Alina Kasabieva


Alina Romanovna Kasabieva is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Ossetian descent, 2025 senior world runner-up, 2021 U20 European and world champion. 2x Senior national champion.

Background

She was born in South Ossetia, Georgia, into an Ossetian family, then she moved to Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, where she started wrestling at the age of 10.

Career

Her first achievement was at the 2019 Cadet world championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she took a bronze medal. In 2021, as a junior wrestler, she became Russian, European and world champion at 62 kilos. Also, Alina made her debut in senior level at the 2021 world championships, where she came 7th. In 2022, Kasabieva competed at the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix and took one of the bronze medals and became senior national champion. During the 2023 part of the season, Kasabieva won Russian nationals again. 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. In April 2024, she earned a quota place for the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France as an independent neutral athlete. In May 2024, she came third at the U23 European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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