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 in (2.06 m) |
| Listed weight | 212 lb (96 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
Lisina held two world records: the record for the woman with the longest legs 1.32 m (4 ft 4 in) and for the tallest professional model 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in), both noted in the Guinness World Records 2018.[2][3][4] She also has been officially recognized as having the largest feet (EU 49, US 16) of a woman in Russia.[5] In October 2020, the world record for woman with the longest legs (over 1.34 m) went to US teenager, Maci Currin.[6]
Popular culture
In addition to modeling, Lisina is a cosplayer who portrayed the Resident Evil Village antagonist Lady Dimitrescu.[7]
Personal life
Lisina is fond of reading and singing karaoke. She easily communicates on the Internet and loves to take pictures. Lisina used to embroider paintings.[8]
She is a follower of Hinduism and became a vegetarian after she converted.[9]
On January 24, 2011, Ekaterina Lisina gave birth to her son.[10]
In 2013, she starred in the video of the USB group "Two Meters of Love".
References
- ^ 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. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ Russian Model With World's Longest Legs Breaks Guinness Record
- ^ "Meet Ekaterina Lisina, Tallest Professional Model At 6 ft 8 inches". India.com. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ "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. 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
Media related to Yekaterina Lisina at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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