Artem Uskov (FID) is World Youth Rapid Chess Champion U16. Artem Uskov was the rating favorite and won the event with 9,5/11. Second place is for Fedor Melnikov (FID), third is Livio Cancedda-Dupuis (ENG) Replay all games here
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World Youth Rapid Chess Championship U16 final standings
| 1 | IM | Uskov, Artem | FID | 2405 | 9.5 |
| 2 | CM | Melnikov, Fedor | FID | 2320 | 9 |
| 3 | Cancedda-Dupuis, Livio | ENG | 2144 | 7.5 | |
| 4 | FM | Morkunas, Gustas | LTU | 2278 | 7 |
| 5 | Rumyantsev, Semen | FID | 2313 | 7 | |
| 6 | FM | Warchol, Kamil | POL | 2199 | 6.5 |
| 7 | IM | Mamedov, Edgar | KAZ | 2361 | 6.5 |
| 8 | Tregubenko, Nikolay | FID | 2068 | 6 | |
| 9 | FM | Kozlovic, Jernej | SLO | 2194 | 6 |
| 10 | CM | Sava, Robert-Gabriel | ROU | 2108 | 6 |
| 11 | Rustemov, Gurbanmyrat | TKM | 1888 | 6 | |
| 12 | Tran, Ngoc Minh Duy | VIE | 2039 | 6 | |
| 13 | CM | Abdallah, Mohamed Khalil | TUN | 1998 | 5.5 |
| 14 | Skembris, Simon Max | GER | 1696 | 5.5 | |
| 15 | AFM | Stathatos, Alexandros | GRE | 1929 | 5.5 |
| 16 | ACM | Prasanth, Rishi | GER | 1793 | 5.5 |
| 17 | Choullis, Agisilaos Georgios | GRE | 1561 | 5 | |
| 18 | Ovezov, Begench | TKM | 1881 | 5 | |
| 19 | Wimmer, Michael | AUT | 2032 | 4.5 | |
| 20 | AIM | Li, Zhengfei | RSA | 1719 | 4.5 |
| 21 | AFM | Deliezos, Anastasios | GRE | 1571 | 4.5 |
| 22 | Chorosinski, Daniel | BEL | 1818 | 4.5 | |
| 23 | Chun, Junhyun | KOR | 1610 | 4 | |
| 24 | Gabsi, Ahmed Rayen | TUN | 1526 | 4 | |
| 25 | Yang, Alex | RSA | 1516 | 1 | |
| 26 | Oosthuizen, Ethan | RSA | 1509 | 1 |
