06/07/2018

The Brazilian national team is heading to Romania to compete in the IMO.

The Brazilian team is ready to compete in the 59th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Experts in mathematics, the students embarked for Romania on the afternoon of this Thursday (5). The competition will be held between the 8th and 14th of this month, in the city of Cluj-Napoca.

The Brazilian team consists of four students from São Paulo (SP) – Lucas Hiroshi Hanke Harada, Bernardo Peruzzo Trevizan, Pedro Lucas Lanaro Sponchiado, and André Yuji Hisatsuga – and two from Fortaleza (CE) – Bruno Brasil Meinhart and Pedro Gomes Cabral. The selection process will be led by professors Régis Prado Barbosa, from São Paulo, and Armando Barbosa Filho, from Fortaleza.

The Brazilian team's final training session concluded last weekend at Colégio Etapa, in São Paulo (SP). The preparation, which lasted 14 days, was organized by IMPA in partnership with private institutions.

In 2018, the IMO will feature more than 110 teams from around the world. Last year, the competition was held in Rio de Janeiro and set a record number of participants: 623 students from 111 countries. On that occasion, the Brazilian team won two silver medals, one bronze medal, and two honorable mentions.

Brazil at the IMO

Created in 1959, the IMO is the oldest and most prestigious scientific olympiad for high school students. Brazil has participated 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, known as Gugu, received it in 1990.