Women's World Blitz Chess Championship

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. The current world blitz champion is the Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. Bibisara Assaubayeva from Kazakhstan is the current women's blitz world champion. Magnus Carlsen has won the event a record six times.

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Tournament Year Location Winner(s)
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2023 Samarkand (Uzbekistan) Valentina Gunina
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2022 Almaty (Kazakhstan) Bibisara Assaubayeva
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2021 Warsaw (Poland) Bibisara Assaubayeva
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2019 Moscow (Russia) Kateryna Lagno
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2018 Saint Petersburg (Russia) Kateryna Lagno
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2017 Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Nana Dzagnidze
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2016 Doha (Qatar) Anna Muzychuk
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2014 Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia) Anna Muzychuk
Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2012 Batumi (Georgia) Valentina Gunina