The Russian team triumphantly performed at the 53 International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) Japan. All four members of the Russian team are students from Moscow and Yekaterinburg. They won gold medals in Tokyo, RIA Novosti reports.
The winners are high-schoolers Andrei Tyrin, Georgy Zhomin and Timofey Charkin from Moscow and Alexander Trofimov from Yekaterinburg. Team members have graduated from the eleventh grade this year and are going to proceed with chemistry studies at the Lomonosov MSU University.
The rector of the Lomonosov MSU Viktor Sadovnichy has congratulated the students and their teachers. He noted that young winners were trained by the teachers of the MSU faculty using a special methodology. Twenty winners of the All-Russian Olympiads for schoolchildren in chemistry took part in the 2-week training camp. The participants completed tasks in various areas of chemistry. Four best students have been selected.
As the IChO Japan website informs, the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is an annual competition for the world’s most talented chemistry students at the secondary school level. Nations around the world send a team of four students who are tested on their chemistry knowledge and skills in a five-hour laboratory practical exam and a five-hour written theoretical examination that are held on separate days with the practical examination usually being before the theoretical examination.
Russkiy Mir
