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 have won the event six times, Georgia – four times, Russia – three times and Ukraine – two times. It has also been won by Hungary led by three Polgár sisters (twice) and Israeli team fully composed of Soviet-born players (once in 1976 when it was boycotted by the Eastern Bloc).
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.
* In 1976 the Soviet Union and other Socialist states did not compete for political reasons.
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 |
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1 | Soviet Union | 11 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
2 | China | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
3 | Georgia | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
4 | Russia | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
5 | Hungary | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
6 | Ukraine | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
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 |
India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (18 entries) | 29 | 29 | 29 | 87 |
Boldface denotes active chess players and highest medal count among all players (including these who not included in these tables) per type.
Rank | Player | Country | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Nona Gaprindashvili | Soviet Union Georgia |
1963 | 1992 | 11 | 1 | – | 12 |
2 | Maia Chiburdanidze | Soviet Union Georgia |
1978 | 2008 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
3 | Nana Alexandria | Soviet Union | 1969 | 1986 | 6 | – | – | 6 |
4 | Nana Ioseliani | Soviet Union Georgia |
1980 | 2000 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
5 | Zhao Xue | China | 2002 | 2016 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
6 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Russia | 2002 | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
7 | Xie Jun | China | 1990 | 2004 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
8 | Zhu Chen | China | 1994 | 2002 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
9 | Nino Gurieli | Georgia | 1992 | 2000 | 3 | 1 | – | 4 |
Irina Levitina | Soviet Union | 1972 | 1988 | 3 | 1 | – | 4 |
The table shows players who have won at least 6 team medals in total at the Chess Olympiads.
Rank | Player | Country | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Maia Chiburdanidze | Soviet Union Georgia |
1978 | 2008 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
2 | Nona Gaprindashvili | Soviet Union Georgia |
1963 | 1992 | 11 | 1 | – | 12 |
3 | Nana Ioseliani | Soviet Union Georgia |
1980 | 2000 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
4 | Zhao Xue | China | 2002 | 2016 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
5 | Xie Jun | China | 1990 | 2004 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
6 | Anna Ushenina | Ukraine | 2006 | 2022 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
7 | Nana Alexandria | Soviet Union | 1969 | 1986 | 6 | – | – | 6 |
8 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Russia | 2002 | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
9 | Natalia Zhukova | Ukraine | 2006 | 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
10 | Mária Ivánka | Hungary | 1969 | 1986 | – | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Elisabeta Polihroniade | Romania | 1966 | 1986 | – | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Zsuzsa Verőci-Petronić | Hungary | 1969 | 1986 | – | 4 | 2 | 6 |
The best individual results in order of overall percentage are:
Rank |
Player | Country | Ol. | Gms. | + | = | – | % | Individual medals |
Number of ind. medals |
Team medals | Number of team medals |
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1 | Nona Gaprindashvili | Soviet Union (11) Georgia (1) |
12 | 128 | 94 | 26 | 8 | 83.6 | 8 – 3 – 0 | 11 | 11 – 1 – 0 | 12 |
2 | Nadezhda Kosintseva | Russia | 5 | 51 | 36 | 13 | 2 | 83.3 | 4 – 0 – 0 | 4 | 2 – 1 – 1 | 4 |
3 | Pia Cramling | Sweden | 9 | 107 | 71 | 33 | 3 | 81.8 | 3 – 2 – 2 | 7 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 |
4 | Zsófia Polgár | Hungary | 4 | 48 | 32 | 13 | 3 | 80.2 | 2 – 0 – 1 | 3 | 2 – 1 – 0 | 3 |
5 | Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant | Soviet Union (1) Georgia (4) Scotland (3) |
8 | 86 | 58 | 19 | 9 | 78.5 | 2 – 0 – 1 | 3 | 2 – 1 – 1 | 4 |
6 | Wang Lei | China | 4 | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 78.1 | 1 – 0 – 0 | 1 | 2 – 1 – 1 | 4 |
7 | Zsuzsa (Susan) Polgár | Hungary (3) United States (1) |
4 | 56 | 31 | 25 | 0 | 77.7 | 1 – 2 – 1 | 4 | 2 – 2 – 0 | 4 |
8 | Valentina Gunina | Russia | 5 | 46 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 76.1 | 2 – 0 – 0 | 2 | 3 – 0 – 0 | 3 |
9 | Nana Alexandria | Soviet Union | 6 | 54 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 75.9 | 4 – 0 – 0 | 4 | 6 – 0 – 0 | 6 |
10 | Alisa Galliamova (Galliamova-Ivanchuk) |
Soviet Union (1) Ukraine (1) Russia (3) |
5 | 57 | 39 | 8 | 10 | 75.4 | 0 – 2 – 0 | 2 | 1 – 2 – 2 | 5 |
11 | Zhao Xue | China | 8 | 81 | 49 | 24 | 8 | 75.3 | 3 – 0 – 0 | 3 | 3 – 3 – 1 | 7 |
12 | Maia Chiburdanidze | Soviet Union (7) Georgia (8) |
15 | 167 | 89 | 73 | 5 | 75.1 | 4 – 2 – 3 | 9 | 9 – 3 – 1 | 13 |
13 | Iman Hasan Al-Rufaye | Iraq | 5 | 48 | 31 | 10 | 7 | 75.0 | 1 – 2 – 0 | 3 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 |
14 | Hou Yifan | China | 6 | 61 | 34 | 23 | 4 | 74.6 | 1 – 3 – 2 | 6 | 1 – 3 – 1 | 5 |
15 | Nana Ioseliani | Soviet Union (2) Georgia (6) |
8 | 88 | 49 | 32 | 7 | 73.9 | 2 – 2 – 1 | 5 | 5 – 1 – 1 | 7 |
16 | Zhu Chen | China | 5 | 59 | 34 | 19 | 6 | 73.7 | 2 – 1 – 0 | 3 | 3 – 1 – 1 | 5 |
17 | Nino Batsiashvili | Georgia | 5 | 45 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 73.3 | 1 – 1 – 0 | 2 | 0 – 1 – 1 | 2 |
18 | Zsuzsa Verőci-Petronić | Hungary | 10 | 118 | 62 | 48 | 8 | 72.9 | 0 – 3 – 2 | 5 | 0 – 4 – 2 | 6 |
19 | Sarasadat Khademalsharieh | Iran | 4 | 40 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 72.5 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 |
20 | Edith Keller-Herrmann | East Germany | 4 | 49 | 26 | 19 | 4 | 72.4 | 0 – 1 – 1 | 2 | 0 – 0 – 3 | 3 |