Liudmyla Ivanytska

Liudmyla Ivanytska learned chess in Ivano-Frankivsk and trained with Vasyl Palahytskyi at the city's sports school. In 2023 she shared third and fourth place in the European girls' under-eighteen championship. That year she won Ukrainian girls' blitz titles in three age groups and the under-twenty rapid championship. These results earned her the 2023 Sozonov Award in the fourteen-to-sixteen age category. She later began studying computer science at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Outside chess she enjoys basketball and reading.