Matrena Nogovitsyna

Matrena Stepanovna Nogovitsyna (; born November 6, 1991) is a Russian player in the International draughts who won the women's world champion title in 2021. She was unable to defend this title due to the exclusion of Russian players from international events. She has been a champion player of Russia since 2004. Matrena Nogovitsyna is a Women's International grandmaster (GMIF). She is trained by Alexander Georgiev.

Matrena Nogovitsyna started to play draughts from eight years old. She emerged as runner-up at the 2011 Women's World Draughts Championship and was placed third at the 2010 Women's Draughts Championship. She is a two time women's draughts champion in blitz and three time women's draughts champion in rapid. She too was ranked as first at Women's European Draughts Championship (2018) and on 3 occasions third (2004, 2008 and 2016).

In 2021 she won a gold medal at Women's World Draughts Championship. It is her first world champion title.

Participation in World and European Championships Year Championship Host Competition Results Place 2006 European Bovec tournament +2 =6 -1 10 2007 World Yakutsk tournament +4 =9 -2 8 2008 European Tallinn tournament +4 =4 -1 3 2010 European Sępólno Krajeńskie tournament +3 =5 -1 4 2010 World Ufa tournament +0 =9 -1 3 2011 World Rovno tournament +6 =7 -0 2 2012 European Emmen tournament +1 =8 -0 14 2013 World Ulaanbaatar tournament +4 =9 -2 7 2014 European Tallinn tournament +3 =5 -1 10 2015 World Wuhan tournament +4 =9 -2 7 2016 European İzmir tournament +3 =6 -0 3 2018 European Moscow tournament +3 =6 -0 1 2021 World Tallinn tournament +9 =6 -0 1