Vadim Malakhatko
Vadim Malakhatko | |
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Malakhatko in 2019 | |
| Full name | Вадим Малахатко |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Born | 22 March 1977 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 5 June 2023 (aged 46) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Title | Grandmaster (1999) |
| Peak rating | 2633 (October 2008) |
| Peak ranking | No. 98 (October 2008) |
Vadim Volodymyrovych Malakhatko (Ukrainian: Вадим Володимирович Малахатько; 22 March 1977 – 5 June 2023) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship. In 2000, he won with the Ukrainian team a bronze medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
Malakhatko died in Kyiv of a heart attack on 5 June 2023, at the age of 46.