British Mathematical Olympiad

News: IMO 2016 results (14 July 2016)

The IMO papers were sat on 11 and 12 July. The results of the UK team members are shown below. We obtained 2 Gold and 4 Silver medals and a score of 165 out of 252, coming 7th out of 109 participating countries. The medal boundaries were for 29 for Gold, 22 for Silver and 16 for Bronze.

Name Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5Q6TotalMedal
Joe Benton 7 7 2 7 2 126Silver Medal
Jacob Coxon 7 1 0 6 7 324Silver Medal
Lawrence Hollom 7 7 0 7 3 024Silver Medal
Warren Li 7 7 2 7 7 333Gold Medal
Neel Nanda 7 7 0 7 2 730Gold Medal
Harvey Yau 0 7 0 7 7 728Silver Medal

The achievements of this year’s UK olympiad teams will be celebrated at the Science Museum on Monday 26 September, when Dr Zuming Feng will give the 39th annual IMO lecture, on “From classroom to contest”.

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


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