World Junior Chess Championship
World U-20 Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

Section Title: World U-20 Championship
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No.	Year	Location	Champion	Country

1	1951	Coventry/Birmingham	Borislav Ivkov	Yugoslavia

2	1953	Copenhagen	Oscar Panno	Argentina

3	1955	Antwerp	Boris Spassky	Soviet Union

4	1957	Toronto	William Lombardy	United States

5	1959	Münchenstein	Carlos Bielicki	Argentina

6	1961	The Hague	Bruno Parma	Yugoslavia

7	1963	Vrnjačka Banja	Florin Gheorghiu	Romania

8	1965	Barcelona	Bojan Kurajica	Yugoslavia

9	1967	Jerusalem	Julio Kaplan	Puerto Rico

10	1969	Stockholm	Anatoly Karpov	Soviet Union

11	1971	Athens	Werner Hug	Switzerland

12	1973	Teesside	Alexander Beliavsky	Soviet Union

13	1974	Manila	Anthony Miles	England

14	1975	Tjentište	Valery Chekhov	Soviet Union

15	1976	Groningen	Mark Diesen	United States

16	1977	Innsbruck	Artur Yusupov	Soviet Union

17	1978	Graz	Sergey Dolmatov	Soviet Union

18	1979	Skien	Yasser Seirawan	United States

19	1980	Dortmund	Garry Kasparov	Soviet Union

20	1981	Mexico City	Ognjen Cvitan	Yugoslavia

21	1982	Copenhagen	Andrei Sokolov	Soviet Union

22	1983	Belfort	Kiril Georgiev	Bulgaria

23	1984	Kiljava	Curt Hansen	Denmark

24	1985	Sharjah	Maxim Dlugy	United States

25	1986	Gausdal	Walter Arencibia	Cuba

26	1987	Baguio	Viswanathan Anand	India

27	1988	Adelaide	Joël Lautier	France

28	1989	Tunja	Vasil Spasov	Bulgaria

29	1990	Santiago	Ilya Gurevich	United States

30	1991	Mamaja	Vladimir Akopian	Soviet Union

31	1992	Buenos Aires	Pablo Zarnicki	Argentina

32	1993	Kozhikode	Igor Miladinović	Yugoslavia

33	1994	Matinhos	Helgi Grétarsson	Iceland

34	1995	Halle	Roman Slobodjan	Germany

35	1996	Medellín	Emil Sutovsky	Israel

36	1997	Żagań	Tal Shaked	United States

37	1998	Kozhikode	Darmen Sadvakasov	Kazakhstan

38	1999	Yerevan	Aleksandr Galkin	Russia

39	2000	Yerevan	Lázaro Bruzón	Cuba

40	2001	Athens	Péter Ács	Hungary

41	2002	Goa	Levon Aronian	Armenia

42	2003	Nakhchivan	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Azerbaijan

43	2004	Kochi	Pentala Harikrishna	India

44	2005	Istanbul	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Azerbaijan

45	2006	Yerevan	Zaven Andriasian	Armenia

46	2007	Yerevan	Ahmed Adly	Egypt

47	2008	Gaziantep	Abhijeet Gupta	India

48	2009	Puerto Madryn	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France

49	2010	Chotowa	Dmitry Andreikin	Russia

50	2011	Chennai	Dariusz Świercz	Poland

51	2012	Athens	Alexander Ipatov	Turkey

52	2013	Kocaeli	Yu Yangyi	China

53	2014	Pune	Lu Shanglei	China

54	2015	Khanty-Mansiysk	Mikhail Antipov	Russia

55	2016	Bhubaneswar	Jeffery Xiong	United States

56	2017	Tarvisio	Aryan Tari	Norway

57	2018	Gebze	Parham Maghsoodloo	Iran

58	2019	New Delhi

Sentence(s)

In 1976, Mark Diesen won the World Junior Chess Championship in Groningen.

final_sentence: In 1976, Mark Diesen won the World Junior Chess Championship in Groningen.