Ju Wenjun is a Chinese chess grandmaster born January 31, 1991, in Shanghai, who has held the Women's World Chess Championship title across multiple reigns beginning in 2018, defeating Tan Zhongyi in her first title match. She has successfully defended the championship several times since, including matches against challengers Aleksandra Goryachkina and Lei Tingjie, and is regarded as one of the most dominant women's chess players of her era, also having won the Chinese Women's Chess Championship.
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Career HighlightReigning five-time Women's World Chess Champion, first winning the title in 2018 and successfully defending it in 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2025. 1 Classification
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Has Ju Wenjun won world titles in rapid and blitz chess as well as the classical title?
Yes. She is a two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion and a former Women's World Blitz Chess Champion.
Yes. Alongside her Women's World Chess Championship title, Ju Wenjun is a two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion and a former Women's World Blitz Chess Champion.
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Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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She is the reigning five-time Women's World Champion, a former Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, and a two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion.
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Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
Plays: Chess, Lead sentence
is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
Competed In: Asian Games, Lead or career section
Her team has won the gold medal in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (in 2016 and 2018), Women's World Team Chess Championship (2009 and 2011), Women's Asian Nations Chess Cup (2012, 2014 and 2016), and 2010 Asian Games.
Competed In: World Chess Championship, Lead or career section
In December 2004, Ju Wenjun tied for the second place at the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Beirut, which earned her an invitation to play in her first Women's World Chess Championship in 2006 where she was eliminated in the third round.
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