Kateryna Lagno
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| Full name | Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lahno Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno |
| Country |
Ukraine (until 2014) Russia (since 2014) |
| Born |
27 December 1989 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title |
Grandmaster Woman Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2543 (March 2017) (No. 11 ranked woman in the November 2015 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2557 (January 2012) |
Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno (Ukrainian: Катерина Олександрівна Лагно, Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lahno; Russian: Екатерина Александровна Лагно, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno; born 27 December 1989) is a Ukrainian-born chess player; in 2014 she became a Russian citizen. She earned the FIDE 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 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 Chess Championship of 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team, and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2013 and 2015 playing for Ukraine in the former and Russia in the latter.
Born in Lviv, Lagno grew up in the industrial and chess-friendly town Kramatorsk, later moving to Donetsk. She is half Russian, and half Ukrainian.
In 1999 she won the under-10 girls' section at the World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar.
Lagno was nominated by FIDE president to play in the 64-player knockout Women's World Chess Championship 2004, where she was the fifth seed. She reached the third round and lost to eventual runner-up Ekaterina Kovalevskaya. At the age of 15 she won the 2005 European Individual Women's Championship, held in June in Chişinău, Moldova. Tied with Russian IM Nadezhda Kosintseva at the end of the 12th round with 9 points each, Lagno won both games of a two-game rapid-play tie-break playoff to win the championship. She won IV Women's "North Urals Cup – 2006", attaining a grandmaster norm in the process. In May 2008, Lagno won the European Individual Women Chess Championships again in Plovdiv, by one-half point in the 11-round open tournament.
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