International Physics Olympiad

The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) is a physics competition for secondary school students and is one of the International Olympiads. The main aim of IPhO is to test the highest level of knowledge, critical thinking, problem solving, right practices of presentation and analysis, and hands-on skills in theoretical and experimental physics. 

The first IPhO was organized by Prof. Czesław Ścisłowski in Warsaw (Poland) in 1967. Since then, the Olympiad has been organized annually in different countries as a 9-10-days competition wherein national teams comprising a maximum of five of their best physics students and two team leaders participate.

 Overview 
NumberYearHost CountryHost City11967PolandWarsaw21968HungaryBudapest31969CzechoslovakiaBrno41970Soviet UnionMoscow51971BulgariaSofia61972RomaniaBucharest1973Not held as no country was willing to organise it.71974PolandWarsaw81975East GermanyGüstrow91976HungaryBudapest101977CzechoslovakiaHradec Králové1978Not held as no non-socialist country was ready to organise the competition without a prior, necessary long-time preparation effort.111979Soviet UnionMoscow1980Not held as no non-socialist country was ready to organise the competition without a prior, necessary long-time preparation effort.121981BulgariaVarna131982West GermanyMalente141983RomaniaBucharest151984SwedenSigtuna161985YugoslaviaPortorož171986United KingdomLondon-Harrow181987East GermanyJena191988AustriaBad Ischl201989PolandWarsaw211990NetherlandsGroningen221991CubaHavana231992FinlandHelsinki241993United StatesWilliamsburg251994ChinaBeijing261995AustraliaCanberra271996NorwayOslo281997CanadaSudbury291998IcelandReykjavík301999ItalyPadova312000United KingdomLeicester322001TurkeyAntalya332002IndonesiaBali342003TaiwanTaipei352004South KoreaPohang362005SpainSalamanca372006SingaporeSingapore382007IranIsfahan392008VietnamHanoi402009MexicoMérida412010CroatiaZagreb422011ThailandBangkok432012EstoniaTartu and Tallinn442013DenmarkCopenhagen452014KazakhstanAstana462015IndiaMumbai472016Switzerland and LiechtensteinZurich482017IndonesiaYogyakarta492018PortugalLisbon502019IsraelTel Aviv2020Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Russia-organized IdPhO 2020 was held instead as an IPhO endorsed event.512021LithuaniaVilnius (online)522022SwitzerlandHeld online; Belarus was supposed to be host but cancelled due to involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.532023JapanTokyo542024IranIsfahan552025FranceTBD562026ColombiaTBD572027HungaryTBD582028South KoreaTBD592029EcuadorTBD

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Category:Physics

Category:International science competitions