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Anastasia Sorokina was born on 26 January, 1980 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union, is a Belarusian chess player. Discover Anastasia Sorokina's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?
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44 years old |
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Aquarius |
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26 January 1980 |
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26 January |
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Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
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Soviet Union
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Anastasia Sorokina Height, Weight & Measurements
At 44 years old, Anastasia Sorokina height not available right now. We will update Anastasia Sorokina's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Anastasia Sorokina Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Anastasia Sorokina worth at the age of 44 years old? Anastasia Sorokina’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. She is from Soviet Union. We have estimated Anastasia Sorokina's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Anastasia Sorokina (Анастасія Сарокіна; born 26 January 1980 in Minsk, Soviet Union) is an Australian (ex- Belarusian) chess player, arbiter, organiser and official.
She won the Belarus Girls' Chess Championship in her age group eight times (in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000).
Sorokina represented Belarus in two Chess Olympiads in Yerevan 1996, and Elista 1998.
She came second in the Belarus Women's Chess Championship in 1998.
Her best result was in 1998 when she scored 5.5/9 for Belarus on the reserve board.
She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2001 and is an International Arbiter (2002), FIDE Trainer (2005) and International Organiser (2018).
Sorokina is a Women International Master (WIM) since 2001.
She has been an arbiter for the Chess Olympiads in Bled 2002, Istanbul 2012, Tromso 2014, Baku 2016 and a number of FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 events, the as well as several other major FIDE tournaments.
She has also worked as Chief and Deputy Chief Arbiter in some of the most famous events such as London Chess Classic, Norway Chess and Cairns Cup.
Sorokina moved to Australia in 2003, and worked as a chess coach in the Queensland School of Chess, and then Chess Kids in Melbourne for a year but later returned to Belarus.
She then opened her own chess coaching business "Chess Academy" for several years.
She represented Australia in the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià 2004.
She was also Chief Arbiter in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2016, 2018 & 2023 and in the Candidates Tournament 2022.
From 2017 to 2020 she headed the Belarusian Chess Federation.
In this short time, much has been done to develop and popularize chess giving a new life to the national chess championships and attracting major international events such as the European Individual Chess Championship and the first ever World Rapid & Blitz Cadet Chess Championships which have evolved to an event with massive participation.
At the same time, the Youth Olympic Games, Belarus team shared the prestigious 3-4th place with the Chinese team.
She was elected as FIDE Vice- president (2018 - 2022) in the World Chess Federation and she is Chairwoman of the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess since 2022.
Sorokina is the niece of Viktor Kupreichik, who was the first ever Grandmaster in Belarus.
This inspired her to learn chess from a young age and devote her whole life in chess, progressing from a chess player to a chess official.
In the fall of 2018, Anastasia Sorokina was elected to the post of FIDE Vice President, and Belarus won the right to host the Chess Olympiad in Minsk in 2022.
In the most recent years, she is Chair of the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess and has initiated many important FIDE Social Projects "Infinite Chess" (Chess for kids with autism spectrum disorder) and "Chess for Protection: Girls Club" chess for refugees.
For both projects, special programs were developed under Sorokina's leadership and she is currently also working in social corporate responsibility field and gender equality.
Following the Presidential elections fraud in Belarus in August 2020 and violence against civilians that followed the nationwide protests Sorokina openly expressed her political opinion to the chess community and international media.
Due to those statements and her public appearance in independent media, a criminal prosecution on false accusations and fabricated evidence was initiated against Sorokina in Belarus.
She was forced to leave the country with her daughter and husband.
She is now living in Poland and represents the Australian Chess Federation.
