The team was led by Alina Kashlinskaya, who won the first leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024–25 in Tbilisi, and also includes Monika Soćko, Aleksandra Maltsevskaya, who changed federation, Oliwia Kiołbasa, who scored the best individual performance at the previous Olympiad, and Alicja Śliwicka.

[12][15] Ukraine as defending champions were severely weakened due to the absence of Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, who were both among the top-ten rated players in the world.

In their absence, the team was led by Yuliia Osmak on board one followed by former World Women's Champion Anna Ushenina, Nataliya Buksa, Inna Gaponenko and Evgeniya Doluhanova.

[12][16] Despite the fact that China was missing all four top players—Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun, Tan Zhongyi and Lei Tingjie—the young team was still competitive and had the fourth highest average rating of 2416.

Defending champions Ukraine and the top seeds India conceded a half point after former Women's World Champion Anna Ushenina was held to a draw by Kyrzgyzstan's Alexandra Samaganova on the top board and India's Vantika Agrawal split the point with Jamaica's Raehanna Brown in a queen endgame on board three.

Poland, China, Spain and Armenia scored their second 4–0 victories, while India, Hungary, United States, Bulgaria and France dropped a half point against Czech Republic, Ecuador, Philippines, Egypt and Luxembourg, respectively.

[21][24] However, the Ukrainian team snatched the match victory with wins scored by Nataliya Buksa and Inna Gaponenko on the middle boards.

[22][23] Another close match was Kazakhstan's minimal victory over Finland in which Finnish player Lauri Bederdin beat Alua Nurman and Anastasia Nazarova drew against Bibisara Assaubayeva on board one.

[21] The biggest surprise in this round was perhaps Singapore's 2½–1½ victory over Latvia thanks to wins scored by Kay Yan Eden Pang and Kun Fang both with the Black pieces.

Ekaterini Pavlidou won a roller-coaster game against Aleksandra Maltsevskaya with the three queens on the board and the black king on d3, whereas the best player at the previous Olympiad Oliwia Kiołbasa beat Marina Makropoulou to score a full point for the Polish team.

Alexandra Kosteniuk scored for the Swiss team against Harika Dronavalli on board one, but all other games finished in favour of the Indian players.

On the second board, Vaishali Rameshbabu entered into a same-colour bishop endgame that she managed to convert due to the king's superior activity despite the material parity.

On board three, American player Irina Krush found the winning 36th move after her opponent committed a blunder in an equal position (see diagram).

[33][34] Uzbekistan and Mongolia edged out Bulgaria 2½–1½ in a match wherein Afruza Khamdamova scored the only win by beating former Women's World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova.

Anna Sargsyan scored a full point for Armenia by beating Lu Miaoyi, Elina Danielian drew her game with Ni Shiqun, and Song Yuxin won for China against Mariam Mkrtchyan.

Harika Dronavalli built up a winning advantage in her game with Bibisara Assaubayeva, but gradually went down to a lost rook endgame.

On the first board in the match between Latvia and Bulgaria, Nurgyul Salimova found a tactical opportunity to convert her advantage by trapping the opponent's queen (see diagram).

[37][38] In the other matches involving strong teams, Georgia edged out Uzbekistan 2½–1½, Poland beat Turkey 3–1, and Azerbaijan played a 2–2 tie with Ukraine.

[41] Georgia scored a similar victory over Mongolia thanks to Salome Melia's strong endgame technique in her win against Erdenebayar Khuslen on the fourth board.

[45] Vaishali played a game in which she was never worse but lost her advantage before finally defeating Lela Javakhishvili, while Vantika made complications on move 21 with only 33 seconds on the clock.

Alina Kashlinskaya scored a full point for the Polish team on board one by defeating Yuliia Osmak in the time trouble (see diagram).

[50] Alina Kashlinskaya defeated Harika Dronavalli and Monika Soćko scored a full point against Vaishali R on the top two boards to put the Polish team in a commanding lead.

Divya Deshmukh bounced back with a win over Aleksandra Maltsevskaya on board three, and Vantika Agrawal ended up in a must-win situation.

[51][52][53] Kazakhstan have also benefited from India's loss and joined the leaders with a narrow 2½–1½ victory over France because of wins scored by Bibisara Assaubayeva over Deimantė Cornette and Alua Nurman against Pauline Guichard.

France had another chance to save the match, but Kazakh teenager Amina Kairbekova escaped from a lost position and drew her game.

[56] Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova scored a win for the United States after Vaishali Rameshbabu had blundered a two-move tactic, whereas Carissa Yip made a draw with Divya Deshmukh.

Alua Nurman, who secured Kazakhstan's victory over Poland in the previous round, proved to be pivotal for her team once again after drawing a worse position against Bella Khotenashvili.

Oliwia Kiołbasa defeated Hanna Marie Klek on the lowest board to score for the Polish team in the only decisive game.

The Kazakh team had chances to win the match as Alua Nurman won a pawn after Alice Lee missed a tactic.

[65] India won the gold medal in the Women's event with a total of 19 match points, having recorded nine wins, one draw and one loss.