(1991-01-31) 31 January 1991 (age 33) Shanghai, China
Title
Grandmaster (2014)
Women's World Champion
2018–present
FIDE rating
2560 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2604 (March 2017)
Medal record
Representing China
Summer Universiade
2013 Kazan
Mixed team
2013 Kazan
Women's individual
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou
Women's Team
Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991)[1] is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the current Women's World Chess Champion. In March 2017 she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600.[2] She is a four-time Women's World Chess Champion, having won the title first in May 2018 (against Tan Zhongyi). She then defended her title in November 2018 (against Kateryna Lagno), 2020 (against Aleksandra Goryachkina), and 2023 (against Lei Tingjie).[3]
^WGM title application. FIDE.
^"Goryachkina 6th woman ever to cross 2600". chess24. 2021.
^"FIDE adopts a new system for the Women's Candidates 2022-23". FIDE.
JuWenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: JūWénjūn; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the current Women's World Chess Champion. In March...
Women's World Championship match, which she lost in rapid tiebreaks to JuWenjun. She is also a three-time Russian Women's Chess Champion, which she achieved...
the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024, allowing her to compete against JuWenjun in the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. Tan was born in Chongqing...
World Chess Champion and Women's World Chess Champion, Ding Liren and JuWenjun, with Ding playing his first international event since May 2023 after...
World Chess Champion JuWenjun. The winner of the Candidates Tournament will play Ding in the World Chess Championship 2024, while Ju will defend her title...
Chess World Cup 2023 by rating, replacing women's world chess champion JuWenjun. He reached the round of 16, where he defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi to advance...
current World Chess Champion in classical chess. As of January 2024, JuWenjun of China is the women's top-ranked rapid player, who is also the current...
hold the title and, jointly with the 2020 women's world chess champion JuWenjun, made China the holder of both the open and women's world titles. Ding...
Games in Huai'an, China. In November 2018, Lagno lost to world champion JuWenjun in the finals of the Women's World Championship. In December 2018, Lagno...
Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021. "JuWenjun". Chess.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved...
ChessBase staff (28 December 2018). "FIDE World Rapid Champions: Dubov and Ju". ChessBase. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019. Retrieved 28 December...
performance rating of 2925. Chinese reigning Women's World Chess Champion JuWenjun, playing on the first board, was the best individual player in the Women's...
Irina Krush, and Nino Batsiashvili, drew against Women's World Champion JuWenjun and Anna Ushenina, and suffered her only loss to Polina Shuvalova. "Divya...
by Chinese women's world chess champions Hou Yifan, Tan Zhongyi, and JuWenjun. On March 25, 2006 Yuhua won the Women's World Chess Championship knock-out...
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