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Kateryna Lahno
Full name	Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lahno Катерина Олександрівна Лагно
Country	Ukraine
Born	December 27, 1989 (1989-12-27) (age 20) Lviv, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster Woman Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2481 (July 2009)
Peak rating	2509 (October 2005)

Kateryna Lahno (born December 27, 1989) is a Ukrainian chess player. She earned the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years and 4 months, breaking Judit Polgar's record to become the youngest ever to earn this title. She is now a full Grandmaster (GM).^[1] Born in Lviv, Lahno grew up in the industrial and chess-friendly town Kramatorsk. As of 2005, she lives in Donetsk.

Lahno was the fifth seed for the 64-player knockout 2004 Women's World Chess Championship. 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, Lahno 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 for a full grandmaster norm in the process.

In May 2008, Lahno won the European Individual Women Chess Championships again in Plovdiv, 0.5 point ahead of the opponents of the 11-round open tournament.^[2]

On February 25, 2009 she married Robert Fontaine, French chess grandmaster and TV reporter.^[3]

References

External links

• Kateryna Lahno player profile at ChessGames.com
• FIDE rating card for Kateryna Lahno
• Ekaterina Lahno - winner of IV Women's 'North Urals Cup - 2006'
• ChessBase "Move over Judit, here comes Kateryna!"