Matrena Stepanovna Nogovitsyna (; born November 6, 1991) is a Russian player in the

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who won the women's world champion title in 2021. She was unable to defend this title due to the exclusion of Russian players from international events. She has been a champion player of

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since 2004. Matrena Nogovitsyna is a Women's International grandmaster (GMIF). She is trained by Alexander Georgiev. Matrena Nogovitsyna started to play draughts from eight years old. She emerged as runners-up at the 2011

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and was placed third at the 2010 Women's Draughts Championship. She is a two time women's draughts champion in blitz and three time women's draughts champion in rapid. She too was ranked as first at Women's European Draughts Championship (2018) and on 3 occasions third (2004, 2008 and 2016). In 2021 she won a gold medal at

. It is her first world champion title.

Participation in World and European Championships

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KNDB {{DEFAULTSORT:Nogovitsyna, Matrena 1991 births Living people Russian draughts players Players of international draughts Sportspeople from Sakha