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Kateryna Lahno
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Russian chess player
Key facts
- Born
- Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lahno , ( 1989-12-27 ) 27 December 1989 (age 36) , Lviv , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Spouse s
- Robert Fontaine ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 , divorced ) , Alexander Grischuk ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 )
- Country
- Ukraine (until 2014), Russia (since 2014)
- Title
- Grandmaster (2007)
- Fide rating
- 2506 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2563 (October 2022)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Lviv
- Spouse
- Robert Fontaine
- Occupation
- chess player
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Award
- Order of Friendship
- Participant in
- Women's Chess Olympiad 2014
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Image
- Kateryna Lahno 2013.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kateryna Lahno
- date of birth
- 1989-12-27
- title of chess person
- International Master
- name in native language
- Катерина Олександрівна Лагно
- Elo rating
- 2505
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- WikiProject Ukraine
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Encyclopedic overview
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lagno (born 27 December 1989) is a Russian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years, four months and two days. In 2007, she was awarded the grandmaster title.
She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, playing for Ukraine and Russia respectively. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017 and 2021 playing for the Russian team. Lagno won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. Lagno was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kateryna Lahno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.