Given the question: Elena Sedina (Russian: ) (born June 1 1968 in Kiev Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-Italian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and open International Master (IM). She has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship the Australian Open Chess Championship and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete