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
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Name | Team(s) | Year | Awards | Age (on final day of IMO) |
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Terence Tao | ![]() |
1986 | Bronze | 10 years, 363 days |
Raúl Chávez Sarmiento | ![]() |
2009 | Bronze | 11 years, 271 days |
Terence Tao | ![]() |
1987 | Silver | 11 years, 364 days |
Tsz Fung Chui | ![]() |
2020 | Silver | 12 years, 156 days |
Akshay Venkatesh | ![]() |
1994 | Bronze | 12 years, 241 days |
Yeoh Zi Song | ![]() |
2014 | Bronze | 12 years, 245 days |
Raúl Chávez Sarmiento | ![]() |
2010 | Silver | 12 years, 263 days |
Terence Tao | ![]() |
1988 | Gold | 13 years, 4 days |
Warren Bei | ![]() |
2021 | Silver | 13 years, 78 days |
Tsz Fung Chui | ![]() |
2021 | Gold | 13 years, 90 days |
Damjan Davkov | ![]() |
2021 | Silver | 13 years, 199 days |
Jeremy Kahn | ![]() |
1983 | Silver | 13 years, 259 days |
Raúl Chávez Sarmiento | ![]() |
2011 | Gold | 13 years, 273 days |
Pawel Kröger | ![]() |
1972 | Perfect Score | 13 years, 354 days |
Pasin Manurangsi | ![]() |
2007 | Silver | 13 years, 359 days |
Warren Bei | ![]() |
2022 | Gold | 14 years, 66 days |
Ömer Cerrahoğlu | ![]() |
2009 | Gold | 14 years, 80 days |
Pipitchaya Sridam | ![]() |
2021 | Gold | 14 years, 136 days |
William Cheah | ![]() |
2023 | Silver | 14 years, 181 days |
Damjan Davkov | ![]() |
2022 | Silver | 14 years, 187 days |
Harvey Yau | ![]() |
2014 | Silver | 14 years, 190 days |
Jeremy Kahn | ![]() |
1984 | Silver | 14 years, 258 days |
Lisa Sauermann | ![]() |
2007 | Silver | 14 years, 309 days |
Noam Elkies | ![]() |
1981 | Perfect Score | 14 years, 329 days |
Pasin Manurangsi | ![]() |
2008 | Gold | 14 years, 351 days |
Aleksandr Khazanov | ![]() |
1994 | Perfect Score | 15 years, 77 days |
Sergei Konyagin | ![]() |
1972 | Perfect Score | 15 years, 83 days |
Ethan Yong-Ern Tan | ![]() |
2018 | Gold | 15 years, 125 days |
Simon P. Norton | ![]() |
1967 | Gold | 15 years, 135 days |
Vladimir Drinfeld | ![]() |
1969 | Perfect Score | 15 years, 156 days |
Damjan Davkov | ![]() |
2023 | Gold | 15 years, 184 days |
Yuliy Sannikov | ![]() |
1994 | Perfect Score | 15 years, 259 days |
High-scoring participants
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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.)
Name | Team(s) | Years | |||||
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Zhuo Qun Song | ![]() |
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 P |
Teodor von Burg | ![]() |
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
Lisa Sauermann | ![]() |
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 P | |
Nipun Pitimanaaree | ![]() |
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
Christian Reiher | ![]() |
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
Luke Robitaille | ![]() |
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
Reid W. Barton | ![]() |
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 P | ||
Wolfgang Burmeister | ![]() |
1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 P | 1971 | |
Iurie Boreico | ![]() |
2003 | 2004 | 2005 P | 2006 P | 2007 | |
Lim Jeck | ![]() |
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 P | 2013 | |
Martin Härterich | ![]() |
1985 | 1986 | 1987 P | 1988 | 1989 | |
László Lovász | ![]() |
1963 | 1964 | 1965 P | 1966 P | ||
József Pelikán | ![]() |
1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 P | ||
Nikolay Nikolov | ![]() |
1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 P | ||
Kentaro Nagao | ![]() |
1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | ||
Vladimir Barzov | ![]() |
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||
Peter Scholze | ![]() |
2004 | 2005 P | 2006 | 2007 | ||
Pranjal Srivastava | ![]() |
2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
Makoto Soejima | ![]() |
2005 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 P | ||
Alex Gunning | ![]() |
2012 | 2013 | 2014 P | 2015 | ||
Andrew Carlotti | ![]() |
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||
Simon Norton | ![]() |
1967 | 1968 | 1969 P | |||
John Rickard | ![]() |
1975 P | 1976 | 1977 P | |||
Sergei Ivanov | ![]() |
1987 P | 1988 | 1989 P | |||
Theodor Banica | ![]() |
1989 | 1990 | 1991 | |||
Eugenia Malinnikova | ![]() |
1989 | 1990 P | 1991 P | |||
Sergey Norine | ![]() |
1994 P | 1995 P | 1996 | |||
Yuliy Sannikov | ![]() |
1994 P | 1995 | 1996 | |||
Ciprian Manolescu | ![]() |
1995 P | 1996 P | 1997 P | |||
Ivan Ivanov | ![]() |
1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |||
Nikolai Dourov | ![]() |
1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |||
Tamás Terpai | ![]() |
1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |||
Stefan Hornet | ![]() |
1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |||
Vladimir Dremov | ![]() |
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |||
Mihai Manea | ![]() |
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | |||
Tiankai Liu | ![]() |
2001 | 2002 | 2004 | |||
Oleg Golberg | ![]() ![]() |
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |||
Béla András Rácz | ![]() |
2002 | 2003 | 2004 P | |||
Andrey Badzyan | ![]() |
2002 | 2003 | 2004 P | |||
Rosen Kralev | ![]() |
2003 | 2004 | 2005 P | |||
Przemysław Mazur | ![]() |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |||
Tak Wing Ching | ![]() |
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |||
Chung Song Hong | ![]() |
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |||
Dong Ryul Kim | ![]() |
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |||
Allen Liu | ![]() |
2014 | 2015 | 2016 P | |||
Sheldon Kieren Tan | ![]() |
2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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 |
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Grigory Margulis | ![]() | S 1962 | 1978 | 2005 | 2020 | |||
George Lusztig | ![]() | S 1963, S 1962 | 1985 (Cole algebra) | |||||
Henryk Iwaniec | ![]() | S 1966, 1965 | 2002 (Cole number theory) | |||||
László Lovász | ![]() | P 1966, P 1965, G 1964, S 1963 | 1999 | 1982, 2012 (Fulkerson) | 2021 | |||
Andrei Suslin | ![]() | G 1967 | 2000 (Cole algebra) | |||||
János Pintz | ![]() | B 1969, P 1968,B 1967 | 2014 (Cole number theory) | |||||
Vladimir Drinfeld | ![]() | P 1969 | 1990 | 2018 | ||||
Andrei Zelevinsky | ![]() | S 1969 | 2018 (Steele) | |||||
Alexander Merkurjev | ![]() | S 1972 | 2012 (Cole algebra) | |||||
Pierre-Louis Lions | ![]() | 1973 | 1994 | |||||
János Kollár | ![]() | P 1974, G 1973 | 2006 (Cole algebra) | |||||
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz | ![]() | P 1974, S 1973 | 1994 | |||||
Sergey Fomin | ![]() | S 1974 | 2018 (Steele) | |||||
Paul Vojta | ![]() | P 1975 | 1992 (Cole number theory) | |||||
Alexander Goncharov | ![]() | G 1976 | 1992 | |||||
Richard Borcherds | ![]() | G 1978, S 1977 | 1998 | 1992 | ||||
Timothy Gowers | ![]() | P 1981 | 1998 | 1996 | ||||
Peter Kronheimer | ![]() | S 1981 | 2007 (Veblen) | |||||
Michel Goemans | ![]() | 1981, 1982 | 2000 (Fulkerson) | |||||
Gábor Tardos | ![]() | S 1982, S 1981, 1979 | 1992 | |||||
Grigori Perelman | ![]() | P 1982 | 2006[3] | 1996[4] | ||||
Alexis Bonnet | ![]() | S 1984, S 1983 | 1996 | |||||
Laurent Lafforgue | ![]() | S 1985, S 1984 | 2002 | 2000 | ||||
Daniel Tătaru | ![]() | P 1985, P 1984 | 2002 (Bôcher) | |||||
Zoltán Szabó | ![]() | S 1985 | 2007 (Veblen) | |||||
Jeremy Kahn | ![]() | G 1986, G 1985, S 1984, S 1983 | 2012 | |||||
Ricardo Pérez-Marco | ![]() | S 1986, 1985 | 1996 | |||||
Dominic Joyce | ![]() | S 1986 | 2000 | |||||
Stanislav Smirnov | ![]() | P 1987, P 1986 | 2010 | 2004 | 2001 | |||
Terence Tao | ![]() | G 1988, S 1987, B 1986 | 2006 | 2002 (Bôcher) | 2003 | |||
Elon Lindenstrauss | ![]() | B 1988 | 2010 | 2004 | 2001 (Blumenthal) | |||
Ngô Bảo Châu | ![]() | G 1989, P 1988 | 2010 | 2004 | ||||
Emmanuel Grenier | ![]() | B 1989 | 2000 | |||||
Vincent Lafforgue | ![]() | P 1991, P 1990 | 2000 | |||||
Eugenia Malinnikova | ![]() | P 1991, P 1990, G 1989 | 2017 | |||||
Akshay Venkatesh | ![]() | B 1994 | 2018 | |||||
Artur Avila | ![]() | G 1995 | 2014 | 2008 | ||||
Emmanuel Breuillard | ![]() | G 1995 | 2012 | |||||
Ben J. Green | ![]() | S 1995, S 1994 | 2008 | 2004 | ||||
Maryam Mirzakhani | ![]() | P 1995, G 1994 | 2014 | 2009 (Blumenthal) | 2014 | |||
Bo'az Klartag | ![]() | S 1996 | 2008 | |||||
Ciprian Manolescu | ![]() | P 1997, P 1996, P 1995 | 2012 | |||||
Adrian Ioana | ![]() | S 1999 | 2012 | |||||
Mark Braverman | ![]() | G 2000, B 1999, B 1998 | 2016 | |||||
Ana Caraiani | ![]() | G 2003, G 2002, S 2001 | 2020 | |||||
Kaisa Matomäki | ![]() | 2003, 2002 | 2020 | |||||
Joaquim Serra | ![]() | 2004 | 2020 | |||||
Simion Filip | ![]() | S 2005, B 2004 | 2020 | |||||
Peter Scholze | ![]() | 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.
Name | Team | IMO | Nevanlinna Prize | Knuth Prize | Gödel Prize |
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László Lovász | ![]() | P 1966, P 1965, G 1964, S 1963 | 1999 | 2001 | |
László Babai | ![]() | P 1968, S 1967, S 1966 | 2015 | 1993 | |
Johan Håstad | ![]() | G 1977 | 1994, 2011 | ||
Peter Shor | ![]() | S 1977 | 1998 | 1999 | |
Alexander Razborov | ![]() | G 1979 | 1990 | 2007 | |
Subhash Khot | ![]() | S 1995, S 1994 | 2014 | ||
See also
Notes
- "International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)".
- "47th International Mathematical Olympiad Results".
- Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture, but he declined the Medal.
- Perelman was awarded an EMS prize for his proof of the Soul theorem, but he declined the prize.
References
- Olson, Steve (2004). Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-25141-3.
- Lord, Mary (2001). "Michael Jordans of Math". U.S. News & World Report.