Three sides of life of famous athletics Alina Kabayeva
Alina Maratovna Kabaeva is a Russian Honored Master of Sports, a retired individual rhythmic gymnast, a model and film star, and a politician. Kabaeva is one of the most decorated gymnasts in rhythmic gymnastic history, with 2 Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals, and 25 European Championship medals.
Family:
Kabaeva, the daughter of a Tatar father and Russian mother, was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, in the Soviet Union, on 12 May 1983.[1] Kabaeva’s father, Marat Kabayev, was a professional football (soccer) player, and the family was constantly following him to different places in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia. She has a seven-year-old son.
Sport life:
1996 to 1999
Kabaeva stayed with Viner and made her international debut in 1996. In 1998, the 15-year-old Kabaeva won the European Championships in Portugal. At the time, Kabaeva was the youngest member of the Russian squad,
2000 to 2003
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in Australia, Kabaeva was expected to claim Gold in All-Around; however, due to an error in an otherwise exceptional performance — she dropped her hoop and ran to r2004 to 2007
In 2004, Kabaeva won the All-Around Gold at the 2004 European Championships in Kyiv. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Greece, Kabaeva won the Gold Medal in the Individual All-Around for Rhythmic Gymnastics, with a score of 108.400etrieve it outside of the competition area — Kabaeva won the Bronze Medal, with the final score of 39.466 In 2001, Kabaeva appeared in the Japanese movie, Red Shadow, performing her gymnastic routine.
In May 2009, Kabaeva traveled to Japan and participated in a bikini photoshoot.
Politics
In January 2011, Kabaeva appeared on the cover of Vogue Russia. In the same month, Kabaeva launched her singing career, taking to the stage for the first time.
In 2015, Kabaeva was an honorary guest at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2017, Kabaeva became the official FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Ambassador at the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy.
Come to politics
Since 2005, Kabaeva was a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.
Since February 2008, Kabaeva has been chairman of the National Media Group’s Public Counsel, the media group that controls Izvestia, Channel One and REN TV.
Between 2007 and 2014, Kabaeva has been a Member of the Russian Parliament, the State Duma, representing the United Russia party. In her capacity of a Member of Parliament, Kabaeva voted for a number of controversial laws that were speedily adopted in 2012 and 2013, including the Anti-Magnitsky bill on the ban of inter-country adoption (of Russian orphans) by families in the United States, as well as the Russian gay propaganda law that focuses on the prohibition of the homosexual propaganda aimed at adolescents, on extrajudicial ban of access to websites which may host materials violating copyright laws, and on the reorganization of the Academy of Sciences.
In September 2014, Kabaeva resigned from the Duma and accepted the position of chair of the board of directors of the National Media Group (ru), the largest Russian media conglomerate.
