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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 ...
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Honorable Mention Gold in Last 10 Contests (updated till 2023) 1 China: 180 36 6 2 51 2 United States [2]: 141 118 30
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, ... there were 43 female and 1295 male gold medal winners.
The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. Seven countries entered – Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union – with the hosts finishing as the top-ranked nation. [4] The number of participating countries has since risen: 14 countries took part in 1969, 50 in 1989, and 104 in 2009.
Fields Medal. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award honours the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.
Zhuo Qun Song (Chinese: 宋卓群; pinyin: Sòng Zhuōqún; born 1997), also called Alex Song, is a Chinese-born Canadian who is currently the most highly decorated International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal.
In her junior and senior years of high school, she won the gold medal for mathematics in the Iranian National Olympiad, thus allowing her to bypass the national college entrance exam. [15] In 1994, Mirzakhani became the first Iranian woman to win a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong, scoring 41 out of 42 points. [16]
Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal, respectively. Tao remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, having won the gold medal at the age of 13 in 1988. [22]