6th Women's Chess Olympiad

The 6th Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE, took place on 15 September to 7 October 1974 in Medellín, Colombia.

Nona Gaprindashvili
Nana Alexandria
Irina Levitina
The winning Soviet Union team

Twenty-five nations took part in the women's Olympiad. From five preliminary groups the teams were split into three finals.

The Soviet Union won.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Preliminaries
  • Group 1: 1. Soviet Union, 2. Canada, 3. Austria, 4. Colombia, 5. Puerto Rico.
  • Group 2: 1. Romania, 2. Netherlands, 3. United States, 4. Japan, 5. Panama.
  • Group 3: 1. Hungary, 2. England, 3. Israel, 4. Brazil, 5. Monaco.
  • Group 4: 1. Yugoslavia, 2. Bulgaria, 3. Spain, 4. Finland, 5. Mexico.
  • Group 5: 1. Czechoslovakia, 2. West Germany, 3. Sweden, 4. Ireland, 5. Iraq.

Finals
Final A
#CountryPlayersAverage
rating		PointsMPPlayoff score
1 Soviet UnionNona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Irina Levitina238013½143
2 RomaniaElisabeta Polihroniade, Gertrude Baumstark, Margareta Teodorescu223313½141
3 BulgariaTatjana Lematschko, Antonina Georgieva, Venka Asenova22331314

Individual medals
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References
  1. Carruth, Gorton (17 September 1993). The encyclopedia of world facts and dates. HarperCollins Publishers – via Internet Archive. medellin 1976 chess women.
  2. "Chess Competitions, 1971–2010: An Annotated International Bibliography". McFarland. 21 January 2016 – via Google Books.
  3. Felice, Gino Di (11 September 2014). "Chess Results, 1975–1977: A Comprehensive Record with 872 Tournament Crosstables and 147 Match Scores, with Sources". McFarland – via Google Books.
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  6. "Yugoslav Survey". Jugoslavija Publishing House. 17 September 1991 – via Google Books.
  7. "The British Chess Magazine". Trubner & Company. 17 September 1977 – via Google Books.
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