Mitra Hejazipour

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Mitra Hejazipour

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Mitra Hejazipour
Hejazipour in 2020
Country	Iran (until 2021) France (since 2021)
Born	(1993-02-19) 19 February 1993 (age 31) Mashhad, Iran
Title	Woman Grandmaster (2015)
Peak rating	2357 (September 2015)

Mitra Hejazipour (Persian: میترا حجازی‌پور, born 19 February 1993)^[1] is an Iranian and French chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.

Career

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She won the silver medal in the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2003.^[2]

Hejazipour won the Iranian Women Chess Championship in 2012.^[3] She was the runner-up in 2013 and in 2014.^[4]^[5]

She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, in which she was knocked out by Pia Cramling in the first round.

Hejazipour won the 2015 Asian Continental Women's Championship in Al Ain. Thanks to this achievement, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster and qualified for the next knockout Women's World Championship.^[6]^[7]

She has been playing for the Iranian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads since 2008. Mitra Hejazipour was fired from the Iranian national team in 2020 for "removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow". Hejazipour said that the hijab is a "limitation, not protection, as official regime propaganda claims."^[8]

In 2021, she began representing France where she had already been living.^[9] In March 2023, she became a French citizen.^[10]

In 2023, she became the French National women's champion.^[11]

Achievements

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Silver medal in World Youth Chess Championship 2002 - Girls-10 ^[12]
Silver medal in World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10 ^[13]
Silver medal Asian youth chess championships 2002 ^[14]
Bronze medal Asian youth chess championships 2004 ^[15]
Silver medal Asian youth chess championships 2006 ^[16]
Silver medal Asian youth chess championships 2008 ^[17]
Silver medal Asian youth chess championships u18 2010 ^[18]
Bronze medal Asian indoor games 2007 Macao mixed team
Asian youth championships 2009 4th place ^[19]
Silver medal Asian juniors chess championships 2009 Sri Lanka ^[20]
Bronze medal Asian teams chess championships 2005 Esfahan,2009 Kolkata India, 2014 Tabriz
World teams chess olympiad 2012 9th place best result for Iran's team in Iran history
World girls juniors 2013 4th place ^[21]
Bronze medal World universities championships ^[22]
Bronze medal Iran women championships 2007 ^[23]
First place in Asian continental women championships 2015
Bronze medal Asian nations cup 2018 Hamedan ^[24]
First place in internationaux de France rapide 2019 ^[25]
French national women's champion 2023 ^[11]

References

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^ WIM title application FIDE
^ World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10 Chess-Results
^ "Iran Women's Championship 2012: WIM Mitra Hejazipour takes the title". Chessdom. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
^ Iran Women National Championship (Final) Chess-Results
^ Iranian Women National Championship (Final) 2014 Chess-Results
^ "Salem is Asian chess king; Mitra Hejazipour wins women's crown". Chessdom. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
^ Sagar Shah (2 September 2015). "Hejazipour new Asian Women's Champion". ChessBase. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
^ "Hijab Limits Women, Says Iranian Chess Master Sacked From National Team". Radio Farda. 28 January 2020.
^ "Pour la championne iranienne Mitra Hejazipour, la liberté au bout de l'échiquier". Le Monde.fr (in French). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
^ "Naturalisation - Mitra Hejazipour est désormais Française". www.europe-echecs.com (in French). 13 May 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "French national women's champion". French Chess Federation echecs.asso. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
^ "Championships Chess World at third second, stand girls Iranian". IRNA. 24 November 2002.
^ "World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10". chess-results.
^ "Asian Youth Chess Championship Tehran, Iran, March 28 - April 4 2002". vietnamchess.
^ "Asian Youth Chess Championships 2004 Singapore, 10th to 18th December". vietnamchess.
^ "Asian Youth Chess Championship(Girls-U14) Tehran 24-30 July,2006". ChessPrime.
^ "Asian Youth Championship in Teheran". chessbase. 24 July 2008.
^ "ASIAN YOUTH INVITATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010 G18". chess-results.
^ "Asian youth chess championship 2009". chessdom.
^ "Asian Junior Girls Chess Championship 2009". chess-results.
^ "Gold for Yu and Goryachkina at World Juniors". chess.com. 2 October 2013.
^ "World University Championships, Chess". fisu. 16 April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016.
^ "Iran emerges as a chess nation". chessbase. 5 January 2007.
^ "Asian Nations Cup 2018: Iran and China on top". chessbase. September 2018.
^ "Internationaux de France rapide". French Chess Federation echecs.asso. Retrieved 28 August 2023.

External links

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Mitra Hejazipour rating card at FIDE
Mitra Hejazipour player profile and games at Chessgames.com

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Irine Kharisma Sukandar	Women's Asian Chess Champion 2015	Succeeded by Bhakti Kulkarni

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