First Round 2024/25!
The First Round of the Swiss Mathematical Olympiad will take place in September 2024 online! Prepare for an exam full of interesting questions and puzzles and don't forget to bring your brains along! Registration (https://firstround.mathematical.olympiad.ch/) will open on the 1st of September and will be open until the end of September. You will be able to find the necessary link and all relevant info here after that date. If you would like to take the exam with your class at school, please let your teacher know they can also register.
Results will be announced in the next few days!
Mathematical Olympiad
The Mathematical Olympiad is a mathematics competition in which young people from all over Switzerland who are enthusiastic about mathematics can exchange ideas and compete against each other. The competition consists of several rounds as well as numerous preparatory meetings and a week-long camp for the finalists. Our goal is to share our enthusiasm for mathematics with young people, to support them intellectually and for them to gain valuable professional and social experience together with their peers. You can read more about the Olympiad here.
Back-to-back golds!
BACK TO BACK! After our first gold medal in 17 years in 2023, we are delighted to win our second consecutive gold medal at the IMO this year with Felix Xu's outstanding showing at the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad in Bath, England. With 30 points, Felix came 29th out of the 600+ contestants. The results in full are:
- Gold: Felix Xu, Kantonsschule Wettingen (AG)
- Bronze: Mark Neumann, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Rämibühl (ZH)
- Honourable Mention: Hongjia Meng, Kantonale Mittelschule Uri (UR)
- Honourable Mention: Louis Renner, Kantonsschule Menzingen (ZG)
- Honourable Mention: Eric Lüscher, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Rämibühl (ZH)
- Honourable Mention: Jovian Soejono, École internationale de Genève (GE)
A special mention to the Principality of Liechtenstein and their contestant Leonhard Hasler (Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium), who won an honourable mention as well.
Switzerland came 48th overall, continuing our long streak of finishing in the top 50 countries, and the team will continue to build on this string of outstanding performances, with the three youngest participants all able to continue for at least two more years.
IMO Selection 2024
The Swiss Mathematical Olympiad TST for 2024 is now complete! Congratulations to everyone who took the exam for their hard work and outstanding results. Our international teams for this summer are as follows:
| IMO 2024 in Bath, England |
| Schweiz 59 Felix Xu 51 Hongjia Meng 49 Louis Renner 47 Eric Lüscher 44 Jovian Soejono 44 Mark Neumann Liechtenstein 33 Leonhard Hasler |
| MEMO 2024 in Szeged, Hungary |
| 41 Andrej Ševera 36 Emil Spiess 32 Evelyn Ebneter 31 Francesc Oro 23 David Reichmuth 21 Svenja Felber |
Congratulations again to Felix for topping the IMO TST in his final year. With that, the Mathematical Olympiad for this year concludes! See you all in England and Hungary :)
Final Round 2024
The Final Round 2024 has now concluded! Thank you to everyone who participated and took part in both the lovely February training camp in picturesque Aarburg, and the Exam weekend in March.
A close-fought race saw two participants tie for the gold medals: congraulations to Felix Xu and Andrej Ševera for their excellent performances! The full list of awards are as follows.
| Gold | Andrej Ševera Felix Xu | 36 36 |
| Silver | Mohamed Bouchouata | 34 |
| Bronze | Louis Renner Marco Vaccaro Leonhard Hasler Jerry Schupp Hongjia Meng Evelyn Ebneter Emil Spiess | 25 24 23 22 21 18 17 |
| Wildcard | Francesc Oro David Reichmuth Irina Tikhonovskaia Eric Lüscher | 16 15 14 14 |
These participants will take part in the IMO-Selection exam in May to determine the Swiss IMO and MEMO teams.
Additionally, the Final Round determined the following teams for these upcoming international competitions:
Balkan Math Olympiad: Felix Xu, Andrej Ševera, Mohamed Bouchouata, Mark Neumann, Jovian Soejono, Ivan Voevodskiy.
Olympiade Francophone de Mathématiques Senior: Felix Xu, Andrej Ševera, Mohamed Bouchouata, Mark Neumann, Jovian Soejono, Louis Renner.
Olympiade Francophone de Mathématiques Junior: Hongjia Meng, Emil Spiess, Eric Lüscher, Austin Zhang, Svenja Felber.
Congratulations again to everyone!
Second Round Results
On Saturday morning, the second round exam took place in Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano and the corrections are now complete. This year, the cutoff to be in the top 18 and directly qualified for the Final Round was 24 points. Bravo to Jerry Schupp for their perfect score of 42 points! The following people are qualified:
| Elias Baumann | Mohamed Bouchouata | Svenja Felber | Eric Lüscher | Hongjia Meng | Mark Neumann |
| Francesc Oro | David Reichmuth | Louis Renner | Jerry Schupp | Andrej Ševera | Jovian Soejono |
| Emil Spiess | Jiahe Shi | Pranavendra Tammireddy | Marco Vaccaro | Linus VandeVondele | Felizian Vocke |
| Ivan Voevodskiy | Felix Xu | Austin Zhang |
Seven other contestants also qualified as wildcards: Janik Kobler, Noelia Cheridito, Fynn Krebser, Juri Luternauer, Evelyn Ebneter, Leonhard Hasler and Irina Tikhonovskaia.
