Alina Maratovna Kabaeva

Alina Kabaeva
Personal information
Surname:	Alina Maratovna Kabaeva
Nationality:	Russia
discipline	Rhythmic sports gymnastics
Trainer:	Irina Winer
Birthday:	12th May 1983 (age 37)
Place of birth:	Tashkent , Soviet Union
Size:	166 cm
Weight:	50 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 9 × 3 × 2 × European championships 15 × 3 × 3 ×
Medals
Olympic games bronze 2000 Sydney Individual all-around gold 2004 Athens Individual all-around  World championships gold 1999 Osaka Single ball gold 1999 Osaka Single band silver 1999 Osaka Single rope silver 1999 Osaka Single tire gold 1999 Osaka Individual all-around gold 1999 Osaka Team all-around gold 2003 Budapest Single ball gold 2003 Budapest Single band silver 2003 Budapest Single tire bronze 2003 Budapest Single clubs gold 2003 Budapest Individual all-around gold 2003 Budapest Team all-around gold 2007 Patras Team all-around bronze 2007 Patras Single band  European championships gold 1998 postage Individual all-around bronze 1998 postage Team all-around gold 1999 Budapest tires gold 1999 Budapest Individual all-around silver 1999 Budapest tape bronze 1999 Budapest rope gold 2000 Zaragoza ball gold 2000 Zaragoza tape gold 2000 Zaragoza tires gold 2000 Zaragoza Individual all-around gold 2000 Zaragoza Team all-around bronze 2000 Zaragoza rope gold 2001 Geneva ball gold 2001 Geneva tires gold 2001 Geneva Clubs silver 2001 Geneva rope gold 2002 Granada Individual all-around gold 2002 Granada Team all-around gold 2004 Kiev Individual all-around gold 2004 Kiev Team all-around silver 2006 Moscow Individual all-around

Alina "Anna" Maratowna Kabaeva ( Russian Алина Маратовна Кабаева , Tatar Алина Марат кызы Кабаева / Älinä Marat Qizi Qabayeva * 12. May 1983 in Tashkent ) is a Russian rhythmic gymnast . She is multiple Russian champion, European champion and world champion in this discipline. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and was Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She was also a member of the Russian State Duma for the United Russia party from 2007 to 2014 and has been Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Media Group (NMG) since September 2014.

origin

Alina Kabaeva is the daughter of Marat Kabaev, a Tatar football player and coach who played in the major league for Paxtakor Tashkent in the 1980s , and of Lyubov Mikhailovna Kabaeva, a Russian professional basketball player. The parents are divorced and after the separation, Alina and her sister Lejsan lived with their mother in Moscow.

Athletic career

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

Far-reaching changes in rhythmic gymnastics in the 1990s are associated with Alina's name. The performances of the gymnasts became much more dynamic and enriched with difficult elements. Her trainer Irina Winer (Russian Ирина Александровна Винер ), from whom she has been training since 1995, had a great influence on Kabaeva's gymnastics style . Winer also had Irina Chashchina under her wing. Furthermore, Winer is the wife of the Russian oligarch and Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov , who is also president of the international umbrella organization for fencing ( FIE ).

Alina Kabajewa (bronze), Julija Barsukowa (gold) and Julija Raskina (silver) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney

At the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 , Alina Kabaeva won the bronze medal in the individual all-around event and finally the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .

She is double world champion in all around competitions (1999 and 2003), six times world champion in individual disciplines and won the gold medal with the team at the 2007 World Cup. At European Championships between 1998 and 2006 she won a total of 16 gold medals (6 in all-around, 8 in individual disciplines, 2 with the team).

Alina Kabaeva ended her career in the Russian national team for rhythmic gymnastics, which she had started in 1996, in 2007. She is in second place in the ranking of the most successful rhythmic gymnasts in Russia, just behind Yevgenia Kanaeva .

2001 doping incident

On August 30, 2001, Alina Kabaeva and her competitor Irina Tschaschtschina tested positive for the unauthorized diuretic furosemide at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane . The diuretic causes weight loss. Despite the positive result, they were allowed to take part in the World Cup in Madrid in October. For unknown reasons, the test result was only published two months after the test, after the two athletes had already won gold and silver medals at the World Cup in Madrid. On October 28, 2001, a week after the World Championships in Madrid, the two athletes were informed of the positive test result from the end of August in Brisbane. Alina Kabaeva was banned for one year (August 2001 to August 2002) in February 2002, and was suspended for another year. The medals that Kabaeva and Chashchina had won at the Goodwill Games in August and at the World Cup in Madrid in October 2001 were collected by a FIG commission. Head coach Irina Winer, who was also vice-president of a committee of rhythmic gymnastics in FIG at this time, did not accept the penalties and appealed to the Court of Sport in Lausanne contradict one. Winer explained that her girls in distant Australia would have swallowed the diuretic without malicious intent: The furosemide was in a dietary supplement called "Hiper" that the athletes took to alleviate premenstrual syndrome . The team's physiotherapist bought the product from a local pharmacy. The food supplement based on St. John's wort ( Hypericum ) is taken for mild depressive moods and contains various vitamins and magnesium in addition to St. John's wort, hawthorn and black nettle . Since the original composition does not contain furosemide, but the athletes' “Hiper” capsules tested positive for the presence of furosemide on November 8, 2001, the Russian side assumed that they had been sold a counterfeit product. The sports court did not recognize this, however, as the defense was unable to prove that the capsules that tested positive on November 8 were from the same package as the capsules that Kabaeva took at the end of August.

The doping case was spectacular because, for a period of twenty years, there had not been a single positive result among Russian participants in gymnastics competitions, although doping tests had been carried out on hundreds of gymnasts from the Soviet Union and Russia.

In an interview with the Bolshoi Sport newspaper in 2013, Kabaeva described her feelings about the events of 2001 in such a way that she would have been treated badly at the time. She criticized the approach of those responsible for the doping controls. If the laboratory results were positive two weeks after the Goodwill Games 2001 in August, why were they allowed to participate in the World Championships in October? An announcement of the result before the World Cup would have prevented the participation of the Russians. After Kabaeva and Chashchina had won there, the medals were spectacularly stolen from them and handed over to the runners-up from Ukraine and Bulgaria.

The then Russian President Vladimir Putin with Alina Kabaeva at the award of the Order for Services to the Fatherland on December 21, 2005

Awards

Alina Kabajewa has the Russian sports title "Honored Master of Sport". In 2001 she was awarded the " Order of Friendship " and in December 2005 the " Order for Services to the Fatherland " 4th grade.

Politics and media

In addition to sports, Alina Kabaeva is also active in politics. From December 2001 to October 2005 she was a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party , then until September 2007 Vladimir Putin elected a member of the Social Chamber of the Russian Federation .

On December 2, 2007, she became a Member of the Russian State Duma for United Russia , where she served as Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma Committee on Youth Affairs. In this capacity, she also voted in December 2012 for the controversial Dima Yakovlev law , which prohibits US citizens from adopting Russian children, among other things.

From February 2008 to September 2014, she was also the chair of the Public Council of the National Media Group (NMG) (Russian: Национальная Медиа Группа ) in mid-September 2014, she announced the resignation of her mandate in the State Duma in order to accept the proposed chairmanship of the NMG take over. She succeeded Kirill Kovalchuk, a nephew of Yuri Kovalchuk . Kirill changed to the management, where he took over the chairmanship. The NMG includes the Izvestia newspaper and the Petersburg TV station Petersburg – Fifth Channel , the First Channel and REN-TV .

Vladimir Putin in conversation with Alina Kabaeva. The recording was made during the Russian Championships in rhythmic gymnastics in 2001.

2008 wedding scandal

On April 12, 2008, the Russian newspaper Moskowskij Korrespondent reported in its Saturday edition that Russian President Vladimir Putin had divorced his wife and would marry Alina Kabaeva. This was denied by the spokeswoman for Kabaeva. The oligarch Alexander Lebedev , owner of the paper, told Radio Echo Moskvy on April 16 that he had not heard about the story before it was published because he could not be reached by phone.

Two days later, on April 18, Lebedev dismissed the newspaper staff and temporarily stopped the publication of the paper on the grounds that it was unprofitable. Until then, the newspaper had appeared five times a week. The circulation of 30,000 copies could only be sold to 45 percent, said Artjom Artjomow, the managing director of Lebedev's media holding company. There are still 4 million rubles in the newspaper's accounts (the equivalent of around 108 thousand euros), which is enough to settle accounts with the employees. In June Lebedev announced the restart of the newspaper with investments of $ 3 million annually.

At the beginning of October 2008 the paper appeared again, now with Akram Murtasajew as editor-in-chief at the helm. However, only with a weekly circulation of 20,000 copies. The paper was discontinued at the end of October 2008, this time for good.

Alexander Lebedev accused the Moscow city administration of preventing his newspaper from flourishing: the capital city administration hindered the "correspondent" by buying up circulation, sales bans and advertising boycotts, which made it unprofitable. Lebedev also claimed in an interview with GQ magazine that Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov had put the wedding story of Putin and Kabaeva in his paper in order to damage him, Lebedev.

In October 2010, the media again spread rumors about a secret wedding between Putin and Kabaeva that was supposed to have taken place in Iversky Monastery near Valdai .

Private life

Alina Kabaeva was in a relationship with Dawid Musselijani (born 1969) from the Moscow police from 2002 to 2005. At the beginning of 2006, the couple separated in friendship. In an interview with the sports magazine Bolshoi Sport in 2013, she said that the experience taught her to protect personal life. She would be willing to talk about anything but personal matters. The only thing she wants to reveal in this context is that she has no children and that this is the truth. In the past few years, rumors had been spread from various media that Alina Kabaeva had become a mother. Alina Kabaeva had already made it clear in early 2011 that the boy who appeared with her in a photo in various magazines was not her son, but her nephew Arseni, the son of her younger sister Lejsan.

Others

During her doping ban from 2001 to 2002, Alina Kabajewa worked as a sports commentator for the Russian television station 7 TV and played a supporting role in the Japanese feature film Red Shadow: Akakage .

In 2003, the Russian edition of Maxim magazine published erotic images of Alina Kabaeva.

In 2006 she was voted Woman of the Year by the readers of the Russian women's magazine GLAMOR , and in the same year in the top 10 sexy in the sports category . In 2006 she appeared as herself in the music video Alina Kabajewa by the Russian band Igra slow .

In 2011 she appeared on the cover of Russian Vogue.

The "Alina Kabaeva Charity Foundation ", which she founded, mainly endeavors to promote young athletic talents.

Alina Kabaeva was one of the Russian torchbearers at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

Web links

Commons : Alina Kabaeva  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alina Maratowna Kabajewa in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 25, 2020 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Official site ( Memento of February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kabaeva-alina.ru (also in English)
• Official site in Russian ( memento of February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kabaeva-alina.ru
• Official site in English ( memento of February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kabaeva-alina.ru
• Алина Маратовна Кабаева , short biography at gazeta.ru (Russian)
• Кабаева Алина Маратовна , biography at vesti.ru, October 27, 2009 (Russian)
• Alina Kabaeva Maratovna , biography at rin.ru (English)
• Alina Kabaeva in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Alina Kabaeva in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information about Marat Kabayev can be found in the English language Wikipedia: Marat Kabayev
2. ↑ Как жизнь? "ССФ" побеседовал с бывшим футболистом "Пахтакора" Маратом Кабаевым ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Sovsport.ru, December 10, 2012 (Russian)
3. ↑ Спортсмены - Биография Алины Кабаевой (biography Alina Kabaeva), at biographer.ru
4. ↑ Алина Кабаева ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Biography of Alina Kabajewa, moimirwomen.ru (Russian)
5. ↑ Общественный совет ( Memento from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), kabaeva-alina.ru
6. ↑ http://nm-g.ru/en/flash/#/board-of-directors/ (link not available)
7. ^ Sports Round-up - Gymnastics , telegraph.co.uk, Jan. 4, 2002
8. ↑ Doping in Rhythmic Gymnastics ( Memento from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Алину Кабаеву дисквалифицировали , izvestia.ru, February 21, 2002 (Russian)
10. ↑ Кабаева и Чащина дисквалифицированы и лишены медалей ( Memento of November 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), kommersant.ru, February 21, 2002
11. ↑ Kabaeva's dance out of the shadows, the gymnast's comeback after her doping ban , gymmedia.com, September 5, 2002
12. ↑ PLUS: GYMNASTICS; Russian Federation Appeals Suspensions , nytimes.com, February 22, 2002
13. ↑ Кабаева и Чащина официально попались на допинге , izvestia.ru, December 20, 2001
14. ↑ History of Rhythmic Gymnastics ( Memento June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), deesiderhythmicgymnastics.co.uk
15. ↑ Biologically active food supplement Hiper , healthcarevision.co.uk
16. ↑ http://gost-reg.ru/reference/desc/is/0004045 (link not available)
17. ↑ Самокаев Тагир в новостях и прессе ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , personize.ru 
18. ↑ АНТИСТРЕССОВЫЙ КОМПЛЕКС: ГИПЕР ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , prodvision.ru 
19. ↑ Тагир САМОКАЕВ: "Суд подтвердил невиновность Кабаевой и Чащиной" , sports.ru, February 2, 2003
20. ↑ Kabaeva's dance out of the shadows, the gymnast's comeback after her doping ban , gymmedia.com, September 5, 2002
21. ↑ Alina Kabaeva: I don't have any children. This is the truth. , zhenyakanaevagymnasium.com, June 30, 2013
22. ↑ Алина Кабаева: Детей у меня нет. Это правда ( memento of July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), sovsport.ru, June 27, 2013
23. ↑ Alina Kabaeva on the State Duma website (Russian)
24. ↑ Общественный совет ( Memento from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), kabaeva-alina.ru
25. ↑ Исмаилов, Руслан; Ольга Братцева. "Дети вне политики!" Идеолог, свердловский депутат Госдумы "закона Димы Яковлева": "Дауны остан. Всё! ”“ Они все - Лахова, Кабаева, Роднина - утратили право называться женщинами ”. , znak.com, December 21, 2012 (Russian)
26. ↑ Кабаева ушла к Ковальчукам. Алина Кабаева станет председателем совета директоров «Национальной Медиа Группы» , gazeta.ru, September 15, 2014 (Russian)
27. ↑ Board of Directors - Kabaeva, Alina Maratovna , nm-g.ru
28. ↑ Алина Кабаева станет председателем совета директоров "Национальной Медиа Группы" (Alina Kabajewa becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors of ITAR - NMGASSisch September 15, 2014)
29. ↑ Кабаева ушла к Ковальчукам , gazeta.ru, September 15, 2014
30. ↑ http://nm-g.ru/en/flash/#/management/ (link not available)
31. ↑ Board of Directors , nm-g.ru
32. ↑ На WikiLeaks опубликован материал о Путине и Кабаевой , yuga.ru, February 9, 2011
33. ↑ Divorce in February, wedding in June? spiegel.de
34. ↑ Путин и Кабаева: версия WikiLeaks , sta-sta.ru, March 7, 2012
35. ^ Divorce rumor about Putin: newspaper closed , aktuell.ru, April 21, 2008
36. ↑ Media law tightened ( memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) orf.at
37. ↑ "Московский корреспондент" отложил второе пришествие , kommersant.ru, October 31, 2008 (Russian)
38. ↑ «Московский корреспондент» вернулся. И предложил выбор между Дзержинским и Солженицыным ( memento of July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), gipp.ru, October 2, 2008
39. ↑ "Московский корреспондент" отложил второе пришествие , kommersant.ru, October 31, 2008 (Russian)
40. ^ Divorce rumor about Putin: newspaper closed , aktuell.ru, April 21, 2008
41. ↑ «" Московский корреспондент "отложил второе пришествие» , kommersant.ru, October 31, 2008 (Russian)
42. ^ In shadow of Kremlin, an oligarch speaks out , nytimes.com, September 28, 2008
43. ↑ Владимир Путин и Алина Кабаева обвенчались в Валдайском Иверском монастыреТбилиси ( Memento from 9 July 2015 on the Internet archive ), 28th September 2010 on the Internet archive
44. ↑ Путин обвенчался с Кабаевой , lenpravda.ru, September 22, 2013
45. ↑ От кого родила депутат Алина Кабаева? ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , rospres.com, May 20, 2009 
46. ↑ Милиционер променял Кабаеву на актрису ( memento of July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), fedpost.ru, February 14, 2006
47. ↑ Alina Kabaeva: I don't have any children. This is the truth. , zhenyakanaevagymnasium.com, June 30, 2013
48. ↑ Алина Кабаева: Детей у меня нет. Это правда ( memento of July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), sovsport.ru, June 27, 2013
49. ↑ Алина Кабаева родила сына от Владимира Путина? ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , rospres.com, December 17, 2009 
50. ↑ От кого родила депутат Алина Кабаева? ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , rospres.com, May 20, 2009 (Russian) 
51. ↑ Алина Кабаева рассказала журналу Vogue о своем племяннике, "сыне Путина" , newsru.co.il, January 24, 2011
52. ↑ Алина Кабаева биография, фото - узнай все! , uznayvse.ru
53. ↑ Алина Кабаева рассказала правду о "сыне" ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), metronews.ru, January 24, 2011
54. ↑ Putin's “Beloved” on the cover of “Vogue” L'essentiel online
55. ↑ Charity Foundation ( Memento from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
56. ↑ Kabaeva is Olympic torchbearer at Opening Ceremony " , usatoday.com, February 2014