British Mathematical Olympiad

News: IMO 2014 results (11 July 2014)

The IMO papers were sat on 8 and 9 July. The results of the UK team members are shown below. We obtained four Silver and two Bronze medals and a score of 142 out of 252, coming 20th out of 101 participating countries. The medal boundaries were for 29 for Gold, 22 for Silver and 16 for Bronze.

Name Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5Q6TotalMedal
Joe Benton 7 5 1 7 4 024Silver Medal
Gabriel Gendler 7 6 0 7 2 022Silver Medal
Frank Han 7 4 0 7 2 020Bronze Medal
Freddie Illingworth 5 7 0 7 2 021Bronze Medal
Warren Li 7 7 0 7 7 028Silver Medal
Harvey Yau 7 6 0 7 7 027Silver Medal

The team leaves Cape Town on Sunday 13 July and arrives back in the UK on Monday 14 July. The achievements of this year’s UK olympiad teams will be celebrated at the Royal Society on Thursday 25 September, when Professor Bernard Silverman FRS will give the 37th annual IMO lecture, on “Mathematics and Science in the Home Office”.

Our thanks to this year’s IMO supporter, Oxford Asset Management.


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