MOST PHOTOGENIC WOMEN TEAMS , TORINO OLYMPIADS 2006
PHOTOS BY PUFICHEK, PRESENTED BY CHESSPICS
VOTING CLOSED

From the large collection of Pufichek Chesspics albums of players of the Torino Chess Olympiad 2006, we have selected a few for our Photogenic Collection. The photos were posted for voting from May 24 to June 24, generating enormous interest from all sides of the globe, with over 10,000 people actively taking part in the voting. Most photos in this gallery will be used to illustrate the Torino 2006 Olympiads.

We present to you below the most complete collection of photos of full teams playing at the Torino Chess Olympiad 2006. We have selected the best for our Teams Collection. The voting is now closed. The top 3 teams are:

- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Poland
- Russia

Have a look at our galleries at CHESSPICS (use the pulldown menus on the left).

 current rating: 1211 with 288 votes (4.2 /5)


Bosnia Herzegovina (Elena Titova-Boric, Dijana Dengler, Sanja Dedijer, Mira Dedijer)
 current rating: 858 with 206 votes (4.2 /5)


Poland (Iweta Radziewicz, Iolanta Zawadzka, Marta Przezdziecka, Joanna Majdan)
 current rating: 678 with 185 votes (3.7 /5)


Russia (Alexandra Kosteniuk, Tatiana Kosintseva, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya)
 current rating: 591 with 144 votes (4.1 /5)


Slovakia (Eva Repkova, Zuzana Hagarova, Regina Pokorna, Zuzana Borosova)
 current rating: 482 with 117 votes (4.1 /5)


Ukraine (Natalia Zhukova, Katerina Lahno, Inna Yanovska-Gaponenko, Anna Ushenina)
 current rating: 340 with 83 votes (4.1 /5)


Slovenia (Anna Muzychuk, Ana Srebrnic, Jana Krivec, Ksenija Novak)
 current rating: 293 with 69 votes (4.2 /5)


Angola (Luzia Guimaraes, Engracia Oliveira, Valquiria Rocha, Sandra Venancio)
 current rating: 265 with 70 votes (3.8 /5)


Iran (Atousa Pourkasiyan, Shadi Paridar, Shayesteh Ghaderpour, Shirin Navabi)
 current rating: 258 with 62 votes (4.2 /5)


UAE (Mariam Mansour, Mohamed Ebtissam, Nora Mohd Saleh, Essa Kholoud)
 current rating: 223 with 63 votes (3.5 /5)


France (Almira Skripchenko, Maria Leconte, Sophie Millet, Roza Lallemand)
 current rating: 198 with 55 votes (3.6 /5)


Argentina ( Carolina Lujan, Marisa Zuriel, Liliana Burijovich, Maria Belen Sarquis)
 current rating: 158 with 39 votes (4.1 /5)


El Salvador (Lorena Zepeda, Ada Castaneda, Gabriela Melendez, Sonia Zepeda)
 current rating: 153 with 47 votes (3.3 /5)


Australia (Irina Berezina, Laura Moylan, Arianne Caoili, Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky)
 current rating: 147 with 37 votes (4 /5)


Kazakhstan (Dana Aketayeva, Sofya Zigangirova, Gulmira Dauletova)
 current rating: 143 with 38 votes (3.8 /5)


Peru (Karen Zapata, Luciana Morales, Ingrid Aliaga)
 current rating: 140 with 36 votes (3.9 /5)


Malaysia (Zulaikha Siti, Theng Wan, Zullkafli Nur, Marmono Roslina)
 current rating: 136 with 37 votes (3.7 /5)


Bulgaria (Antoaneta Stefanova, Margarita Voiska, Emilia Djingarova, Maria Velcheva)
 current rating: 127 with 39 votes (3.3 /5)


USA (Anna Zatonskih, Irina Krush, Rusudan Goletiani, Camilla Baginskaite)
 current rating: 114 with 29 votes (3.9 /5)


Philippines (Sheerie Joy Lomibao, Catherine Perena, Sherily Cua, Beverly Mendoza)
 current rating: 106 with 31 votes (3.4 /5)


Germany (Elisabeth Paehtz, Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska, Jessica Nill,Vera Juergens)
 current rating: 103 with 27 votes (3.8 /5)


Armenia (Lilit Mktrchian, Elina Danielian, Nelli Aginian, Siranush Andriasian)
 current rating: 101 with 30 votes (3.4 /5)


Netherlands (Zhao Qin Peng, Tea Bosboom-Lanchava, Petra Shuurman, Bianca Muhren)
 current rating: 100 with 26 votes (3.8 /5)


Hungary (Hoang Thanh Trang, Ildiko Madl, Szidonia Vajda, Anita Gara)
 current rating: 96 with 26 votes (3.7 /5)


Azerbaijan (Khayala Isgandarova, Nargiz Umudova, Fidan Agasiyeva, Viktoriya Avdeeva)
 current rating: 92 with 26 votes (3.5 /5)


Belarus (Nadezhda Azarova, Natalija Popova, Anna Sharevich, Tatiana Berlin)
 current rating: 90 with 22 votes (4.1 /5)


Indonesia (Irine Sukandar Kharisma, Evi Lindiawati, Tri Handayani, Rahayu Sinuhaji Tuti)
 current rating: 90 with 26 votes (3.5 /5)


Japan (Emiko Nakagawa, Mirai Ishizuka, Ayano Hishii, Misaki Shibata)
 current rating: 80 with 20 votes (4 /5)


Portugal (Catarina Leite, Margarida Coimbra, Ariana Pintor, Ana Baptista)
 current rating: 78 with 21 votes (3.7 /5)


Colombia ( Nadya Ortiz, Angela Franco, Maricela Palao, Beatriz Franco)
 current rating: 78 with 20 votes (3.9 /5)


Turkey (Ekaterina Polovnikova, Zehra Topel, Kubra Ozturk, Nilufer Cinar)
 current rating: 74 with 21 votes (3.5 /5)


Latvia (Dana Reizniece, Laura Rogule, Anda Safranska, Ilze Berzina)
 current rating: 66 with 20 votes (3.3 /5)


Venezuela (Sarai Sanchez, Irene Han, Zaida Hernandez, Yesmar Araujo)
 current rating: 65 with 18 votes (3.6 /5)


China (Zhao Xue, Wang Yu, Shen Yang, Hou Yifan)
 current rating: 64 with 17 votes (3.8 /5)


South Africa (Denise Frick, Jenine Ellappen, Suvania Moodliar, Anzel Laubscher)
 current rating: 62 with 16 votes (3.9 /5)


Israel (Masha Klinova, Angela Borsuk, Bella Igla, Irina Botvinnik)
 current rating: 57 with 16 votes (3.6 /5)


Norway (Ellen Hagesaether, Barth Sahl, Silje Bjerke, Torill Hagesaether)
 current rating: 55 with 15 votes (3.7 /5)


Surinam (Victoria Naipal, Jyoti Hardwarsing, Wasudha Malgie, Anuska Sabajo)
 current rating: 53 with 14 votes (3.8 /5)


Mexico (Yadira Hernandez, Alejandra Guerrero, Paulina Carreras, Nelly Estrada)
 current rating: 50 with 16 votes (3.1 /5)


Lithuania (Viktorija Cmilyte, Dagne Ciuksyte, Deimante Daulyte, Daiva Batyte)
 current rating: 47 with 15 votes (3.1 /5)


Georgia (Nino Khurtsidze, Nana Dzagnidze, Lela Javakhishvili, Maia Lomineishvili)
 current rating: 47 with 12 votes (3.9 /5)


Czech Republic (Jana Jackova, Katerina Cedikova, Olga Sikorova, Petra Blazkova)
 current rating: 46 with 15 votes (3.1 /5)


Mongolia (Mongontuul, Yanjindulam, Bayaraa, Anhchimeg)
 current rating: 44 with 12 votes (3.7 /5)


Sweden (Viktoria Johansson, Evgenia Pavlovskaia, Eva Jiretorn, Christin Andersson)
 current rating: 43 with 11 votes (3.9 /5)


Jamaica (Deborah Richards, Hui Zhu, Vanessa Thomas, Camille Casserly)
 current rating: 43 with 12 votes (3.6 /5)


Wales (Abigail Cast, Julie Wilson, Suzy Blackburn, Megan Owens)
 current rating: 42 with 11 votes (3.8 /5)


Switzerland (Gundula Heinatz, Monika Seps, Barbara Hund, Anastassia Gavrilova)
 current rating: 42 with 11 votes (3.8 /5)


Netherlands Antilles (Uclan Flanders, Seydi Salim-Moussa, Nishanti Balentin)
 current rating: 41 with 11 votes (3.7 /5)


ItalyA (Elena Sedina, Olga Zimina, Eleonora Ambrosi, Maria Vincenza Santurbano)
 current rating: 39 with 12 votes (3.3 /5)


Croatia (Mirjana Medic, Lara Stock, Vlasta Macek, Borka Franciskovic)
 current rating: 38 with 12 votes (3.2 /5)


Sri Lanka (Gamage Methmali, M.C. Wijayawardana, Thilini Koswatte, Ruchirani Senanayaka)
 current rating: 37 with 12 votes (3.1 /5)


Canada (Natalia Khoudgarian, Nava Starr, Dinara Khaziyeva, Hazel Smith)
 current rating: 37 with 12 votes (3.1 /5)


Uzbekistan (Olga Sabirova, Yulduz Hamrakulova, Iroda Khamrakulova, Shakhnoza Khamrakulova)
 current rating: 36 with 9 votes (4 /5)


Chinese Taipei (Chen Chen I, Elsa Wei Chung Yueh, Elaine Yu-Tong Lin, Pemh An Chen)
 current rating: 36 with 9 votes (4 /5)


Ecuador (Martha Fierro, Evelyn Moncayo, Rocio Vasquez)
 current rating: 35 with 11 votes (3.2 /5)


Moldova (Svetlana Petrenko, Karolina Smokina, Elena Partac, Naira Agababean)
 current rating: 35 with 12 votes (2.9 /5)


Estonia (Monika Tsiganova, Viktoria Bashkite, Valeria Gansvind, Leili Piarnpuu)
 current rating: 34 with 10 votes (3.4 /5)


Cuba (Sulennis Pina Vega, Yaniet Marerro Lopez, Jennifer Perez Rodriguez, Maritza Arribas Robaina)
 current rating: 34 with 12 votes (2.8 /5)


Serbia Montenegro (Alisa Maric, Irina Chelushkina, Susana Maksimovic, Ana Benderac)
 current rating: 34 with 12 votes (2.8 /5)


Malta (Oana Pulpan, Filipina Aguilar, Jessieca Aguilar, Uranchimeg Alyeksandr)
 current rating: 33 with 10 votes (3.3 /5)


Romania (Corina Isabella Peptan, Cristina Adela Foisor, Adina Maria Bogza, Ana Cristina Calotescu)
 current rating: 32 with 12 votes (2.7 /5)


Finland (Niina Sammalvuo, Tanja Rantanen, Heini Puuska, Laura Savola)
 current rating: 31 with 9 votes (3.4 /5)


India (Humpy Koneru, Dronavalli Harika, Ghate Swathi, Mary Ann Gomes)
 current rating: 31 with 9 votes (3.4 /5)


Iceland (Lenka Ptacnikova, Gudlaug Thorsteinsdottir, Lilja Gretarsdottir, Regina Fridthjofsdott)
 current rating: 31 with 10 votes (3.1 /5)


Yemen (Adeela Raweh, Amimah Awat, Amani Jalal, Madmiah Abdulsalam)
 current rating: 30 with 10 votes (3 /5)


ItalyB (Maria Arnetta, Veronika Goi, Marianna Chierici, Marina Brunello)
 current rating: 30 with 8 votes (3.8 /5)


Libya (Safa Elnami, Mohamed Wafa, Rahal Mawadda)
 current rating: 30 with 8 votes (3.8 /5)


Turkmenistan (Mahri Geldieva, Bahar Hallaeva, Maisa Ovezova, Halbagt Reimova)
 current rating: 28 with 9 votes (3.1 /5)


Qatar (Aisha Al-Khelaifi, Noora Al-Jefairi, Alshaymaa Safar, Salama Al-Khelaifi)
 current rating: 27 with 12 votes (2.3 /5)


Greece (Yelena Dembo, Anna-Maria Botsari, Marina Makropoulou, Ekaterini Fakhiridou)
 current rating: 27 with 10 votes (2.7 /5)


Vietnam (An Nguyen Thi Thanh, Tram Hoang Thi Bao, Tu Le Thanh, Ngoc Pham Bich)
 current rating: 26 with 10 votes (2.6 /5)


Bangladesh (Rani Hamid, Zakia Sultana, Nazrana Khan, Tanima Parveen)
 current rating: 26 with 9 votes (2.9 /5)


Spain (Monica Calzetta Ruiz, Mairelys Delgado Crespo, Patricia Llaneza Vega, Yudania Hernandez Estevez)
 current rating: 25 with 9 votes (2.8 /5)


England (Jovanka Houska, Jessi Gilbert, Jana Bellin, Sophie Tidman)
 current rating: 24 with 10 votes (2.4 /5)


Austria (Helene Mira, Anna Kopinits, Sonja Sommer, Maria Horvath)
 current rating: 22 with 11 votes (2 /5)


Kyrgystan (Janyl Tilenbaeva, Sofia Sabirova, Alexandra Samaganova, Irina Ostry)