winners, medalists, medal count, and norms
The World Youth Championship took place in Kemer, Antalya, 11-23 November, 2009. It was an 11 rounds Swiss system with rate of play 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
The championship has collected close to 1500 participants this year. The count states that players come from 88 countries all over the world and with the accompanying personnel, parents, coaches, staff etc. this number reaches 2380 people.
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Scroll down for winners of this edition, the medal count, and the statistics.
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Participants boys: Boys U8 / Boys U10 / Boys U12 / Boys U14 / Boys U16 / Boys U18
Participants girls: Girls U8 / Girls U10 / Girls U12 / Girls U14 / Girls U16 / Girls U18
Medalists
Boys U8
Gold Aryan GHOLAMI 1950 IRI 9
Silver Tanuj VASUDEVA 0 USA 8½
Bronze Mohammad Amin TABATABAEI 1678 IRI 8½
Girls U8
Gold Ruotong CHU 0 CHN 9½
Silver Samritha PALAKOLLU 0 USA 8½
Bronze Yunshan LI 0 CHN 8½
Boys U10
Gold Jinshi BAI 0 CHN
Silver Murali KARTHIKEYAN 1969 IND
Bronze ZHANG Han Yu CHN
Girls U10
Gold Mammadzada Gunay Vugar Qizi 1732 AZE 10,5
Silver WCM Ivana Maria Furtado 1859 IND 8,5
Bronze WCM Hojjatova Aydan Hikmet Qizi 1846 AZE 8,5
Boys U12
Gold Bobby Cheng 2202 AUS 9
Silver FM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2079 POL 8½
Bronze Richard Wang 2044 CAN 8½
Girls U12
Gold WFM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2018 IRI 10
Silver WFM Styazhkina Anna 2018 RUS 9½
Bronze WFM Goryachkina Aleksandra 1971 RUS 8½
Boys U14
Gold IM Cori Jorge 2462 PER 9
Silver Dragun Kamil 2284 POL 8½
Bronze FM Sai Krishna G V 2225 IND 8½
Girls U14
Gold WFM Efroimski Marsel 2150 ISR 9
Silver WFM Lach Aleksandra 2158 POL 9
Bronze Saranya J 2146 IND 8½
Boys U16
Gold IM Sethuraman S P 2447 IND 9
Silver IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2459 IND 9
Bronze FM Lagarde Maxime 2393 FRA 8
Girls U16
Gold WIM Cori T Deysi 2374 PER
Silver WIM Arabidze Meri 2254 GEO
Bronze WIM Paikidze Nazi 2257 GEO
Boys U18
Gold IM Matlakov Maxim 2575 RUS 9
Silver GM Salgado Lopez Ivan 2562 ESP 8½
Bronze IM Piorun Kacper 2475 POL 8
Girls U18
Gold WGM Girya Olga 2340 RUS 8½
Silver WIM Tsatsalashvili Keti 2288 GEO 8½
Bronze WIM Ozturk Kubra 2177 TUR 8
Medal count gold / silver / bronze
Russia 2 / 1 / 2 (total 5)
China 2 / 0 / 2 (total 4)
Iran 2 / 0 / 1 (total 3)
Peru 2 / 0 / 0 (total 2)
India 1 / 3 / 2 (total 6)
Azerbaijan 1 / 0 / 1 (total 2)
Israel 1 / 0 / 0 (total 1)
Australia 1 / 0 / 0 (total 1)
Poland 0 / 3 / 1 (total 4)
Georgia 0 / 2 / 1 (total 3)
USA 0 / 2 / 0 (total 2)
Spain 0 / 1 / 0 (total 1)
France 0 / 0 / 1 (total 1)
Turkey 0 / 0 / 1 (total 1)
Canada 0 / 0 / 1 (total 1)
