Mumbai : 18 April 2023

India has performed exceptionally well at the 12th European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO2023) and secured two silver, one bronze and one honourable mention. The Olympiad was held in Portorož, Slovenia, from April 13 to 19, 2023. This is the third time since 2015 that India could send a team of four girls (the maximum possible strength of a team) to EGMO.

Details of the Individual performance are given below:

#	Name of the contestant	Place	Medal
1	Gunjan Aggarwal	Gurugram, Haryana	Silver
2	Sunaina Pati	Guwahati, Assam	Silver
3	Sanjana Philo Chacko	Trivandrum, Kerala	Bronze
4	Bhavya Sree N. Naga	Proddatur,Cuddapah, Andhra	Honourable Mention

The team was led by Dr. Aditi Phadke (Leader) of Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune and Mr. Rohan Goyal (Deputy Leader), B.Sc student at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) and IMO 2021 medalist (http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=31126).

The training and selection program of the Indian team to EGMO is funded by National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The team is returning to Mumbai in the early hours of Thursday, April 20, 2023. A meeting will be held at 11:30 AM on April 20, 2023 in Room G2, Main Building, HBCSE to felicitate the team.

This is the first time since 2015 (India's debut year) that two members of the Indian team won Silver medals. The first Silver medal came in 2019 and the second one in 2021. For more on India’s past performance click here.

More information is available at: https://www.egmo.org/

From Left to Right:

Gunjan Aggarwal, Sanjana Philo Chacko, Rohan Goyal, Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya (Centre Director: HBCSE-TIFR), Dr. Aditi Phadke, Sunaina Pati, Bhavya Sree N. Naga

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