Pavel Eljanov
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| Full name | Павло Володимирович Ельянов |
| Country | Ukraine |
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10 May 1983 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2751 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2765 (March 2016) |
| Peak ranking | No. 6 (September 2010) |
Pavel Eljanov (Ukrainian: Павло Володимирович Ельянов, Pavlo Volodymyrovych Eljanov; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Olympiads.
He acted as a second for Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship 2007,Candidates Matches 2011 and World Chess Championship 2012, for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2013, and for Mariya Muzychuk in the Women's World Chess Championship 2016.
In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine.
Eljanov won the 2007 Corus B tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands with a score of 9/13. This result enabled him to qualify for the category 20 tournament Corus A 2008. In the latter he scored 5/13.
He won the 2009 Bosna Chess Tournament, a six-player double round-robin tournament in Sarajevo, with a score of 7/10.
In May 2010, he won the Astrakhan stage of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010 scoring 8/13. In August 2010, he won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen.
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