One of the leaders of the Bulgarian shows the poster from the Olympiad at the Sofia airport where the team was welcomed by a crowd of journalists, friends and families. Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia Photo Agency)
The three Bulgarian students, who one silver and two gold medals at the 19th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), came back to Sofia on Thursday.
The Olympiad concluded at Zagreb in Croatia on Wednesday.
Iskren Chernev and Rostislav Rumenov won the gold medals for Bulgaria. The silver went to Emil Ibrishimov. Vhernev scored 424 points, Rumenov followed behind with 391 and Ibrishimov notched up 299 points.
The team was led by Emil Kelevedjiev from the Informatics and mathematics institute with the Bulgarian Academy of sciences and Stoyan Kapralov, professor in the Technical University in Gabrovo
Seventy-seven countries participated in the IOI and in terms of aggregate score, the Bulgarian team ranked 6th.
The IOI is one of the most prominent computer science competitions in the world. The Competition Tasks are of an algorithm nature, however the contestants have to show basic skills as problem analysis, design of the algorithm needed, data structures, as well as programming and testing of their solutions.