1. Elena Sedina is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
14 Facts About Elena Sedina
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Elena Sedina has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship, the Australian Open Chess Championship, and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist.
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Elena Sedina won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship in 1988 and again in 1990.
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Elena Sedina obtained the titles of Woman International Master in 1990, Woman Grandmaster in 1996 and International Master in 1999.
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Elena Sedina moved to Italy in 1995 and transferred to the Italian Chess Federation in April 2001.
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Elena Sedina represented Ukraine in four Women's Chess Olympiads from 1994 to 2000, and represented Italy, on board 1, from 2004 to 2012.
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Elena Sedina won the bronze medal on board 3 at the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan 1996.
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Elena Sedina competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2001 where she was eliminated by former Women's World Chess Champion Maia Chiburdanidze in round two, the Women's World Chess Championship 2004 where she was eliminated by Elina Danielian in round one, and the Women's World Chess Championship 2008 where she made it to round three but was eliminated by eventual runner-up Hou Yifan in the rapid playoffs.
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Elena Sedina won the San Martino di Castrozza Open in 2001, came second in the 2000 Swiss Women's Chess Championship and won the event in 2001, and finished equal first in the Genoa Centurini Open in 2004.
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Elena Sedina has represented Italy in the Mitropa Cup eight times from 2008 to 2015.
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Elena Sedina has won two individual gold medals, four team gold medals, one silver team medal and three bronze team medals in the Mitropa Cup.
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Elena Sedina has played in several national chess championship teams: in Germany with OSG Baden-Baden, with Mendrisio in Switzerland, in France with the Clichy-Echecs-92, in England with Wood Green 1.
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Elena Sedina graduated in Economics at the University of Kyiv in 1990.
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Elena Sedina gained a PhD in chess training methods at the Kyiv Institute of Physical Culture and Sport in 1994.