Svetlana Pankratova

Svetlana Pankratova (born April 29, 1971 ) is a Russian woman formerly recognized, according to Guinness World Records, as having the longest legs of any woman in the world.

While she is not the world's tallest woman, her legs are 132 centimeters long. Because her upper body is of much more typical dimensions, she is tall. She has also very large feet, size 13 (US) / 46 (EU).

Pankratova was born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, USSR. She played women's basketball at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, US, from 1992 to 1995. She was an impact player, setting two school records which are still unbroken:

No. 1 ⁃ Career Blocked Shots, 1992–95 (176) No. 1 ⁃ Single Season Total Blocked Shots, 1994–95 (75) No. 8 ⁃ Single Season Field Goals, 1994–95 (178)

Pankratova appeared in Trafalgar Square in London on 16 September 2008, with He Pingping, then the smallest man in the world (before his death in March 2010), to promote the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Records. Along with her native Russian, Pankratova speaks English and some Spanish. She lived in Torremolinos, Spain.

In 2017, Pankratova was surpassed by Yekaterina Lisina (also Russian) for the record of the woman with the longest legs.