Alina Kasabieva
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Russia Kasabieva at the 2021 World Championships in Oslo, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | Алина Романовна Касабиева | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Alina Romanovna Kasabieva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 62 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Crimea-SPORT WC[1] Soslan Andiyev's WC[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Oleg Kudukhov, Ignat Grek[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alina Kasabieva (Russian: Алина Романовна Касабиева; born 6 March 2002[1] in Georgia) is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Ossetian descent, 2025 senior world runner-up, 2021 U20 European and world champion. 2x Senior national champion.
She was born in South Ossetia, Georgia, into an Ossetian family,[2] then she moved to Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, where she started wrestling at the age of 10.[1]
Career
Her first achievement was at the 2019 Cadet world championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she took a bronze medal.[3] In 2021, as a junior wrestler, she became Russian, European and world champion at 62 kilos.[2] Also, Alina made her debut in senior level at the 2021 world championships, where she came 7th.[4] In 2022, Kasabieva competed at the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix and took one of the bronze medals and became senior national champion.[5][6] During the 2023 part of the season, Kasabieva won Russian nationals again.[7] In the post-season she beat Elis Manolova of Bulgaria, senior world champion Anastasia Nichita of Moldova and Olympic silver medalist Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan at the Ivan Poddubny wrestling league.[8][9][10] In April 2024, she earned a quota place for the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France as an independent neutral athlete.[11][12] In May 2024, she came third at the U23 European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.[13]