The King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity “Mawhiba” announced, through its official account on Twitter, that the Saudi women’s team won the podiums in the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, which was held in Turkey from May 10-12, after winning 6 medals, thus increasing its score during its participation. At the Olympics to 54 medals.
Medal winners
The six medal winners are:
• Ali Al-Ramadan, a third year secondary student from the Eastern Education Department, won a silver medal after a preparation trip during which he received 3,720 hours of training.
• Student Hadi Al-Aythan, from the third year of secondary school from the Eastern Education Department, won a bronze medal after intensive preparation, during which he received 3,720 hours of training.
• Student Mahdi Al-Beik, from the third year of secondary school from the Eastern Education Department, won a bronze medal after intensive preparation, during which he received 3,720 hours of training.
• Moath Al-Qahtani, the first secondary grade student from the Eastern Education Department, achieved a bronze medal, after intensive preparation during which he received 3000 hours of training.
• Student Eyad Al-Qatari, from the third year of secondary school, won a bronze medal from the Eastern Education Department, after intensive preparation, during which he received 3,720 hours of training in “Mawhiba”.
• Student Abdulrahman Nassif from the third year of secondary school from the Madinah Education Department won a bronze medal after intensive preparation, during which he received 4440 hours of training in “Mawhiba”.
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Balkan Mathematical Olympiad
It should be noted that the Balkan Mathematics Olympiad is an annual mathematics competition, usually held at the beginning of May of each year, organized by the countries of the Balkans and Cyprus, and it is allowed to invite some countries from outside this region to participate, and it was launched in the year 1984 AD, when its first session was organized by the State of Greece And similar to the systems in force in the International Mathematics Olympiad, where each team participates with a number not exceeding six students, provided that none of them has received any university education, and the age of one of them does not exceed twenty years, and the Kingdom participates annually in this competition starting from the year 2010 AD And she was unable to participate in the year 2013 because her date conflicted with the final preparations for the International Olympics.
The mathematics competition for the Balkan countries is considered one of the oldest competitions in the world, as it gains its importance from the strength of the participating countries and their pioneering role in establishing the International Mathematics Olympiad in the year 1957.
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