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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1991-01-31 ) 31 January 1991 (age 35) , Shanghai , China
- Country
- China
- Title
- Grandmaster (2014)
- Women s world champion
- 2018–present ( 2018 , 2018 , 2020 , 2023 , 2025 )
- Fide rating
- 2559 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2604 (March 2017)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Shanghai
- Occupation
- chess player
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- China
- Image
- Ju Wenjun in 2024 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Ju Wenjun
- date of birth
- 1991-01-31
- title of chess person
- Woman Grandmaster
- different from
- Wu Wenjun
- Elo rating
- 2570
- sports discipline competed in
- fast chess
- name in native language
- 居文君
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Encyclopedic overview
Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; pinyin: Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. 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. In March 2017, she became the fifth woman to achieve a rating of 2600. She first won the title of Women's World Chess Champion in May 2018. She then defended her title in November 2018, 2020, 2023, and 2025.
Career
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