GMVolodymyr Onyshchuk

Volodymyr Onyshchuk was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1991. He won the European under-10 championship in 2001. Further youth medals followed: European under-12 silver in 2003 and world under-16 silver in 2006. He became an international master in 2005. In 2006, he helped Ukraine win the World Youth Under-16 Olympiad in Ağrı.

His early open-tournament victories included the Nabokov Memorial in Kyiv and an event in Kharkiv. He shared first at Warsaw's Najdorf Memorial in 2008. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2012. He shared first with Li Chao at Cappelle-la-Grande in 2015 and also won the Metz Open that year. In 2017, he won the Riga Technical University Open. Playing for Ukraine at the 2022 Olympiad, he earned an individual bronze medal on the reserve board.