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
Tsz Fung 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
Tsz Fung Chui  Hong Kong 2021 Gold 13 years, 90 days
Damjan Davkov  North Macedonia 2021 Silver 13 years, 195 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
Ömer Cerrahoğlu  Romania 2009 Gold 14 years, 80 days
Pipitchaya Sridam  Thailand 2021 Gold 14 years, 136 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
Yuliy Sannikov  Ukraine 1994 Perfect Score 15 years, 259 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.)

Name Team(s) Years
Zhuo Qun Song Canada 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 P
Teodor von Burg Serbia 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Lisa Sauermann Germany 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 P
Nipun Pitimanaaree  Thailand 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Christian Reiher Germany 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Reid W. Barton United States 1998 1999 2000 2001 P
Wolfgang Burmeister East Germany 1967 1968 1969 1970 P 1971
Iurie Boreico Moldova 2003 2004 2005 P 2006 P 2007
Lim Jeck Singapore 2009 2010 2011 2012 P 2013
Martin Härterich West Germany 1985 1986 1987 P 1988 1989
László Lovász Hungary 1963 1964 1965 P 1966 P
József Pelikán Hungary 1963 1964 1965 1966 P
Nikolay Nikolov  Bulgaria 1992 1993 1994 1995 P
Kentaro Nagao Japan 1997 1998 1999 2000
Vladimir Barzov Bulgaria 1999 2000 2001 2002
Peter Scholze Germany 2004 2005 P 2006 2007
Makoto Soejima Japan 2005 2007 2008 2009 P
Alex Gunning Australia 2012 2013 2014 P 2015
Andrew Carlotti United Kingdom 2010 2011 2012 2013
Simon Norton United Kingdom 1967 1968 1969 P
John Rickard United Kingdom 1975 P 1976 1977 P
Sergei Ivanov Soviet Union 1987 P 1988 1989 P
Theodor Banica Romania 1989 1990 1991
Eugenia Malinnikova Soviet Union 1989 1990 P 1991 P
Sergey Norine Russia 1994 P 1995 P 1996
Yuliy Sannikov Ukraine 1994 P 1995 1996
Ciprian Manolescu Romania 1995 P 1996 P 1997 P
Ivan Ivanov Bulgaria 1996 1997 1998
Nikolai Dourov Russia 1996 1997 1998
Tamás Terpai Hungary 1997 1998 1999
Stefan Hornet Romania 1997 1998 1999
Vladimir Dremov Russia 1998 1999 2000
Mihai Manea Romania 1999 2000 2001
Tiankai Liu United States 2001 2002 2004
Oleg Golberg Russia ('02, '03)
United States ('04)		 2002 2003 2004
Béla András Rácz Hungary 2002 2003 2004 P
Andrey Badzyan Russia 2002 2003 2004 P
Rosen Kralev Bulgaria 2003 2004 2005 P
Przemysław Mazur Poland 2006 2007 2008
Tak Wing Ching Hong Kong 2009 2010 2011
Chung Song Hong North Korea 2011 2012 2013
Dong Ryul Kim South Korea 2012 2013 2014
Allen Liu United States 2014 2015 2016 P
Sheldon Kieren Tan Singapore 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 
 Grigory Margulis   Soviet Union  S 1962 19782005
 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 19991982, 2012 (Fulkerson)
 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 19902018
 Andrei Zelevinsky   Soviet Union  S 19692018 (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 19742018 (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 19981992
 Timothy Gowers   United Kingdom  P 1981 19981996
 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 20022000
 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 201020042001
 Terence Tao   Australia  G 1988, S 1987, B 1986 20062002 (Bôcher)2003
 Elon Lindenstrauss   Israel  B 1988 201020042001 (Blumenthal)
 Ngô Bảo Châu   Vietnam  G 1989, P 1988 20102004
 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 20142008
 Emmanuel Breuillard   France  G 1995 2012
 Ben J. Green   United Kingdom  S 1995, S 1994 20082004
 Maryam Mirzakhani   Iran  P 1995, G 1994  20142009 (Blumenthal)2014
 Bo'az 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
 Joaquim Serra   Spain  2004 2020
 Simion Filip   Moldova  S 2005, B 2004 2020
 Peter Scholze   Germany  G 2007, G 2006, P 2005, S 2004 201820162015 (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 paper.

 Name  Team  IMO   Nevanlinna Prize   Knuth Prize   Gödel Prize 
 László Lovász   Hungary  P 1966, P 1965, G 1964, S 1963 19992001
 László Babai   Hungary  P 1968, S 1967, S 1966 20151993
 Johan Håstad   Sweden  G 1977 1994, 2011
 Peter Shor   United States  S 1977 19981999
 Alexander Razborov   Soviet Union  G 1979 19902007
 Subhash Khot   India  S 1995, S 1994 2014

See also

Notes
  1. "International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)".
  2. "47th International Mathematical Olympiad Results".
  3. Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture, but he declined the Medal.
  4. Perelman was awarded an EMS prize for his proof of the Soul theorem, but he declined the prize.

References
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