Padmini Rout

Padmini Rout, Vlissingen 2009
Country	India
Born	January 5, 1994 Barmbagarh, Odisha, India
Title	International Master (2015) Woman Grandmaster (2007)
Peak rating	2454 (March 2015)

Padmini Rout (born January 5, 1994 in Barmbagarh, Odisha) is an Indian chess player who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She won the World Under-14 Girls' Championship in 2008 and the Indian Women's Championship in 2014. She has also won five Asian and four national titles.

Padmini Rout started playing chess at the age of nine (2003) because of her father's passion for the game.

Awards and Honours

She was honoured with the Ekalavya Award by Orissa Government in 2009.

Achievements

• She was the Asian Under-12 Girls Chess Champion in 2005 and 2006
• Indian U13 Girls Chess Champion in 2006
• World U14 Girls Champion in 2008
• Continental Asian Junior (Under-20) Girls Champion in 2009
• Third place in the Asian Junior Girls Championship 2010
• Third place in the World Junior Girls Chess Championship 2010
• Equal third in the Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011
• Indian Women's Champion in 2014

Personal life

She studied at D.A.V. Public School, Chandrasekhpur, Bhubaneswar