In Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) has awarded the winners ended 19 July, the International mathematical Olympiad. The Russian team took 11th place in the team standings, as a schoolboy from St. Petersburg Mikhail Ivanov has received the 14th place in the individual standings, reports TASS.
Ivanov won the gold medal. “To be honest, the tour was overall harder than I expected. On the second day I had another one or ideally two tasks, but in the end I made as I could,” commented the student. According to him, he and other members of the team took seven and a half hours a day in preparation for the Olympics. To do the young man going at Saint-Petersburg state University, faculty of mathematics and mechanics.
Also in the individual competition of the Russian students won three silver and two bronze medals. During this stage of the competition, students received three problems, each was assigned an average of 1.5 hours. Then a special Commission put the students scores, and on their basis were given medals. The first three places were taken by students from Vietnam, Iran and Japan.
In the team competition, Russia won the 11-th place. Won South Korea.
In the course of communication with the children’s center “Sirius” on July 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the country has a system of incentives for trainers and teachers, the pupils became winners of competitions. According to him, if such awards do not reach the recipients, blame the appropriate administrative structure. The President promised to correct this omission,
International mathematics Olympiad has been held annually since 1959. It was first introduced in Romania and consisted of only seven participating countries. This year it was attended by 623 students from more than 100 countries.