Eduardo Guerreiro, 12th grade student at João de Deus Secondary School, in Faro, won a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiads, which took place from 9 to 16 July in Oslo, Norway.
The young Faroese was one of the four Portuguese to collect medals, in what, according to the Portuguese Mathematics Society, was «the best performance ever in Portugal in this competition», thanks to the silver medal and the three bronze medals collected by Portuguese students, to which they join and two honorable mentions.
In the competition, in which around 600 young people from 104 countries participated, Portugal was in the 44th place, ahead of countries like Denmark, Finland and Norway.
In addition to Eduardo Guerreiro, Tiago Mourão (Silver), Tiago Marques and Leonardo Tavares (Bronze) won medals. Marina Costa and Rafael Inácio deserved honorable mentions.
The Portuguese delegation was led by Joana Teles and tutored by António Salgueiro.
Portugal participated for the first time in the IMO in 1989 and, since then, has won three gold medals (in 2011, 2012 and 2013), eight silver, 40 bronze and 42 honorable mentions.
Portugal's participation in these competitions is organized by the Portuguese Society of Mathematics, and the selection and preparation of students is in charge of the Delfos Project, from the Mathematics Department of the University of Coimbra.
The Ministry of Education, Ciência Viva, Novo Banco and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation support the Olympics.
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