Bulgarian Teenagers Sweep Medals at World Physics Olympiad

Society | August 14, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

Bulgaria already boasts two medallists from the World Physics Olympiad after the country's team won surprise victory in the international mathematics competition. Two graduates of the foreign languages school in Stara Zagora, 233km southeast of Sofia, brought a silver and bronze medals after the Olympiad in Taiwan.

Stanimir Rachev and Dimo Arnaudov competed with the world's best 53 teams of young physicists.

Both insist they currently plan to build careers at home rather than dreaming of making it big abroad. The medallists will take a physics degree course at the Sofia University starting in October.

According to them, the problems at the Olympiad were daunting. The two told Bulgarian media that usually one in hundred physics students succeeds to solve such problems.

Together with school mate Pavel Penev, Ralchev and Arnaudov are the nucleus of Bulgaria's physics team. The squad also features two more boys - from Gabrovo and Pavlikeni.

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