Inna Gaponenko (also known as Inna Yanovska; born 22 June 1976) is a
Ukrainian
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chess
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player holding the titles of
International Master
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(IM) and
Woman Grandmaster
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(WGM).
Career
She won the
European under-16 girls' championship in 1992 and the
world under-18 girls' championship in 1994. In 2002 Gaponenko won the European Women's
Rapid Chess
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Championship in
Antalya
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. She won the
Ukrainian women's championship in 2008.
Gaponenko played for the Ukrainian national team at the biennal Women's
Chess Olympiad
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s from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2014. She won team gold medal in 2006, silver in 2008, bronze in 2012 and 2014, and individual gold in 2010 for the best performance on board 4. In the Women's
World Team Chess Championship
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she took team gold in 2013, bronze in 2007 and 2009, and two individual gold medals (in 2007 and 2009). She played also for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 2013 Women's
European Team Chess Championship
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in
Warsaw
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.
Inna Yanovska
team chess record at OlimpBase.org
References
External links
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1976 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kherson
Chess International Masters
Chess woman grandmasters
Ukrainian female chess players
World Youth Chess Champions
Chess Olympiad competitors
Place of birth missing (living people)
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