Yekaterina Lisina
 Yekaterina Lisina in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 October 1987 Penza, Penza Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Listed height | 6 ft 9.2 in (2.06 m) |
| Listed weight | 198 lb (90 kg) |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 2006–2014 |
| Position | Center |
| Career history | |
| 2006–2009 | WBC CSKA Moscow |
| 2009 | Good Angels Košice |
| 2010 | WBC Spartak Moscow Region |
| 2011–2014 | Dynamo Kursk |
Medals | |
Yekaterina Viktorovna Lisina (Russian: Екатерина Викторовна Лисина; born 15 October 1987), also known as Ekaterina Lisina, is a Russian model and former basketball player. She currently holds a Guinness World Record as the tallest professional model. Throughout her basketball career, she competed for the Russian National Team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal.[1]
World record holder
[edit]Lisina held two world records: the record for the woman with the longest legs, with her left leg at 132.8 cm (52.28 in/4 ft 4.28 in) and her right leg at 132.2 cm (52.04 in/4 ft 4.04 in), and for the tallest professional model at 205.16 cm (80.77 in/6 ft 8.77 in), and has also been officially recognized as having the largest feet for a woman in Russia (EU 47/US 16), all of which was awarded by Guinness World Records and published in their 2018 issue.[2][3][4]
In October 2020, the world record for woman with the longest legs went to 6'10 (208.28 cm) Texas teenager Maci Currin, with her left leg at 135.267 cm (53.255 in/4 ft 5.255 in) and her right leg at 134.3 cm (52.874 in/4 ft 4.874 in.) She also formerly held the teenage version of the same record before aging out of it.[5]
Popular culture
[edit]In addition to modeling, Lisina is a cosplayer who portrayed the Resident Evil Village antagonist Lady Dimitrescu.[6] As of November 2022 she has a social media following that has surpassed 10,000,000 garnering over 117,000,000 "likes".
Personal life
[edit]Lisina is fond of reading and singing karaoke. She loves to take pictures. Lisina used to embroider paintings.[7]
She is a follower of Hinduism and became a vegetarian after she converted.[8]
On January 24, 2011, Ekaterina Lisina gave birth to her son.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Yekaterina Lisina Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- ^ Video: Meet the 6’ 9” Russian model with the world’s longest legs Rachel Swatman 11 September 2017
- ^ "7 days quiz: What has this woman entered the record books for?". BBC News. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ Russian Model With World's Longest Legs Breaks Guinness Record
- ^ "World's Longest Legs Record Broken By Texas Teen". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ "6'9" Cosplaying Olympian Is Now Resident Evil's Tall Vampire Lady". Kotaku. 31 March 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
- ^ "Баскетболистка Екатерина Лисина: "На свою свадьбу приглашу всю Пензу!"". Комсомольская правда. 2008-09-09. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
- ^ Know why the tallest Basketball player in the world adopted Hinduism? Archived 2018-09-19 at the Wayback Machine Alok Shetty. Проверено 28 марта 2017.
- ^ "Пензенская баскетболистка Екатерина Лисина стала мамой". Пенза-Спорт. 2011-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
External links
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Media related to Yekaterina Lisina at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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- Living people
- Russian women's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Olympic basketball players for Russia
- Russian female models
- Russian models
- 1987 births
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in basketball
- Sportspeople from Penza
- Converts to Hinduism from Christianity
- Russian Hindus
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Russia
- Centers (basketball)
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade