Women's Chess Olympiad

The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympiad has been incorporated within Chess Olympiad events, with simultaneous women's and open tournaments.

The Soviet Union has won it the most often: 11 times. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, China and Georgia have won the event four times each. It has also been won by Hungary, Ukraine and Israel (one year when it was boycotted by the Eastern Bloc).

Results[]

From 1957 to 1974 the Women's Olympiad was a separate event (with except of the 1972 event). Since 1976 it has been held in the same place and at the same time as the open event.

Year	Event	Host	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1957	1st Women's Chess Olympiad	Emmen, Netherlands	Soviet Union 10½	Romania 10½	East Germany 10
1963	2nd Women's Chess Olympiad	Split, Yugoslavia	Soviet Union 25	Yugoslavia 24½	East Germany 21
1966	3rd Women's Chess Olympiad	Oberhausen, West Germany	Soviet Union 22	Romania 20½	East Germany 17
1969	4th Women's Chess Olympiad	Lublin, Poland	Soviet Union 26	Hungary 20½	Czechoslovakia 19
1972	20th Chess Olympiad	Skopje, Yugoslavia	Soviet Union 11½	Romania 8	Hungary 8
1974	6th Women's Chess Olympiad	Medellín, Colombia	Soviet Union 13½	Romania 13½	Bulgaria 13
1976	22nd Chess Olympiad *	Haifa, Israel	Israel 17	England 11½	Spain 11½
1978	23rd Chess Olympiad	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Soviet Union 16	Hungary 11	West Germany 11
1980	24th Chess Olympiad	Valletta, Malta	Soviet Union 32½	Hungary 32	Poland 26½
1982	25th Chess Olympiad	Lucerne, Switzerland	Soviet Union 33	Romania 30	Hungary 26
1984	26th Chess Olympiad	Thessaloniki, Greece	Soviet Union 32	Bulgaria 27½	Romania 27
1986	27th Chess Olympiad	Dubai, UAE	Soviet Union 33½	Hungary 29	Romania 28
1988	28th Chess Olympiad	Thessaloniki, Greece	Hungary 33	Soviet Union 32½	Yugoslavia 28½
1990	29th Chess Olympiad	Novi Sad, Yugoslavia	Hungary 35	Soviet Union 35	China 29
1992	30th Chess Olympiad	Manila, Philippines	Georgia 30½	Ukraine 29	China 28½
1994	31st Chess Olympiad	Moscow, Russia	Georgia 32	Hungary 31	China 27
1996	32nd Chess Olympiad	Yerevan, Armenia	Georgia 30	China 28½	Russia 28½
1998	33rd Chess Olympiad	Elista, Russia	China 29	Russia 27	Georgia 27
2000	34th Chess Olympiad	Istanbul, Turkey	China 32	Georgia 31	Russia 28½
2002	35th Chess Olympiad	Bled, Slovenia	China 29½	Russia 29½	Poland 28
2004	36th Chess Olympiad	Calvià, Spain	China 31	United States 28	Russia 27½
2006	37th Chess Olympiad	Turin, Italy	Ukraine 29½	Russia 28	China 27½
2008	38th Chess Olympiad	Dresden, Germany	Georgia 18	Ukraine 18	United States 17
2010	39th Chess Olympiad	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	Russia 22	China 18	Georgia 16
2012	40th Chess Olympiad	Istanbul, Turkey	Russia 19	China 19	Ukraine 18
2014	41st Chess Olympiad	Tromsø, Norway	Russia 20	China 18	Ukraine 18
2016	42nd Chess Olympiad	Baku, Azerbaijan	China 20	Poland 17	Ukraine 17
2018	43rd Chess Olympiad	Batumi, Georgia	China 18	Ukraine 18	Georgia 17
2022	44th Chess Olympiad	Moscow, Russia

* In 1976 the Soviet Union and other socialist states did not compete for political reasons.

Total team ranking[]

The table contains the women's teams ranked by the medals won at the Chess Olympiad, not including the unofficial events, ranked by the number of first place medals, ties broken by second-place medals, etc.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	2	0	13
2	China	6	4	4	14
3	Georgia	4	1	3	8
4	Russia	3	3	3	9
5	Hungary	2	5	2	9
6	Ukraine	1	3	3	7
7	Israel	1	0	0	1
8	Romania	0	5	2	7
9	Poland	0	1	2	3
10	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	United States	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
13	England	0	1	0	1
14	East Germany	0	0	3	3
15	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 nations)		28	28	28	84

See also[]

• Chess Olympiad
• Correspondence Chess Olympiad
• European Chess Club Cup
• European Team Chess Championship
• Mind Sports Organisation
• Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World
• Women's World Chess Championship
• World Chess Championship
• World Mind Sports Games
• World Team Chess Championship

External links[]

• http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.olimpbase.org%2Folympiads%2Fwomen_results.html