1. Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno is a Russian chess grandmaster.
13 Facts About Kateryna Lagno
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Kateryna Lagno 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.
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Kateryna Lagno 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.
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Kateryna 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.
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Kateryna 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.
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Kateryna Lagno reached the third round and lost to eventual runner-up Ekaterina Kovalevskaya.
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In May 2008, Kateryna 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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Kateryna Lagno finished third in the Grandmaster Group C of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011 in Wijk aan Zee.
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In December 2012, Kateryna Lagno tied for first with Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzychuk in the women's rapid chess event of the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, taking the gold medal on tie-break score.
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In 2016, Kateryna Lagno won the gold medal in the women's blitz chess event of the IMSA Elite Mind Games in Huai'an, China.
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In November 2018, Kateryna Lagno lost to world champion Ju Wenjun in the finals of the Women's World Championship.
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In December 2018, Kateryna Lagno won the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship held in St Petersburg without losing any games.
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On 25 February 2009, Kateryna Lagno married Robert Fontaine, French chess grandmaster and TV reporter.