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.

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. Since 1976 it has been held in the same place and at the same time as the open event.

Year	Event	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1957	1st Women's Chess Olympiad	Emmen, Netherlands	USSR 10½	Romania 10½	East Germany 10
1963	2nd Women's Chess Olympiad	Split, Yugoslavia	USSR 25	Yugoslavia 24½	East Germany 21
1966	3rd Women's Chess Olympiad	Oberhausen, West Germany	USSR 22	Romania 20½	East Germany 17
1969	4th Women's Chess Olympiad	Lublin, Poland	USSR 26	Hungary 20½	Czechoslovakia 19
1972	5th Women's Chess Olympiad	Skopje, Yugoslavia	USSR 11½	Romania 8	Hungary 8
1974	6th Women's Chess Olympiad	Medellín, Colombia	USSR 13½	Romania 13½	Bulgaria 13
1976	22nd Chess Olympiad *	Haifa, Israel	Israel 17	England 11½	Spain 11½
1978	23rd Chess Olympiad	Buenos Aires, Argentina	USSR 16	Hungary 11	West Germany 11
1980	24th Chess Olympiad	Valletta, Malta	USSR 32½	Hungary 32	Poland 26½
1982	25th Chess Olympiad	Lucerne, Switzerland	USSR 33	Romania 30	Hungary 26
1984	26th Chess Olympiad	Thessaloniki, Greece	USSR 32	Bulgaria 27½	Romania 27
1986	27th Chess Olympiad	Dubai, UAE	USSR 33½	Hungary 29	Romania 28
1988	28th Chess Olympiad	Thessaloniki, Greece	Hungary 33	USSR 32½	Yugoslavia 28½
1990	29th Chess Olympiad	Novi Sad, Yugoslavia	Hungary 35	USSR 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	USA 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	USA 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
2016	42nd Chess Olympiad	Baku, Azerbaijan

* In 1976 the USSR and other communist countries 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	Country	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	2	0	13
2	China	4	3	4	11
3	Georgia	4	1	2	7
4	Hungary	2	5	2	9
5	Russia	2	3	3	8
6	Ukraine	1	2	1	4
7	Israel	1	0	0	1
8	Romania	0	5	2	7
9	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
9	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
9	USA	0	1	1	2
12	England	0	1	0	1
13	East Germany	0	0	3	3
14	Poland	0	0	2	2
15	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
15	Spain	0	0	1	1
15	West Germany	0	0	1	1

See also

• Chess Olympiad

External links

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