wait until the dying stages to claim their first gold when Cuban-born Joan Lino Martinez won the long jump with his fourth leap of 8.37 metres.

The Spanish crowd had earlier erupted in fury when Luis Flores crashed to the track after colliding with Pole Piotr Klimczak at the end of the third leg of the men's 4x400 metres relay.

Poland were disqualified but it was little consolation to the Spaniards who finished fifth and last in a race won by the French quartet.

The best contest of the evening came in the men's high jump where Sweden's Olympic champion Stefan Holm and Russia's European outdoor gold medallist Yaroslav Rybakov battled for more than two hours.

With the bar at 2.40, both men missed once before Holm summoned all his resources and cleared the winning height.

The men's 60 metres hurdles final lost three athletes to false starts before the event finally started.

When the race got underway Ladji Doucoure won France's first gold medal of the championships, clocking 7.50 ahead of Spaniard Felipe Vivancos.

Susanna Kallur underlined the emergence of Sweden as a world athletics power when she defeated her twin sister Jenny by 0.19 of a second to win the women's hurdles in a season's best and national record 7.80.

Final medal standings

1. Russia (9 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze)
2. Sweden (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
3. France (2 gold, 2 bronze)
4. Ireland (2 gold)
5. Spain (1 gold, 6 silver, 5 bronze)
6. Britain (1 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze)
7. Poland (1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
8. Ukraine (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
9. Romania (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
10. Belarus (1 gold, 1 silver)