Correspondence Chess Olympiad

The Correspondence Chess Olympiad is a correspondence chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete. International Correspondence Chess Federation organises the tournament.

Correspondence Chess Olympiads

Event	Gold	Team	Silver	Bronze
1st (1949–1952)[1]	Hungary	Janos Balogh, Gedeon Barcza, Miklós Szigeti/Jozsef Gonda, Lajos Monostori, Arpad Szücs and Dezsö Elekes.	Czechoslovakia	Sweden
2nd (1952–1955)[2]	Czechoslovakia	Vit Paroulek, Juraj Hukel, Karel Kausek, Valt Borsony, Vilém Olexa and Mirko Skrovina	Sweden	West Germany
3rd (1958–1961)[3]	Soviet Union	Igor Bondarevsky, Georgy Borisenko, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Vladimir Zagorovsky, Mikhail Yudovich and Piotr Atiashev	Hungary	Yugoslavia
4th (1962–1964)[4]	Soviet Union	Igor Bondarevsky, Peter Dubinin, Georgy Borisenko, Vladimir Zagorovsky, Mikhail Yudovich and Leon Masseiev	East Germany	Sweden
5th (1965–1968)[5]	Czechoslovakia	Josef Snadjr, Frantisek Smrcka, Miroslav Urbanec, Jaroslav Hybl, Milan Weiner and Josef Nun	Soviet Union	West Germany
6th (1968–1972)[6]	Soviet Union	Mikhail Yudovich, Peter Dubinin, Oleg Moiseev [ru], Yuri Sakharov, Abram Khasin and Nikolai Kopylov	Czechoslovakia	East Germany
7th (1972–1976)[7]	Soviet Union	Oleg Moiseev, Abram Khasin, Mikhail Yudovich, Yuri Sakharov, Nikolai Kopylov and Lev Omelchenko	Bulgaria	Great Britain
8th (1977–1982)[8]	Soviet Union	Yakov Estrin, Oleg Moiseev, Abram Khasin, Mikhail Yudovich, Peter Dubinin and Lev Omelchenko	Hungary	Great Britain
9th (1982–1987)[9]	Great Britain	Jonathan Penrose, Adrian Hollis, Simon Webb, John Footner, John Toothill and Cris Shephard	West Germany	Soviet Union
10th (1987–1995)[10]	Soviet Union	Tõnu Õim, Vladimir Zagorovsky, Gennady Nesis, Aleksei Michailov, Grigory Sanakoev and Sergei Korolev	England	East Germany
11th (1992–1999)[11]	Czech Republic & Germany	CZE: Jindrich Zapletal, Alois Lanc, Igor Privara, Milan Mraz, Jindřich Trapl and Jiri Goth/Rudolf Sevecek. GER: Heinrich Burger, Hans Palm, Karl Maeder, Fritz Baumbach, Volker Anton and Martin Kreuzer		Canada and Scotland
12th (1998–2004)[12]	Germany	Joachim Neumann, Manfred Nimtz, Volker Anton, Martin Kreuzer, Stephan Busemann and Karl Maeder	Lithuania	Latvia
13th (2004–2009)[13]	Germany	Fritz Baumbach, Siegfried Kluve, Martin Kreuzer, Robert K. von Weizsäcker, Roland Pfretzschner and Matthias Kribben	Czech Republic	Poland
14th (2002–2006)[14]	Germany	Peter Hertel, Frank Gerhardt, Stephan Busemann, Andreas Brenke, Horst Broß and Hans Hofstetter	Lithuania	United States
15th (2006–2009)[15]	Norway	Ivar Bern, Raymond Boger, Petter Stigar, Arild Haugen, Morten Lilleoren and Tor-Arne Klausen	Germany	Netherlands
16th (2010–2016)[16]	Czech Republic	Roman Chitilek, Jiri Dufek, David Vrkoc and Jiri Vosáhlik	Germany	France
17th (2009–2012)[17]	Germany	Maximilian Voss, Peter Hertel, Arno Nickel, Stephan Busemann, Hans-Dieter Wunderlich and Gerhard Müller	Spain	Italy
18th (2012–2016)[18]	Germany	Peter Hertel, Matthias Kribben, Maximilian Voss, Arno Nickel, Hans-Dieter Wunderlich and Reinhard Moll	Slovenia	Spain
19th (2016–2021)[19]	Bulgaria	Nikolai Ninov, Valentin Dimitrov Iotov, Simeon Vinchev and Krasimir Bochev	Germany	Poland
20th (2016–2019)[20]	Germany	Matthias Kribben, Arno Nickel, Stephan Busemann, Reinhard Moll, Robert Bauer and Matthias Gleichmann	Russia	Spain
21st (2020–2023)[21]	Germany	Matthias Kribben, Stephan Busemann, Hans-Dieter Wunderlich, Robert Bauer, Robert K. von Weizsäcker and Roland del Rio	Luxembourg	United States

Ladies Correspondence Chess Olympiads

N°	Years	Gold	Team	Silver	Bronze
1st[22]	1974–1979	Soviet Union	Olga Rubtsova, Marta Litinskaya, Ljuba Kristol/Tamara Zaitseva and Liudmila Belavenets	West Germany	Czechoslovakia
2nd[23]	1980–1986	Soviet Union	Olga Rubtsova, Lora Yakovleva, Marta Litinskaya and Liudmila Belavenets	Czechoslovakia	Yugoslavia
3rd[24]	1986–1992	Soviet Union	Merike Rõtova, Marta Litinskaya, Liudmila Belavenets and Nadezida Krasikova	Czechoslovakia	Hungary
4th[25]	1992–1997	Czech Republic	Eva Mozná, Mariola Babulová, Hana Kubiková and Vlasta Horácková	Russia	Poland
5th[26]	1997–2003	Russia	Irina Perevertkina, Svetlana Khlusevich, Tamara Zaitseva and Elena Rufitskaya	Germany	Czech Republic
6th[27]	2003–2006	Lithuania	Vilma Dambrauskaité, Vineta Kveinys, Vigante Milasiuté and Jelizaveta Potapova	Germany	Italy
7th[28]	2007–2009	Slovenia	Maia Nadvesnik, Lara Kozarski, Eva Korosec and Anica Horvat	Lithuania	Germany
8th[29]	2008–2010	Poland	Barbara Skonieczna, Alicla Szczepaniak, Bronislawa Lubas and Bozena Wojcik-Wojtkowiak	Bulgaria	Italy
9th[30]	2011–2014	Russia	Olga Sukhareva, Larisa Morokova, Oksana Zhak and Svetlana Lobanova	Lithuania	Germany
10th[31]	2015–2017	Germany	Svetlana Kloster, Barbara Boltz, Kristin Achatz and Irene Neuburger	Lithuania	Russia

See also

• Chess Olympiad
• ICCF national member federations—Short articles about the federations
• ICCF numeric notation
• World Correspondence Chess Championship
• International Correspondence Chess Federation
• European Team Chess Championship