Olympiads and Team Championships
Petrosian was not selected for the Soviet Olympiad side until 1958; he had already been a Candidate twice by that time. But he then made ten straight Soviet Olympiad teams from 1958 to 1978, won nine team gold medals, one team silver medal, and six individual gold medals.
His overall performance in Olympiad play is impressive: +78 −1 =50 (only one game lost, to Robert Hübner, out of 129 played), for 79.8 per cent, the third all-time best performance after Mikhail Tal and Anatoly Karpov. His Olympiad results are the following.
- Munich 1958, 2nd reserve, 10.5/13 (+8 −0 =5), board and team gold medals;
- Leipzig 1960, 2nd reserve, 12/13 (+11 −0 =2), board and team gold medals;
- Varna 1962, board 2, 10/12 (+8 −0 =4), board and team gold medals;
- Tel Aviv 1964, board 1, 9.5/13 (+6 −0 =7), team gold medal;
- Havana 1966, board 1, 11.5/13 (+10 −0 =3), board and team gold medals;
- Lugano 1968, board 1, 10.5/12 (+9 −0 =3), board and team gold medals;
- Siegen 1970, board 2, 10/14 (+6 −0 =8), team gold medal;
- Skopje 1972, board 1, 10.5/16 (+6 −1 =9), team gold medal;
- Nice 1974, board 4, 12.5/14 (+11 −0 =3), board and team gold medals;
- Buenos Aires 1978, board 2, 6/9 (+3 −0 =6), team silver medal.
Petrosian also made the Soviet team for the first eight European Team Championships (from 1957 to 1983). He won eight team gold medals, and four board gold medals. His totals in Euroteams play, according to olimpbase.org, are (+15 −0 =37), for 64.4 per cent. His Euroteams results follow.
- Vienna 1957, board 6, 4/5 (+3 −0 =2), board and team gold medals;
- Oberhausen 1961, board 4, 6/8 (+4 −0 =4), board and team gold medals;
- Hamburg 1965, board 1, 6/10 (+2 −0 =8), board and team gold medals;
- Kapfenberg 1970, board 1, 3.5/6 (+1 −0 =5), team gold medal;
- Bath, Somerset 1973, board 2, 4.5/7 (+2 −0 =5), board and team gold medals;
- Moscow 1977, board 2, 3.5/6 (+1 −0 =5), team gold medal;
- Skara 1980, board 3, 2.5/5 (+0 −0 =5), team gold medal;
- Plovdiv 1983, board 3 3.5/5 (+2 −0 =3), team gold medal.
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