Zoja Golubeva

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovna and the family name is Golubeva.

Zoja Golubeva
Зоя Голубева
Born
Zoja Aleksandrovna Sadovskaya

(1967-04-30) 30 April 1967 (age 57)
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Belarus)
NationalityBelarusian, Latvian

Zoja Aleksandrovna Golubeva[a] (née Sadovskaya[b]; born 30 April 1967) is a Soviet, Belarusian and Latvian draughts player in international draughts. She was Women's World Champion in 1986, 1988, 1990–1992, 1994–2000, 2013, 2015, 2017. She became 16-time champion after winning in 2017; she was also Women's European Champion (2010 and 2012). Zoja Golubeva was also the winner of the International Draughts tournament at the 1st World Mind Sports Games. She is one of the highest ranking women in international draughts.[1]

In 1988, Golubeva married and moved to Latvia. She has a twin, Olga Sadovskaya, who is a Belarusian draughts player.


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  1. ^ FMJD Archived July 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine