Chess Olympiad 2024: India’s Women’s team clinch gold by beating Azerbaijan at 45th FIDE final round

India's Women's team clinch gold by beating Azerbaijan at Chess Olympiad 2024 45th FIDE. Congratulations to Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, Tania Sachdev and Abhijit Kunte.

Written by: Akshat Jain Edited by: Akshat Jain

Updated: September 22, 2024, 8:01 PM IST

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India's Women Chess Team at Chess Olympiad 2024 45th FIDE.

New Delhi:  India’s Women’s team clinch gold by beating Azerbaijan at Chess Olympiad 2024 45th FIDE. Congratulations to Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, Tania Sachdev and Abhijit Kunte (Captain)!

🇮🇳India wins the 45th FIDE Women’s #ChessOlympiad! 🏆 ♟

Congratulations to Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, Tania Sachdev and Abhijit Kunte (Captain)! 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/zsNde0tspo

— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) September 22, 2024

Harika and Vantika register wins in their respective boards as India hands Azerbaijan a 3.5-0.5 loss in the final round.

Everyone were waiting for the match result of KAZ vs USA in the women’s section. The tiebreaker calculations were complex, it would be a very good move for India if both remaining boards were drawn finally, the results came up and it was a draw of KAZ vs USA and which resulted in India’s favour and India clinched another gold in the 2024 Olympiad.