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 trophy for the winning women's team is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in honor of the first Women's World Chess Champion (1927–1944). The Soviet Union has won it the most often: 11 times. Before the break-up of the Soviet Union, 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). In the post-Soviet era, China have won the event six times, Georgia – four times, Russia – three times, Ukraine – two times and India – once.
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.
Soviet Union and other Socialist states did not compete for political reasons.This trophy was created by FIDE in 1997 and named after Nona Gaprindashvili, the former women's World Champion (1962–1978). The trophy is awarded to the team that has the best overall performance across the open and women's divisions.
Russia won this trophy six times, China – three times, India and Ukraine – two times each.
| Year | First | Second | Third | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |  China |  Georgia | ||
| 2000 |  Ukraine | Georgia | ||
| 2002 | China |  Hungary | ||
| 2004 |  United States |  Armenia | ||
| 2006 | China | Ukraine | Armenia | |
| 2008 | Ukraine | Armenia | United States | |
| 2010 | China | Ukraine | ||
| 2012 | China | Ukraine | ||
| 2014 | China | Ukraine | ||
| 2016 | Ukraine | United States | China | |
| 2018 | China | Ukraine | ||
| 2022 |  India | United States | India | |
| 2024 | India | United States | Armenia |
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.
The table contains teams ranked by total number of medals won at the Chess Olympiad (not including the online or unofficial events) in the Open event (since 1927) and Women's event (since 1957), ranked by the number of first-place medals, ties broken by second-place medals, etc.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1963 | 1992 | 11 | 1 | – | 12 | ||
| 2 | 1978 | 2008 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 13 | ||
| 3 | 1969 | 1986 | 6 | – | – | 6 | ||
| 4 | 1980 | 2000 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||
| 5 | Zhao Xue | 2002 | 2016 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| 6 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2002 | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| 7 | 1990 | 2004 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 1994 | 2002 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 1992 | 2000 | 3 | 1 | – | 4 | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1978 | 2008 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 13 | ||
| 2 | 1963 | 1992 | 11 | 1 | – | 12 | ||
| 3 | 1980 | 2000 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||
| 4 | Zhao Xue | 2002 | 2016 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| 5 | 1990 | 2004 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| 6 | Anna Ushenina | 2006 | 2022 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| 7 | 1969 | 1986 | 6 | – | – | 6 | ||
| 8 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2002 | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| 9 | Natalia Zhukova | 2006 | 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| 10 | 1969 | 1986 | – | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 1966 | 1986 | – | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (11) Georgia (1) | 12 | 128 | 94 | 26 | 8 | 83.6 | 8 – 3 – 0 | 11 | 11 – 1 – 0 | 12 | ||
| 2 | 5 | 51 | 36 | 13 | 2 | 83.3 | 4 – 0 – 0 | 4 | 2 – 1 – 1 | 4 | |||
| 3 | 10 | 118 | 79 | 35 | 4 | 81.8 | 3 – 2 – 2 | 7 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 48 | 32 | 13 | 3 | 80.2 | 2 – 0 – 1 | 3 | 2 – 1 – 0 | 3 | |||
| 5 | 4 | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 78.1 | 1 – 0 – 0 | 1 | 2 – 1 – 1 | 4 | |||
| 6 | Hungary (3) United States (1) | 4 | 56 | 31 | 25 | 0 | 77.7 | 1 – 2 – 1 | 4 | 2 – 2 – 0 | 4 | ||
| 7 | (1) Georgia (4) (4) | 9 | 95 | 62 | 23 | 10 | 77.4 | 2 – 0 – 1 | 3 | 2 – 1 – 1 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 5 | 46 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 76.1 | 2 – 0 – 0 | 2 | 3 – 0 – 0 | 3 | |||
| 9 | 6 | 54 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 75.9 | 4 – 0 – 0 | 4 | 6 – 0 – 0 | 6 | |||
| 10 | (1) Ukraine (1) (3) | 5 | 57 | 39 | 8 | 10 | 75.4 | 0 – 2 – 0 | 2 | 1 – 2 – 2 | 5 | ||
| 11 | 8 | 81 | 49 | 24 | 8 | 75.3 | 3 – 0 – 0 | 3 | 3 – 3 – 1 | 7 | |||
| 12 | (7) Georgia (8) | 15 | 167 | 89 | 73 | 5 | 75.1 | 4 – 2 – 3 | 9 | 9 – 3 – 1 | 13 | ||
| 13 | 5 | 48 | 31 | 10 | 7 | 75.0 | 1 – 2 – 0 | 3 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 | |||
| 14 | 6 | 61 | 34 | 23 | 4 | 74.6 | 1 – 3 – 2 | 6 | 1 – 3 – 1 | 5 | |||
| 15 | 6 | 55 | 33 | 16 | 6 | 74.5 | 1 – 1 – 0 | 2 | 0 – 1 – 1 | 2 | |||
| 16 | (4) Spain (1) | 5 | 49 | 28 | 17 | 4 | 74.5 | 0 – 1 – 0 | 1 | 0 – 0 – 0 | 0 | ||
| 17 | (2) Georgia (6) | 8 | 88 | 49 | 32 | 7 | 73.9 | 2 – 2 – 1 | 5 | 5 – 1 – 1 | 7 | ||
| 18 | 5 | 59 | 34 | 19 | 6 | 73.7 | 2 – 1 – 0 | 3 | 3 – 1 – 1 | 5 | |||
| 19 | 10 | 118 | 62 | 48 | 8 | 72.9 | 0 – 3 – 2 | 5 | 0 – 4 – 2 | 6 | |||
| 20 | 4 | 49 | 26 | 19 | 4 | 72.4 | 0 – 1 – 1 | 2 | 0 – 0 – 3 | 3 |
Romania
13
Israel
Poland
Kazakhstan