Romanian pupils win six medals at Balkan Mathematical Olympiad
Romanian pupils won one gold medal, one silver medal and four bronze medals at the 44th edition of the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (BMO 2026), taking place from 3 to 8 May in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The medal winners were Andrei Vila from the International High School of Informatics in Bucharest, who won gold, David-Vlad Marghidan from the same school, who was awarded the silver medal, while bronze medals were awarded to Mircea Maxim Rebengiuc from the 'Tudor Vianu' National College of Informatics in Bucharest, Stefan-Catalin Savu from the 'Ion Luca Caragiale' National College in Ploiesti, and Aida Mitroi and Alexandru Ciobotea from the International High School of Informatics in Bucharest.
The Romanian team was coordinated by professors Catalin Gherghe from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Bucharest and Ovidiu Sontea from the 'Tudor Vianu' National College in Bucharest.
BMO 2026 brought together teams from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, North Macedonia, Montenegro, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Turkey as member countries, alongside invited teams from Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, France, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and UK.
The Olympiad was coordinated by the Olympiads, Competitions, Partnerships and Extracurricular Education Directorate within the Ministry of Education and Research, through inspector Elisabeta Ana Naghi.
The Ministry of Education and Research supports the participation of the country's national teams in international olympiads by covering participation fees, travel expenses and daily allowances for the duration of their stay. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Roberto Stan; EN - writing by: Adina Panaitescu)
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