Syria wins two silver and bronze medals and three certificates of appreciation in the International Mathematics Olympiad

Students of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad for Mathematics won two silver and bronze medals and three certificates of appreciation in the International Olympiad for Mathematics (IMO). The Olympiad was organized remotely by Russia over two days last week, with the participation of 622 students from 114 countries.

The Excellence and Creativity Commission said in a statement on Sunday that the silver medal was won by Ali Firas Bakur, a student of the second grade of secondary school in “Aleppo” and Abdel-Karim Nabil Al-Sayed Ramadan from the third grade of secondary school in “Damascus,” while the bronze medal was won by student Hussein Hayan Khalil from the second grade of the secondary school in “Tartous”.

As for the certificates of appreciation, they were obtained by Ala Al-Din Madian Ahmed, a student from the second grade of secondary school from “Aleppo”, Muhammad Fu’ad Ziyad al-Moueen, from the third grade of secondary school in  “Aleppo,” and Khalil Khair al-Din Tarsha al-Kurdi from the third grade of secondary  school in “Aleppo”.

The Commission pointed out that this is the largest outcome of the awards which were harvested by the Olympiad students at the global level, as Syria advanced in the world ranking of mathematics from the 55th rank to the 47th rank.

The World Mathematics Olympiad, which took place on the twenty-first and twenty-second of this month, included two rounds of exams, each lasting four and a half hours. It  included a set of high-level questions in mathematics. The required technical measures were taken by the organizing committee of the Olympiad in Russia, including filming live video of students passing  exams from the designated center in Damascus.

Inas Abdulakreem