Alina Kabaeva

Kabaeva's competitive record is almost absurd: two Olympic medals, fourteen World Championship medals, and twenty-one European ones, the haul of a generational athlete. Watching her old routines, the suppleness and precision still astonish me; she made the human body look impossibly elastic yet perfectly controlled. Her post-sport life as model, politician, and media executive is far more contested, and I won't pretend that part is uncomplicated. But the gymnastics were undeniably real, the product of ferocious discipline and nerve under pressure. As a pure competitor, she stands among the very best her sport has produced.

Name (English)

Alina Kabaeva

Name (Japanese)

アリーナ・カバエワ

Reading

ありーな・かばえわ

Born

May 12, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

Origin

Tashkent, Tashkent Khanate

Height

166 cm

Occupation

politician / model / rhythmic gymnast / film actor / athlete

University

Russian State University of Tourism and Services Studies

Awards & achievements

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
• Order of Friendship

• Official sitehttp://www.kabaeva-alina.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina%20Kabaeva
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254220

Tags

• politician
• model
• rhythmic gymnast

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.