Olga Badelka

Olga Badelka is a Belarusian chess player, currently playing for Austria, who holds the FIDE title of International Master. In 2021, she was on the chess team of the University of Missouri in the United States. As of 2022, Badelka now plays chess full-time.

Biography

Olga Badelka is multiple winner of Belarusian Youth Chess Championships for girls in different age groups:
U16, U18, U20.
She repeatedly represented Belarus at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won five medals: gold, three silver and bronze. In 2013, Badelka won World School Chess Championship in the U11 girls age group. She four time played for Belarus in World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads.
In 2017, in Riga, Badelka participated in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.
Badelka played for Belarus in the Women's Chess Olympiads:

In 2016, at third board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Baku,
In 2018, at first board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Batumi.

In 2017, she received the FIDE Woman International Master title. She received the International Master and Woman Grandmaster titles in 2019.
In 2021, Badelka played the Bongcloud against Magnus Carlsen during a blitz event. Carlsen dubbed the move "...very silly and a little bit legendary...".
In 2021, she entered the University of Missouri in the United States, joining the university's chess team and majoring in linguistics.