Alina Kasabieva

Alina Romanovna Kasabieva (Алина Романовна Касабиева; born 6 March 2002 in Georgia) is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Ossetian descent, 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 medalsit 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.

Honors

 * 2018 Cadet Russian Championships — 3rd.
 * 2019 Cadet World Championships — 3rd.
 * 2021, 2022 Junior Russian Championships — 1st.
 * 2021 Junior European Championships — 1st.
 * 2021 Junior World Championships — 1st.
 * 2022 Ivan Yarygin GP — 3rd.
 * 2022, 2023 Russian nationals — 1st.
 * 2023 Ivan Poddubny wrestling league 1,2,3,4 — 1st.
 * 2023 Grand Prix Zagreb Open — 3rd.
 * 2024 U23 European Championship — 3rd.