| Harika Dronavalli | |
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| Country | India |
| Born | 12 January 1991 Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Title | Grandmaster (2011) |
| FIDE rating | 2493 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2543 (November 2016) |
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024.[1] She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India.[2] In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports.[3]
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- ^ "Harika's parents on cloud nine". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ "Here is the complete list of Padma awardees 2019- The New Indian Express". Archived from the original on 26 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.