Sources have added that for the second year in a row, the U.S. team has won first place at the 57th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Hong Kong, July 6-16th and the IMO is the World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School students, where the brightest mathematics students from more than 100 countries compete.
It is stated that the winning U.S. team score was 214 out of a possible 252, ahead of South Korea (207) and China (204) and the members of the winning 2016 U.S. team were Ankan Bhattacharya, Ashwin Sah, Michael Kural, Allen Liu, Junyao Peng and Yuan Yao, all of whom were awarded gold medals for their individual scores.
Po Shen Loh, lead coach for the U.S. team and associate professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University has told that they are very excited to bring home another first place IMO award, which serves as a recognition for the high standard of mathematical creativity and problem solving capabilities we have in our country.
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