Yekaterina Lisina
Personal information | |
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Born | Penza, Penza Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 15 October 1987
Nationality | Russian |
Listed height | 6 ft 9 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[]
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 47, US 12) 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] Lisina still holds the other records.
Popular Culture[]
In addition to modeling, Lisina is a cosplayer who portrayed Resident Evil Village's antagonist Lady Dimitrescu.[7]
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.
External links[]
- Media related to Yekaterina Lisina at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- "Ekaterina Lisina Net Worth, Height, Weight, Boyfriend, Feet & Biography | Wealthy Celebrity".
- Living people
- Russian women's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Olympic basketball players of Russia
- Russian female models
- 1987 births
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Universiade medalists in basketball
- Sportspeople from Penza
- Converts to Hinduism
- Russian Hindus
- Universiade silver medalists for Russia
- Centers (basketball)
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
- Russian basketball biography stubs