WIMJaviera Belen Gomez Barrera

Javiera Belén Gómez Barrera learned chess at five in a workshop at Domus Mater school in Valdivia. Her early teachers included Víctor Huaquín and later Julio Cortés. She won the South American girls' under-twelve title in 2013 and the Pan-American title at the same age level in 2014. Victory in the 2016 South American junior girls' championship qualified her for the Woman International Master title, recorded in 2017. She won Chile's women's championship in 2020 and 2022. In 2023 she became the first woman in forty years to reach the open national final, finishing fourth. She represented Chile at four Olympiads between 2016 and 2024 and played in the inaugural Women's World Cup in 2021. To teach younger players in her region, she founded the Siete Hojas Chess Academy and gave online lessons at her former school.