Vija Rožlapa (born January 8, 1942, in Liepāja) is a Latvian chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship for women four times.
Rožlapa learned to play chess at the age of 12.
During the period from 1958 to 1983 Vija Rožlapa participated without interruption in all Latvian women's chess championships.
[2] The last time she took part in Latvian women's chess championship in 2002.
Rožlapa played for Latvia in Soviet team chess championship in 1959, 1960 (won third place at girl board), 1963 (won third place at second women board), 1967, 1969 (won second place at second women board), 1972, and 1975,[3] and for team "Daugava" in Soviet team chess cup in 1961, 1966, 1968, 1974, and 1976.