Padmini Rout (born 5 January 1994) is an Indian

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player. She holds the titles of

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combinatio ...

(IM) and

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating an ...

(WGM). She is a four-time National Women's Premier title holder consecutively from 2014-2017 and was the Asian women's champion of 2018. Rout was honoured with the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2007 and the

Ekalavya Award The Ekalavya Award is given by the several state government including Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana etc. The award is given to native players for outstanding performance in sports or even education by few states like Rajasthan Rajasthan ...

in 2009.

Career

In 2005 Rout won her first national title, under-11 girls at Nagpur. In 2006, she was both the Indian under-13 girls champion and the Asian under-12 girls champion.Personalities: Padmini Rout
''Orisports.com'' Rout won the U14 girls' section of both Asian and

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

s in 2008. The following year she finished first in the Asian Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship. In 2010, she won the Indian junior (U19) girls championship and took the bronze medal at both Asian and World Junior Girls Championships. In the Asian Individual Women's Championship 2011 she tied for 2nd–6th places and won it in 2018. Rout won the Indian Women's Championship in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015, she also became the Commonwealth women's champion. Rout played for the Indian national team at

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

, Women's

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and Women's Asian Team Chess Championship. She won an individual gold medal playing on the reserve board at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad in

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, Norway. She has been part of the Indian women's team in the subsequent Chess Olympiads in 2016 at Baku, Azerbaijan and 2018 at Batumi, Georgia.

Personal life

Born in Barambagarh,

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,IM title application
FIDE. Padmini started playing chess at the age of 9 (2003) because of her father Dr. Ashok Kumar Rout's passion for the game. She did her schooling from D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekharpur and graduated in Commerce from

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Achievements

# Won her first National under-11 girls in 2005 at Nagpur and also won National under-13 girls in Kolkata. # Individual Gold medal for reserve board in Women's in Tromso Olympiad 2014 # Gold medal in Asian Continental Women 2018 # Four-times consecutive National Women's Premier Champion (2014-2017) # Gold in Blitz, Silver in both Rapid and Classical format in Asian Nations Cup 2014 for Team India # Gold in Blitz, Silver in Rapid and Bronze in Classical format in Asian Nations Cup 2018 for Team India # Gold in Asian under-12 girls and under-14 girls in 2006 and 2008 respectively. # Gold in Asian Junior (under-20) girls in 2009 and Bronze in 2010. # Gold in Commonwealth Women's in 2015. # Gold in World Youth under-14 in 2008. # Bronze in World Junior 2010. # Bronze in Asian Continental Women's Blitz in 2017. # Bronze in Asian Indoor Games in Rapid for Team India in 2017. # Won National Junior girls in 2010. # Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2007. # Winner of Eklavya Award in 2009.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rout, Padmini 1994 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess woman grandmasters Indian female chess players World Youth Chess Champions Chess Olympiad competitors Sportswomen from Odisha Recipients of the Ekalavya Award People from Cuttack district 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people