Yekaterina Lisina

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Viktorovna and the family name is Lisina.
Ekaterina Lisina
WBC Spartak Moscow Region
2011–2014Dynamo Kursk
Medals
Representing  Russia
Women's Basketball
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team Competition
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2006 Brazil
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Italy
Silver medal – second place 2009 Latvia

Yekaterina Viktorovna Lisina (

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, 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

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

Lisina is fond of reading and singing karaoke. She easily communicates on the Internet and 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]

In 2013, she starred in the video of the USB group "Two Meters of Love".

References

  1. ^ Yekaterina Lisina Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
  2. ^ Video: Meet the 6’ 9” Russian model with the world’s longest legs Rachel Swatman 11 September 2017
  3. ^ "7 days quiz: What has this woman entered the record books for?". BBC News. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  4. ^ Russian Model With World's Longest Legs Breaks Guinness Record
  5. ^ "World's Longest Legs Record Broken By Texas Teen". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  6. ^ "6'9" Cosplaying Olympian Is Now Resident Evil's Tall Vampire Lady". Kotaku. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  7. Комсомольская правда. 2008-09-09. Archived
    from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Пензенская баскетболистка Екатерина Лисина стала мамой". Пенза-Спорт. 2011-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2014-02-26.

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