TOKYO, July 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese college students gained six gold medals on the sixty fourth International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Chiba, Japan, which ended on Wednesday, bagging a staff gold medal for the fifth consecutive yr with a complete of 240 factors.
According to IMO guidelines, not more than six college students from every nation or area can take part within the annual competitors, and the contestants should resolve six issues inside two consecutive days, with every drawback value 7 factors, making 42 factors the utmost doable rating.
Team China’s two contestants, Wang Chunji and Shi Haojia, gained the gold medal with full marks, and 4 different excessive schoolers additionally walked away with gold medals, securing Team China’s first place.
Qu Zhenhua, deputy head of the Chinese delegation, advised Xinhua that the six college students carried out steady within the competitors, which exceeded their expectations.
The IMO is an annual worldwide arithmetic competitors for pre-collegiate college students. Over 600 college students from greater than 100 international locations and areas participated on this yr’s occasion in Japan.