17/05/2018

Brazil announces team for IMO competition in Romania

The Brazilian team has been selected. Although it's not Tite's national team heading to Russia, the squad has six "athletes" of Mathematics ready to represent Brazil in the 58th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

After a series of selections, the students who will form the Brazilian team are Lucas Hiroshi Hanke Harada – São Paulo (SP), Bruno Brasil Meinhart – Fortaleza (CE), Pedro Gomes Cabral – Recife (PE), Pedro Lucas Lanaro Sponchiado – São Paulo, Bernardo Peruzzo Trevizan – Canoas (RS) and André Yuji Hisatsuga – São Paulo (SP). They will be led by Antônio Caminha – Fortaleza and vice-led by Régis Prado – São Paulo.

The team's veterans are Bruno Meinhart and André Hisatsuga, who were part of the team in 2017. Both earned honorable mentions at that time. The other four are making their IMO debut, although they have experience in other important international competitions. Bernardo Trevizan and Pedro Cabral, for example, won bronze this year at the Romanian Master of Mathematics.

Brazil at the IMO

Created in 1959, the IMO is the oldest and most prestigious scientific olympiad for high school students. Brazil has participated in the tournament since 1979. Over these 39 years, it has won 125 medals, including 9 gold, 43 silver, and 73 bronze, in addition to 32 honorable mentions.

Two researchers from IMPA won gold medals at the IMO. Artur Avila received the Fields Medal in 1995, and Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Gugu, received it in 1990.

Currently, more than one hundred countries from five continents participate in the IMO. The last edition took place in 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the initiatives of the 2017-2018 Mathematics Biennium. 623 students from 111 countries participated in the tournament. On that occasion, the Brazilian team won two silver and one bronze medal.