Teodora Injac
Serbian chess player (born 2000)
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Teodora Injac (Serbian Cyrillic: Теодора Ињац; born 26 May 2000) is a Serbian chess player who holds the International Master (IM) title. She was awarded the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 2021, and the IM title in 2023.[2] In 2025 she became the female European champion.
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Injac in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | 26 May 2000 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Serbia |
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| FIDE rating | 2417 (March 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2474 (May 2025) |
Chess career
She won the Women's Serbian Chess Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020.[3] She was the youngest ever to win the Women's Serbian Chess Championship.
She won bronze medal at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Porto Carras, Greece in 2018.[4]
At the age of 17 she became a part of women's national team of Serbia and so far has represented Serbia in four European Teams Chess Championships (2017. in Hersonissos, Crete,[5] 2019. in Batumi, Georgia,[6] 2021. in Brezice, Slovenia,[7] and 2023. in Budva, Montenegro[8])
At the European Teams Chess Championship in 2023.[9][circular reference][10] she took a gold medal for the best performance on the first board (7/9,RP:2596[11]) which has earned her the first GM norm.[12] She is the first-ever female chess player from Serbia to have achieved a GM norm.
She represented Serbia in the 2018 Chess Olympiad[13] in Batumi Georgia and 2022 Chess Olympiad.[14] in Chennai, India.
She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 where, seeded 63rd, she defeated Dina Belenkaya 2-0 in the first round, before being defeated by 2nd-seed Kateryna Lagno 0.5-1.5 in the second round.[15]
At the Women's Chess World Cup 2023 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, she defeated Nurai Sovetbekova 2-0 in the first round before defeating Sophie Milliet with the score of 1.5-0.5 in the second round.[16] In the third round, she went on to defeat the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 winner and the former Women's World chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk with the score of 3-1. In the fourth round, she was eliminated by Polina Shuvalova with the score of 0.5-1.5.[16]
Injac won the 2025 European Women's Championship in Greece.[17][18]
