Vantika Agrawal

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Vantika Agrawal
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Country India
Born (2002-09-28) 28 September 2002 (age 22)
Title International Master (2023) [1]
Woman Grandmaster (2021)
Peak rating 2435 (September 2023)

Vantika Agrawal (born September 2002) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is a three-time gold medalist at the Chess Olympiad including two gold medals at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024 at Budapest. [2] She won a silver medal with the Indian Team at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games. Agrawal's accolades also include medals in Commonwealth, World Youth, Asian Youth and National Championships.

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Early life and education

Vantika was born to Ashish and Sangeeta Agrawal on 28 September 2002 in Uttar Pradesh, India where she did her schooling from Amity International School, Noida. She started playing chess at a very young age of seven along with her elder brother, Vishesh. Vantika won her first major gold medal at the age of nine at the U-9 Asian Schools Championship, Delhi. Both of her parents are Chartered Accountants. She holds a B.Com (honours) degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. [3]

Chess career

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the National Child Award to Vantika Agrawal, 2016 The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the National Child Award to Miss Vantika Agrawal on the occasion of Children's Day, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.jpg
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the National Child Award to Vantika Agrawal, 2016

In 2016, Agrawal won bronze medal in World Youth Chess Championship U14 girls age group. [4]

In 2020 she, with the Indian national team, won FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020. [5]

In 2021, Vantika Agrawal won silver medal in Indian Junior Girls Online Chess Championship [6] and won gold medal in Indian Junior Senior Women Chess Championship. [7] At the same year she also won FIDE Binance Business Schools Supercup. [8]

In November 2021 in Riga, Vantika Agrawal ranked in 14th place in FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021. [9] She received the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 2021. [10]

In 2024, she was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest. She also won the individual gold playing on Board 4. [2]

Achievements

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

Gold Medal in Fide Online Chess Olympiad, Aug 2020. The 12-player team also included Viswanathan Anand, Vidit Gujrathi, Harikrishna, Humpy, Harika, Vaishali and Divya among others.

2019

2018

Bronze in National Juniors Delhi, India.

2016

2015

2014

Silver in National U-13 Chess Championship at Jamshedpur, India.

2013

Silver in National U-11 Chess Championship at Delhi, India

2011

Gold in Asian Schools Championship U-9 Girls, Delhi, India.

Honours Received

Vantika was honoured by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi for winning Double Gold in the 45th Chess Olympiad, Budapest in 2024. She was honoured by Hon'ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Adityanath as well.

For winning the silver medal in Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou, CM Shri Yogi Adityanath felicitated her in Lucknow.

For the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mahabalipuram, India 2022, Vantika carried the Olympiad torch through seven cities of Uttar Pradesh. The torch relay started from Agra, Kanpur then Lucknow followed by Prayagraj, Varanasi, then Gorakphur and finally ending in Ayodhya. [12]

Agrawal received National Child Award for exceptional achievement in Chess from Hon'ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in 2016.

For winning the gold medal at Asian School U-9 Championship in 2011, Vantika was felicitated by Shri Narendra Modi (the then Chief Minister of Gujarat).

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