Yekaterina Lisina

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]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Viktorovna and the family name is Lisina.
Ekaterina Lisina
Yekaterina Lisina in 2012
Personal information
Born (1987-10-15) 15 October 1987
Penza, Penza Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Listed height6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight212 lb (96 kg)
Career information
Playing career2006–2014
PositionCenter
Career history
2006–2009WBC CSKA Moscow
2009Good Angels Košice
2010WBC Spartak Moscow Region
2011–2014Dynamo Kursk
Medals
Representing  Russia
Women's Basketball
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 BeijingTeam Competition
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2006 Brazil
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2007 Italy
Silver medal – second place2009 Latvia

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 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in), both noted in the Guinness World Records 2018.[2][3][4] She also has been officially recognized as having the largest feet (EU 45 or US 12) as 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]

In addition to modeling, Lisina is a cosplayer who portrayed the Resident Evil Village antagonist Lady Dimitrescu.[7] 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.[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
  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. "Meet Ekaterina Lisina, Tallest Professional Model At 6 ft 8 inches". India.com. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  6. "World's Longest Legs Record Broken By Texas Teen". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  7. "6'9" Cosplaying Olympian Is Now Resident Evil's Tall Vampire Lady". Kotaku. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  8. "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.
  9. 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.
  10. "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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