Introduction: International success for female athletes of a country, like men in international competitions, strengthens the image and reputation of that country at the global level. Apart from technical and sports issues, women's championship sports is a cultural, social and political category whose growth and development in any country reflects the social, cultural and political behavior of all spectrums of society towards women's sports. In this regard, Daniel Reiche (2016) in new studies by examining the causes of failure and success of countries in the Olympic Games, divided the factors of sports success into two groups of general factors (wealth, population, geography and ideology) and specific factors (early and fast learning , specialization, institutionalization of sports and the development of women's sports) has divided that the main purpose of this article is to investigate the role of the development factor of women's championship sports, especially women of Islamic countries, in international sports success.
Methodology: The information for this review study has been extracted from published research on factors affecting international success in championship sports and the impact of the development of women's championship sports, especially in Muslim countries, on international success.
Results: The review of the research showed that Islamic countries cannot compete with other countries in the international sports arena without promoting or developing women's championship sports. Based on the results of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, it was shown that the gender gap score of a country predicts Olympic medals for women and men. Also, by examining the gender gap score in four components (economic, political, health and educational equality), it was found that gender equality increases national performance in the Olympics and educational equality is the best predictor of Olympic medals for women and men. Overall, "gender equality is a win-win that allows both sexes to realize their true potential".
Conclusion: The progress of women's sports largely depends on the support of governments and sports managers. However, even in countries with abundant resources and the will to modernize, women face major cultural barriers. Iran and other Islamic countries live in the age of globalization. For this reason, their thinking should be global and their culture, economy, politics and social life should be international. In addition, the positive and negative effects of this process should be well known so that its positive effects can be used to facilitate its economic, social, cultural, etc. development in society and its negative effects can also be controlled and turned into opportunities.