The 31st Balkan Mathematical Olympiad 2014 in Pleven closed with a solemn ceremony

From 2 to 7 May 2014 the 31st Balkan Mathematical Olympiad was held in Pleven, organised by the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians and the Ministry of Education and Science, with the assistance of Nova Trade Ltd, Pleven Municipality, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Vivacom.

The ceremony of the official presentation of medals to the award-winning participants in the 31st Balkan Mathematical Olympiad 2014 took place at the “Ivan Radoev” Drama Theatre. We recall that this year’s edition was a kind of thirtieth anniversary of the international competition, held for the first time in 1984 in Greece.

Teams from 20 countries took part, including, besides the official Balkan countries, the United Kingdom, Italy, Saudi Arabia and others. 8 of the participants achieved the maximum of 40 points and received gold medals, presented to them by the mayor of Pleven, Prof. Stoykov.

In the team ranking Turkey came first, followed by the first team of Bulgaria and Romania. The awards ceremony was also attended by the chair of the Municipal Council Darin Angelov and the member of parliament Vladislav Nikolov, the secretary of the Pleven Regional Administration Emil Dimitrov, as well as municipal councillors, teachers and delegations from the participating countries. In the opinion of everyone, the organisers from the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians - Pleven section did an excellent job with the logistics and the perfect conditions for holding the event.