| Pavel Eljanov | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Павло Єльянов |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Born | May 10, 1983 Kharkiv, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2683 (No. 60 in the September 2011 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2761 (September 2010) |
Pavel Eljanov (born 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at Chess Olympiads.[1]
In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine.[2] Eljanov won the Corus B 2007 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland with a score of 9/13. This result enabled him to qualify for the category 20 tournament Corus A 2008.
Eljanov has made steady progress up the FIDE world rankings, and on the September 2010 FIDE Elo rating list, Eljanov had a rating of 2761, making him number 1 in Ukraine and number 6 in the world. In May 2010, he won the Astrakhan FIDE Grand Prix with a score of 8/13.[3]