List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual international high school mathematics competition focused primarily on pre-collegiate mathematics , and is the oldest of the international science olympiads .[ 1] The awards for exceptional performance include medals for roughly the top half participants, and honorable mentions for participants who solve at least one problem perfectly.[ 2]
This is a list of participants who have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematicians , participants who won medals at an exceptionally young age, or participants who scored highly.
Exceptionally young medalists
Terence Tao is the youngest bronze, silver, and gold medalist, respectively, in IMO history.
Name
Team(s)
Year
Awards
Age (on final day of IMO)
Terence Tao
Australia
1986
Bronze
10 years, 363 days
Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
Peru
2009
Bronze
11 years, 271 days
Terence Tao
Australia
1987
Silver
11 years, 364 days
Alex Chui
Hong Kong
2020
Silver
12 years, 156 days
Akshay Venkatesh
Australia
1994
Bronze
12 years, 241 days
Yeoh Zi Song
Malaysia
2014
Bronze
12 years, 245 days
Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
Peru
2010
Silver
12 years, 263 days
Terence Tao
Australia
1988
Gold
13 years, 4 days
Warren Bei
Canada
2021
Silver
13 years, 78 days
Alex Chui
Hong Kong
2021
Gold
13 years, 90 days
Damjan Davkov
North Macedonia
2021
Silver
13 years, 199 days
Jeremy Kahn
United States
1983
Silver
13 years, 259 days
Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
Peru
2011
Gold
13 years, 273 days
Pawel Kröger
East Germany
1972
Perfect Score
13 years, 354 days
Pasin Manurangsi
Thailand
2007
Silver
13 years, 359 days
Warren Bei
Canada
2022
Gold
14 years, 66 days
Ömer Cerrahoğlu
Romania
2009
Gold
14 years, 80 days
Pipitchaya Sridam
Thailand
2021
Gold
14 years, 136 days
William Cheah
Australia
2023
Silver
14 years, 181 days
Damjan Davkov
North Macedonia
2022
Silver
14 years, 187 days
Harvey Yau
United Kingdom
2014
Silver
14 years, 190 days
Jeremy Kahn
United States
1984
Silver
14 years, 258 days
Lisa Sauermann
Germany
2007
Silver
14 years, 309 days
Noam Elkies
United States
1981
Perfect Score
14 years, 329 days
Pasin Manurangsi
Thailand
2008
Gold
14 years, 351 days
Aleksandr Khazanov
United States
1994
Perfect Score
15 years, 77 days
Sergei Konyagin
Soviet Union
1972
Perfect Score
15 years, 83 days
Ethan Yong-Ern Tan
Australia
2018
Gold
15 years, 125 days
Simon P. Norton
United Kingdom
1967
Gold
15 years, 135 days
Vladimir Drinfeld
Soviet Union
1969
Perfect Score
15 years, 156 days
Damjan Davkov
North Macedonia
2023
Gold
15 years, 184 days
Yuliy Sannikov
Ukraine
1994
Perfect Score
15 years, 259 days
Yang Yihan
Singapore
2024
Gold
15 years, 271 days
High-scoring participants
Zhuo Qun Song, the most highly decorated IMO contestant with 5 golds and 1 bronze medal.
Ciprian Manolescu, the only person to achieve three perfect scores at the IMO (1995–1997).
The following table lists all IMO Winners who have won at least three gold medals, with corresponding years and non-gold medals received noted (P denotes a perfect score.)
Notable participants
A number of IMO participants have gone on to become notable mathematicians . The following IMO participants have either received a Fields Medal , an Abel Prize , a Wolf Prize or a Clay Research Award , awards which recognise groundbreaking research in mathematics; a European Mathematical Society Prize , an award which recognizes young researchers; or one of the American Mathematical Society 's awards (a Blumenthal Award in Pure Mathematics, Bôcher Memorial Prize in Analysis, Cole Prize in Algebra , Cole Prize in Number Theory , Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics , Steele Prize in Mathematics , or Veblen Prize in Geometry and Topology ) recognizing research in specific mathematical fields. Grigori Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems ), and Yuri Matiyasevich gave a negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem .
G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect score.
Name
Team
IMO
Fields Medal
Wolf Prize
EMS Prize
AMS research prizes
Clay Award
Abel Prize
Grigory Margulis
Soviet Union
S 1962
1978
2005
2020
George Lusztig
Romania
S 1963, S 1962
1985 (Cole algebra)
Henryk Iwaniec
Poland
S 1966, 1965
2002 (Cole number theory)
László Lovász
Hungary
P 1966, P 1965, G 1964, S 1963
1999
1982, 2012 (Fulkerson)
2021
Andrei Suslin
Soviet Union
G 1967
2000 (Cole algebra)
János Pintz
Hungary
B 1969, P 1968,B 1967
2014 (Cole number theory)
Vladimir Drinfeld
Soviet Union
P 1969
1990
2018
Andrei Zelevinsky
Soviet Union
S 1969
2018 (Steele)
Alexander Merkurjev
Soviet Union
S 1972
2012 (Cole algebra)
Pierre-Louis Lions
France
1973
1994
János Kollár
Hungary
P 1974, G 1973
2006 (Cole algebra)
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
France
P 1974, S 1973
1994
Sergey Fomin
Soviet Union
S 1974
2018 (Steele)
Paul Vojta
United States
P 1975
1992 (Cole number theory)
Alexander Goncharov
Soviet Union
G 1976
1992
Richard Borcherds
United Kingdom
G 1978, S 1977
1998
1992
Timothy Gowers
United Kingdom
P 1981
1998
1996
Peter Kronheimer
United Kingdom
S 1981
2007 (Veblen)
Michel Goemans
Belgium
1981, 1982
2000 (Fulkerson)
Gábor Tardos
Hungary
S 1982, S 1981, 1979
1992
Grigori Perelman
Soviet Union
P 1982
2006 [ 3]
1996 [ 4]
Alexis Bonnet
France
S 1984, S 1983
1996
Laurent Lafforgue
France
S 1985, S 1984
2002
2000
Daniel Tătaru
Romania
P 1985, P 1984
2002 (Bôcher)
Zoltán Szabó
Hungary
S 1985
2007 (Veblen)
Jeremy Kahn
United States
G 1986, G 1985, S 1984, S 1983
2012
Ricardo Pérez-Marco
Spain
S 1986, 1985
1996
Dominic Joyce
United Kingdom
S 1986
2000
Stanislav Smirnov
Soviet Union
P 1987, P 1986
2010
2004
2001
Terence Tao
Australia
G 1988, S 1987, B 1986
2006
2002 (Bôcher)
2003
Elon Lindenstrauss
Israel
B 1988
2010
2004
2001 (Blumenthal)
Ngô Bảo Châu
Vietnam
G 1989, P 1988
2010
2004
Emmanuel Grenier
France
B 1989
2000
Vincent Lafforgue
France
P 1991, P 1990
2000
Eugenia Malinnikova
Soviet Union
P 1991, P 1990, G 1989
2017
Akshay Venkatesh
Australia
B 1994
2018
Artur Avila
Brazil
G 1995
2014
2008
Emmanuel Breuillard
France
G 1995
2012
Ben J. Green
United Kingdom
S 1995, S 1994
2008
2004
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iran
P 1995, G 1994
2014
2009 (Blumenthal)
2014
Boáz Klartag
Israel
S 1996
2008
Ciprian Manolescu
Romania
P 1997, P 1996, P 1995
2012
Adrian Ioana
Romania
S 1999
2012
Mark Braverman
Israel
G 2000, B 1999, B 1998
2016
Ana Caraiani
Romania
G 2003, G 2002, S 2001
2020
Kaisa Matomäki
Finland
2003, 2002
2020
Simion Filip
Moldova
S 2005, B 2004
2020
Peter Scholze
Germany
G 2007, G 2006, P 2005, S 2004
2018
2016
2015 (Cole algebra)
2014
IMO medalists have also gone on to become notable computer scientists . The following IMO medalists have received a Nevanlinna Prize , a Knuth Prize , or a Gödel Prize ; these awards recognise research in theoretical computer science. G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect score.
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