page_title: Alexandra Kosteniuk
section_title: 2001
hierarchical_section_title: Alexandra Kosteniuk / Chess career / 2001
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Alexandra Kosteniuk at Bled 2002 Slovenščina: sl:Alexandra Kosteniuk
context_page_description: Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two time Russian Women's Chess Champion. Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014, the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017, and the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017.
context_section_description: In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship and was defeated by Zhu Chen.
caption: Kosteniuk at the 35th Chess Olympiad, Bled 2002
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