Ekaterina Lisina | |
Position: | Center |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 9 |
Weight: | 198lb |
Nationality: | Russian |
Religion: | Hinduism --> |
Birth Date: | 1987 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Penza, Penza Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Career Start: | 2006 |
Career End: | 2014 |
Years1: | 2006–2009 |
Team1: | WBC CSKA Moscow |
Years2: | 2009 |
Team2: | Good Angels Košice |
Years3: | 2010 |
Team3: | WBC Spartak Moscow Region |
Years4: | 2011–2014 |
Team4: | Dynamo Kursk |
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]
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]
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".
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]
In 2013, she starred in the video of the USB group "Two Meters of Love".