Mitra Hejazipour

{{Infobox chess player

| name = Mitra Hejazipour

| image = WGM Mitra Hejazipour.jpg

| caption = Hejazipour in 2020

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| country = Iran (until 2021)
France (since 2021)

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|02|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Mashhad, Iran

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| title = Woman Grandmaster (2015)

| peakrating = 2357 (September 2015)

| FideID = 12505951

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Mitra Hejazipour ({{langx|fa|میترا حجازی‌پور}}, born 19 February 1993)[http://ratings.fide.com/crt/main219440.pdf WIM title application] FIDE is an Iranian and French chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.

Career

She won the silver medal in the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2003.[http://chess-results.com/tnr1384.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&wi=984 World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10] Chess-Results

Hejazipour won the Iranian Women Chess Championship in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.chessdom.com/iran-womens-championship-2012-wim-mitra-hejazipour-takes-the-title/ |title=Iran Women's Championship 2012: WIM Mitra Hejazipour takes the title |publisher=Chessdom |date=19 December 2012 |access-date=9 September 2015}} She was the runner-up in 2013 and in 2014.[http://chess-results.com/tnr117558.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=11&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984 Iran Women National Championship (Final)] Chess-Results[http://chess-results.com/tnr154617.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=11&wi=821 Iranian Women National Championship (Final) 2014] Chess-Results

She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, in which she was knocked out by Pia Cramling in the first round.

Hejazipour won the 2015 Asian Continental Women's Championship in Al Ain. Thanks to this achievement, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster and qualified for the next knockout Women's World Championship.{{cite web |url=http://www.chessdom.com/salem-is-asian-chess-king-mitra-hejazipour-wins-womens-crown/ |title=Salem is Asian chess king; Mitra Hejazipour wins women's crown |publisher=Chessdom |date=11 August 2015 |access-date=9 September 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/hejazipour-new-asian-women-s-champion |title=Hejazipour new Asian Women's Champion |author=Sagar Shah |publisher=ChessBase |date=2 September 2015 |access-date=9 September 2015}}

She has been playing for the Iranian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads since 2008. Mitra Hejazipour was fired from the Iranian national team in 2020 for "removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow". Hejazipour said that the hijab is a "limitation, not protection, as official regime propaganda claims."{{cite web |url=https://en.radiofarda.com/a/hijab-limits-women-says-iranian-chess-master-sacked-from-national-team/30402644.html |title=Hijab Limits Women, Says Iranian Chess Master Sacked From National Team |date=28 January 2020 |publisher=Radio Farda}}

In 2021, she began representing France where she had already been living.{{Cite news |date=2021-07-30 |title=Pour la championne iranienne Mitra Hejazipour, la liberté au bout de l'échiquier |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/07/30/pour-la-championne-iranienne-mitra-hejazipour-la-liberte-au-bout-de-l-echiquier_6089959_4500055.html |access-date=2023-07-23}} In March 2023, she became a French citizen.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-13 |title=Naturalisation - Mitra Hejazipour est désormais Française |url=https://www.europe-echecs.com/art/naturalisation-9006.html |access-date=2023-07-23 |website=www.europe-echecs.com |language=fr}}

In 2023, she became the French National women's champion.{{cite web |url=http://echecs.asso.fr/Actu.aspx?Ref=14588 |title=French national women's champion |publisher=French Chess Federation echecs.asso|access-date=28 August 2023}}

Achievements

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Silver medal in World Youth Chess Championship 2002 - Girls-10 {{cite web |url=https://en.irna.ir/news/9006464/Championships-Chess-World-at-third-second-stand-girls-Iranian |title=Championships Chess World at third second, stand girls Iranian |date=24 November 2002 |publisher=IRNA}}

Silver medal in World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10 {{cite web |url=http://chess-results.com/tnr1384.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&wi=984 |title=World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10 |publisher=chess-results}}

Silver medal Asian youth chess championships 2002 {{cite web |url=http://vietnamchess.vn/index.php/en/tournament-news/191-international/continential-events/asian-youth/464-asianyouth-ch2002 |title=Asian Youth Chess Championship Tehran, Iran, March 28 - April 4 2002 |publisher=vietnamchess}}

Bronze medal Asian youth chess championships 2004 {{cite web |url=http://www.vietnamchess.vn/index.php/en/tournament-news/191-international/continential-events/asian-youth/510-asianyouth-ch2004 |title=Asian Youth Chess Championships 2004 Singapore, 10th to 18th December |publisher=vietnamchess}}

Silver medal Asian youth chess championships 2006 {{cite web |url=https://chessprime.com/tournaments/tournament/6252/ |title=Asian Youth Chess Championship(Girls-U14) Tehran 24-30 July,2006 |publisher=ChessPrime}}

Silver medal Asian youth chess championships 2008 {{cite web |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/asian-youth-championship-in-teheran/368 |title=Asian Youth Championship in Teheran |date=24 July 2008 |publisher=chessbase}}

Silver medal Asian youth chess championships u18 2010 {{cite web |url=http://chess-results.com/tnr35971.aspx?lan=1&art=4&fed=CHN&turdet=YES |title=ASIAN YOUTH INVITATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010 G18 |publisher=chess-results}}

Bronze medal Asian indoor games 2007 Macao mixed team

Asian youth championships 2009 4th place {{cite web |url=http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/asian-youth-chess-2009 |title=Asian youth chess championship 2009 |publisher=chessdom}}

Silver medal Asian juniors chess championships 2009 Sri Lanka {{cite web |url=http://chess-results.com/tnr23503.aspx?lan=1&art=4 |title=Asian Junior Girls Chess Championship 2009 |publisher=chess-results}}

Bronze medal Asian teams chess championships 2005 Esfahan,2009 Kolkata India, 2014 Tabriz

World teams chess olympiad 2012 9th place best result for Iran's team in Iran history

World girls juniors 2013 4th place {{cite web |url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/gold-for-yu-and-goryachkina-at-world-juniors-4389 |title=Gold for Yu and Goryachkina at World Juniors |date=2 October 2013 |publisher=chess.com}}

Bronze medal World universities championships {{cite web |url=http://www.fisu.net/en/Gabuzyan-M-Ni-Shiqun-W-top-14th-WUC-Chess-3133.html?mbID=6799 |date=16 April 2016 |title=World University Championships, Chess |publisher=fisu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425042612/http://www.fisu.net/en/Gabuzyan-M-Ni-Shiqun-W-top-14th-WUC-Chess-3133.html?mbID=6799 |archive-date=25 April 2016}}

Bronze medal Iran women championships 2007 {{cite web |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/iran-emerges-as-a-che-nation |title=Iran emerges as a chess nation |date=5 January 2007 |publisher=chessbase}}

First place in Asian continental women championships 2015

Bronze medal Asian nations cup 2018 Hamedan {{cite web |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/asian-nations-2018 |title=Asian Nations Cup 2018: Iran and China on top |date=September 2018 |publisher=chessbase}}

First place in internationaux de France rapide 2019 {{cite web |url=http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Actu.aspx?Ref=11925 |title=Internationaux de France rapide |publisher=French Chess Federation echecs.asso|access-date=28 August 2023}}

French national women's champion 2023