Editing 36th Chess Olympiad (section)

==Women's event<span class="anchor" id="Women's results"></span>==

The women's division was contested by 87 teams representing 84 nations. Spain, as hosts, fielded two teams, whilst the ''[[International Braille Chess Association]]'' (IBCA) and the ''International Physically Disabled Chess Association'' (IPCA) each provided one squad.

China, led by first board [[Xie Jun]] (ex-World Champion) and second board [[Xu Yuhua]] (future champion), entered the competition as top [[seed (sports)|seed]] and defending triple champions and quickly took the lead, conceding just two [[draw (chess)|draws]] in their first five matches. They then defeated the silver and bronze medallists from the [[35th Chess Olympiad|previous Olympiad]], Russia and Poland (each 2–1), in the sixth and eighth rounds, respectively. Eventually they carried a six-point lead into a tenth round match with second placed United States.

[[Susan Polgar]] (another ex-World Champion), who entered the tournament as the second highest-rated player and achieved the best performance rating of all, drew Xie Jun, while [[Irina Krush]] won her second board game against Xu Yuhua. A draw by [[Anna Zatonskih]] against [[Zhao Xue]] gave the Americans a 2–1 win over the Chinese team.  In rounds eleven and twelve, China drew Hungary and lost to [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], whilst the US team defeated [[Slovakia]] and then scored a 2½-½ victory over Hungary, drawing within three points of China with two rounds remaining.  China, though, defeated sixth-seed India and 12th-seed [[Slovakia]] in the final two rounds, scoring four points to preserve what was ultimately a three-point win and to clinch the [[Vera Menchik]] Trophy for a fourth consecutive time.

Second-seed Russia were led by [[Nadezhda Kosintseva]], who won top honours on the first reserve board for scoring 10 points in 12 rounds. The Russians were only in eighth place after ten rounds but had advanced to fourth place entering the penultimate round, where they faced [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], who they trailed by half a point. Although first board [[Maya Chiburdanidze]] (ex-World Champion) and second board [[Nana Dzagnidze]], who both scored 8½ points for their team over the event, drew their matches, third board [[Lela Javakhishvili]] lost to Kosintseva, giving the Russian team a half-point lead over Georgia; although Georgia defeated [[Ukraine]] 2½-½ in the final round, Russia managed to secure two points against France, equalling Georgia's total and winning the bronze medals on [[tiebreaker|tie-breaks]].

Newly crowned [[Women's World Chess Championship|World Champion]] [[Antoaneta Stefanova]] disappointed as captain of the [[Bulgaria]]n team, scoring only 5½ points in 11 games. Bulgaria eventually finished in 14th place.

:{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Country !! Players !! Average<br/>rating !! Points !! Buchholz
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 || '''{{flagu|China}}''' || '''[[Xie Jun]], [[Xu Yuhua]], [[Zhao Xue]], [[Huang Qian]]''' || '''2514''' || '''31''' || 
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 || {{flagu|United States}} || [[Susan Polgar|Polgar]], [[Irina Krush|Krush]], [[Anna Zatonskih|Zatonskih]], [[Jennifer Shahade|Shahade]] || 2490 || 28 || 
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || {{flagu|Russia}} || [[Alexandra Kosteniuk|Kosteniuk]], [[Tatiana Kosintseva|T. Kosintseva]], [[Ekaterina Kovalevskaya|Kovalevskaya]], [[Nadezhda Kosintseva|N. Kosintseva]] || 2491 || 27½ || 346.0
|-
| 4 || {{GEO}} || [[Maia Chiburdanidze|Chiburdanidze]], [[Nana Dzagnidze|Dzagnidze]], [[Lela Javakhishvili|Javakhishvili]], [[Maia Lomineishvili|Lomineishvili]] || 2470 || 27½ || 339.0
|-
| 5 || {{flagu|France}} || [[Almira Skripchenko|Skripchenko]], [[Marie Sebag]], [[Silvia Collas]], [[Sophie Milliet]] || 2417 || 25½ || 
|-
| 6 || {{HUN}} || [[Ildikó Mádl|Mádl]], [[Szidonia Vajda|Vajda]], [[Anita Gara|Gara]], [[Nikoletta Lakos|Lakos]] || 2376 || 25 || 348.5
|-
| 7 || {{SVK}} || [[Eva Repkova|Repkova]], [[Regina Pokorná|Pokorná]], [[Zuzana Hagarova|Hagarova]], [[Zuzana Cibičková|Borošová]] || 2377 || 25 || 337.0
|-
| 8 || {{flagu|England}} || [[Harriet Hunt|Hunt]], [[Jovanka Houska|Houska]], [[Heather Richards|Richards]], [[Melanie Buckley|Buckley]] || 2293 || 25 || 334.5
|-
| 9 || {{flagu|India}} || [[Humpy Koneru]], [[Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi]], [[Dronavalli Harika]], [[Nisha Mohota]] || 2435 || 24½ || 352.0
|-
| 10 || {{flagu|Poland}} || [[Iweta Radziewicz|Radziewicz]], [[Monika Soćko|Soćko]], [[Joanna Dworakowska|Dworakowska]], [[Marta Michna|Zielinska]] || 2428 || 24½ || 340.0
|}
:{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! # !! Country !! Average<br/>rating !! Points !! Buchholz !! MP
|-
| 11 || {{ARM}} || 2374 || 24½ || 330.5 || 
|-
| 12 || {{flagu|Netherlands}} || 2372 || 24½ || 317.5 || 
|-
| 13 || {{LTU}} || 2311 || 24 || 329.5 || 
|-
| 14 || {{BUL}} || 2410 || 24 || 329.0 || 
|-
| 15 || {{flagu|Sweden}} || 2301 || 24 || 327.0 || 
|-
| 16 || {{flagcountry|SCG}} || 2406 || 24 || 324.5 || 
|-
| 17 || {{flagu|Germany}} || 2365 || 24 || 323.5 || 
|-
| 18 || {{UKR}} || 2456 || 23½ || 342.0 || 
|-
| 19 || {{SLO}} || 2288 || 23½ || 325.5 || 
|-
| 20 || {{ROM}} || 2408 || 23½ || 318.5 || 
|-
| 21 || {{VIE}} || 2308 || 23½ || 317.0 || 
|-
| 22 || {{AZE}} || 2317 || 23 || 325.0 || 
|-
| 23 || {{LAT}} || 2294 || 23 || 323.0 || 
|-
| 24 || {{CUB}} || 2303 || 23 || 321.0 || 
|-
| 25 || {{ISR}} || 2247 || 23 || 320.5 || 
|-
| 26 || {{MDA}} || 2296 || 23 || 313.5 || 
|-
| 27 || {{flagcountry|BLR|1995}} || 2278 || 23 || 308.0 || 
|-
| 28 || {{CZE}} || 2308 || 22½ || 313.5 || 
|-
| 29 || {{GRE}} || 2343 || 22½ || 311.5 || 
|-
| 30 || {{ARG}} || 2274 || 22½ || 302.0 || 
|-
| 31 || {{flagu|Switzerland}} || 2250 || 22½ || 298.0 || 
|-
| 32 || {{UZB}} || 2235 || 22½ || 293.0 || 
|-
| 33 || {{KAZ}} || 2317 || 22 || 315.5 || 
|-
| 34 || {{IRI}} || 2208 || 22 || 313.5 || 
|-
| 35 || {{MGL}} || 2263 || 22 || 313.0 || 
|-
| 36 || {{EST}} || 2229 || 22 || 290.0 || 
|-
| 37 || {{COL}} || 2115 || 21½ || 303.0 || 
|-
| 38 || {{NOR}} || 2149 || 21½ || 302.5 || 
|-
| 39 || {{CRO}} || 2243 || 21½ || 299.5 || 
|-
| 40 || {{MYS}} || 2084 || 21½ || 299.0 || 
|-
| 41 || {{flagu|Canada}} || 2123 || 21½ || 277.0 || 
|-
| 42 || {{FIN}} || 2144 || 21 || 299.0 || 
|-
| 43 || {{flagu|Spain}} || 2242 || 21 || 297.0 || 
|-
| 44 || {{flagu|Spain}} "B" || 2187 || 21 || 296.5 || 
|-
| 45 || {{BIH}} || 2146 || 21 || 293.0 || 
|-
| 46 || {{flagu|Italy}} || 2213 || 21 || 292.0 || 
|-
| 47 || {{flagu|Australia}} || 2243 || 20½ || 306.0 || 
|-
| 48 || {{PHI}} || 1940 || 20½ || 295.0 || 
|-
| 49 || {{POR}} || 2124 || 20½ || 292.0 || 
|-
| 50 || {{flag|Venezuela|1930}} || 2147 || 20½ || 288.5 || 
|-
| 51 || {{ISL}} || 2148 || 20½ || 288.0 || 
|-
| 52 || {{WAL}} || 1975 || 20½ || 285.0 || 
|-
| 53 || {{TUR}} || 2082 || 20½ || 283.5 || 
|-
| 54 || {{flagu|Brazil}} || 2072 || 20½ || 282.5 || 
|-
| 55 || {{AUT}} || 2122 || 20 || 292.0 || 
|-
| 56 || {{MKD}} || 2002 || 20 || 288.5 || 
|-
| 57 || {{flagu|Mexico}} || 2134 || 20 || 281.5 || 
|-
| 58 || {{KGZ}} || 1760 || 20 || 279.0 || 
|-
| 59 || {{INA}} || 1775 || 20 || 277.5 || 
|-
| 60 || {{GUA}} || 1748 || 20 || 276.0 || 
|-
| 61 || {{PER}} || 2138 || 20 || 274.5 || 
|-
| 62 || {{ALB}} || 1749 || 20 || 265.0 || 
|-
| 63 || {{ECU}} || 2224 || 19½ || 295.0 || 
|-
| 64 || {{DEN}} || 2133 || 19½ || 289.0 || 
|-
| 65 || {{LIB}} || 1942 || 19½ || 282.0 || 
|-
| 66 || IPCA || 2080 || 19½ || 270.0 || 
|-
| 67 || {{flag|Iraq|2004}} || 1704 || 19½ || 229.5 || 
|-
| 68 || {{flagu|South Africa}} || 1875 || 19 || 291.0 || 
|-
| 69 || {{BAN}} || 2120 || 19 || 276.5 || 
|-
| 70 || {{TJK}} || 1600 || 19 || 261.5 || 
|-
| 71 || {{BOL}} || 1763 || 19 || 259.0 || 
|-
| 72 || {{CRC}} || 1764 || 19 || 226.5 || 
|-
| 73 || {{BOT}} || 1884 || 19 || 220.5 || 
|-
| 74 || {{LUX}} || 1981 || 18½ || 292.5 || 
|-
| 75 || [[International Braille Chess Association|IBCA]] || 1875 || 18½ || 257.0 || 
|-
| 76 || {{PUR}} || 1878 || 18½ || 231.5 || 
|-
| 77 || {{DOM}} || 2023 || 18 || 275.5 || 
|-
| 78 || {{flagu|New Zealand}} || 1899 || 18 || 242.0 || 
|-
| 79 || {{SRI}} || 1600 || 18 || 233.0 || 
|-
| 80 || {{IRL}} || 1891 || 17½ ||  || 
|-
| 81 || {{FIJ}} || 1600 || 16½ ||  || 
|-
| 82 || {{flag|Libya|1977}} || 1695 || 13½ ||  || 
|-
| 83 || {{flagu|Japan}} || 1716 || 12½ ||  || 
|-
| 84 || {{TRI}} || 1600 || 12 || 209.0 || 
|-
| 85 || {{HON}} || 1600 || 12 || 206.5 || 
|-
| 86 || {{KEN}} || 1600 || 11 ||  || 
|-
| 87 || {{VIR}} || 1600 || 8 ||  || 
|}

===Group prizes===

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Group Prizes
! Group !! Seeding<br/>range !! Team !! Seed !! Overall<br/>finish
|-
| A || 1–17 || {{GEO}} || 4 || 4
|-
| B || 18–34 || {{flagu|England}} || 27 || 8
|-
| C || 35–51 || {{UZB}} || 37 || 32
|-
| D || 52–69 || {{COL}} || 55 || 37
|-
| E || 70–87 || {{KGZ}} || 75 || 58
|}

===Individual medals===

* [[Performance rating (chess)|Performance rating]]: {{flagicon|USA}} [[Susan Polgar]] 2622
* Board 1: {{flagicon|LTU}} [[Viktorija Čmilytė]] 8½ / 11 = 77.3%
* Board 2: {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Szidonia Vajda]] and {{flagicon|ROM}} [[Corina Peptan]] 9 / 12 = 75.0%
* Board 3: {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhao Xue]] and {{flagicon|INA}} [[Irine Kharisma Sukandar]] 10 / 12 = 83.3%
* Reserve: {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Nadezhda Kosintseva]] 10 / 12 = 83.3%