The best Bulgarian students in informatics have made a brilliant performance and won 2 gold and 2 silver medals from the most prestigious global informatics contest in the world. Their success this year is the best Bulgarian performance in the history of the International Olympiad in Informatics as in the unofficial team ranking Bulgaria is ranked 4th in the world, ahead of the USA and Japan.
The 37th edition of the Olympiad, which was held in Bolivia from July 27 to August 3, was attended by 330 contestants from 86 countries.
The gold medals went to Vesselin Markovich (12th grade, High School of Mathematics, Varna) and Alexander Gatev (12th grade, Sofia High School of Mathematics – SMG). The silver medals went to Andrey Stefanov (10th grade, First Private High School of Mathematics – Sofia) and Boris Mihov (12th grade, SMG). Their supervisors are Iliyan Yordanov from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS and Viktor Kozhuharov.
The idea of the International Olympiad in Informatics is Bulgarian. In 1987, Acad. Blagovest Sendov proposed its creation to the 24th General Conference of UNESCO. Already in 1989, the first edition of the Olympiad was held in Pravets and its first chairman was Acad. Petar Kenderov.
Photo: Natural Sciences Olympic Teams Association
