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India Shines at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2025 with 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze Medals
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20 JUL 2025 9:12PM by PIB Mumbai
: Mumbai, 20th July 2025
The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai is pleased to announce that the Indian team has delivered an outstanding performance at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2025 held at Sunshine Coast, Australia. The team secured 3 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze Medal, placing India 7th among 110 countries, matching its best-ever rank achieved previously in 1998 and 2001.
This year’s IMO saw the participation of 630 students from across the world, including 69 female contestants. Notably, this is only the second time that India has won three gold medals at the IMO — the first being in 1998. Last year, India achieved a historic feat by winning four gold medals at IMO 2024. Since India’s debut at the Olympiad in 1989, the country has secured a total of 23 Gold Medals, of which 12 have been won between 2019 and 2025. Impressively, 9 of these golds came from the last three IMOs (2023, 2024, and 2025), highlighting India’s rising excellence in mathematics.
Performance Summary of Team India at IMO 2025:
The team was accompanied by Prof. Shanta Laishram (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) as the Team Leader, Dr. Mainak Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru) as the Deputy Leader, Mr. Atul Shatavart Nadig, a BS student at MIT, USA, as Observer A, and Dr. Rijul Saini as Observer B.
India also set a new national record in terms of team score, with a total of 193 out of a maximum 252 points, the highest-ever achieved by an Indian IMO team. Each student can score a maximum of 42 points, making the team total 252.
This is the third consecutive year that India has ranked among the top 10 at the IMO, with Rank 9 in 2023, Rank 4 in 2024, and Rank 7 in 2025. Overall, India has featured in the Top 10 a total of seven times in its 35 appearances at the IMO (excluding 2020, when India did not participate due to the pandemic).
The official scorecard is available here: http://www.imo-official.org/team_r.aspx?code=IND&year=2025
This year’s medal boundaries were as follows: Gold – 35 and above; Silver – 28 to 34; Bronze – 19 to 27. The IMO evaluates participants on six rigorous problems spanning topics in Algebra, Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Geometry. Problems are submitted by participating countries and shortlisted by the Problem Selection Committee (PSC), which is approved by the IMO Board and appointed by the host country. Notably, Mr. Anant Mudgal became the first Indian to serve on a PSC for an IMO not hosted by India.
The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), a national centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), serves as the nodal agency for Olympiad programmes in India. It is responsible for selecting and training students to represent the country in international Olympiads in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy & Astrophysics. Participants are selected through a rigorous national-level process conducted by HBCSE.
HBCSE will also be hosting an informal media interaction with the IMO medallists on Monday, 21st July 2025 at 12:00 Noon at Room No. G2, Main Building, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, V.N. Purav Marg, Beside Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai. Media Contact - Ms. Sumana : 9833947206.
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