Pentala Harikrishna
Olympiad Individual result Team result
Istanbul 2000 6.5/11 ( 27th ) 8th
Bled 2002 3.5/10 ( 102nd ) 29th
Calvia 2004 5.5/11 ( 62nd ) 6th
Turin 2006 8/12 ( 14th ) 30th
Dresden 2008 6/10 ( 13th ) 16th
Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 6/10 ( 19th ) 18th
Istanbul 2012 5.5/10 ( 12th ) 35th
Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is a chess Grandmaster from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He became the youngest grandmaster from India on 12 September 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004 and Asian Individual Champion in 2011. On personal front, he married 
Nadezda Stojanovic, the Serbian chess prodigy, in 2018. Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open event in 2013. He represented India at seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 and won team Bronze at the World Team Chess Championships in 2010. At the Asian Team Championships, Harikrishna won team gold once, team silver twice and individual bronze once. In February 2013, Harikrishna's FIDE rating passed 2700 for the first time. He broke into the top ten players in the world in November 2016 with a FIDE rating of 2768. He was a student of Vignan Group of Institutions.