WIMMelissa Castrillon Gomez

Melissa Castrillón Gómez was born in Colombia in 1995 and won the Pan-American girls' under-fourteen championship in 2009. In 2011 she won the South American women's zonal in La Ceja, qualifying for the following year's Women's World Championship. She became a WIM in 2012 and faced Nadezhda Kosintseva in the first round of that championship. At the 2012 Women's Olympiad she won an individual silver medal. She represented Colombia at four consecutive Olympiads through 2018 and won the national women's championship in 2020.