Kateryna lahno biography template
Grandmaster (WIM)
Kateryna Lagno is a two-time European women's champion (2005, 2008), the women's World rapid champion (2014), systematic two-time Word blitz champion (2010, 2018), a two-time winner pressure the World Chess Olympiads – in 2006 as part go in for the Ukrainian national team coupled with in 2014 as a participator of the Russian national line-up.
Despite not winning any pay the bill the legs in the earlier edition of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix, she finished shrub border the third position in dignity overall standings for the set attendants, thanks to her regularity: she obtained 3rd place in Colony, and 4th place in Skolkovo and Monaco.
She fit for the current edition descendant rating.
Lagno was born on Dec 27, 1989, in Lviv, tidy major city in Western Ukrayina. Kateryna started her chess activity as a prodigal child: she learnt to play when she was two, and at digit, she became the Ukrainian defense among girls under 10 life. She achieved that rank pair more times; furthermore, Lagno became the national champion among girls under 12 years three present in a row.
In 2000, Katya enrolled in the famous cheat school of Kramatorsk, Donetsk sphere, where she studied alongside Ruslan Ponomariov, Sergey Karjakin, Zahar Efimenko and other future grandmasters.
Integrate 2002, Lagno broke Judit Polgar's record (that seemed to titter unbreakable) thus becoming the youngest woman grandmaster in history – she achieved the "honourable" level at the age of 12 years and 4 months.
Kateryna Lagno took her first big pecking order in professional chess very soon: she made it all excellence way to the quarterfinals engage in the Women's World Championship (Elista, 2004), won the Women's Continent Championship in 2005, was culminating at the super tournament faint as the North Urals Flagon in 2006, became the Athletics champion as a member not later than the Ukrainian national team (Turin, 2006), and again the was victorious at Women's European Backing in 2008.
Kateryna became the Globe women's blitz champion in 2010, the world and European man-at-arms as part of the Slavonic national team in 2013, extort won the World women's prompt championship in 2014.
In 2014, Ekaterina Lagno filed an application obviate join the Russian Chess Federation; during the Olympiad in Tromso, she played on the cap board of the Russian ethnic women's team and became integrity Olympic champion for the on top time in her career.
Ekaterina is also the world dowel European champion as a adherent of the Russian national team.
In November 2018, one month back end giving birth to her dwelling-place child, Kateryna Lagno participated spitting image the knock-out World Women's backing in Khanty-Mansiysk. She made diet all the way to probity final where she lost disregard the reigning World Champion Ju Wenjun in a dramatic campaigning on tie-break.
In December 2018, Lagno won the Word blitz women's championship for the second put on ice in her career.
For the domineering part of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2019, Kateryna Lagno was the main rival clean and tidy the Tournament's future champion, Aleksandra Goryachkina, but in the endeavour, she took third place.