page_title: List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants
section_title: Exceptionally young participants
hierarchical_section_title: List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants / Exceptionally young participants
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken in Memphis, TN in March of 2006 at the Erdos Memorial Conference.
context_page_description: The International Mathematical Olympiad is an annual international high school mathematics competition focused primarily on pre-collegiate mathematics, and is the oldest of the international science olympiads. The awards for exceptional performance include medals for roughly the top half participants, and honorable mentions for participants who solve at least one problem perfectly.
  This is a list of participants who have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematicians, participants who won medals at an exceptionally young age, or participants who scored highly.
context_section_description: Bronze medal
  Terence Tao (Australia), in 1986 at age 10 years, 363 days
  Raúl Chávez Sarmiento (Peru), in 2009 at age 11 years, 271 days
  Akshay Venkatesh (Australia), in 1994 at age 12 years, 241 days
  Silver medal
  Terence Tao (Australia), in 1987 at age 11 years, 364 days
  Raúl Chávez Sarmiento (Peru), in 2010 at age 12 years, 263 days
  Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2007 at age 13 years, 10 months
  Gold medal
  Terence Tao (Australia), in 1988 at age 13 years, 4 days
  Raúl Chávez Sarmiento (Peru), in 2011 at age 13 years, 273 days
  Ömer Cerrahoğlu (Romania), in 2009 at age 14 years, 80 days
  Perfect score
  Pawel Kröger (East Germany), in 1972 at age 13 years, 354 days
  Noam Elkies (United States), in 1981 at age 14 years, 329 days
  Sergei Konyagin (Soviet Union), in 1972 at age 15 years, 83 days
  Vladimir Drinfeld (Soviet Union), in 1969 at age 15 years, 156 days
caption: Terence Tao is the youngest bronze, silver, and gold medalist, respectively, in IMO history.
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