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The International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) is an annual astronomy and astrophysics competition for high school students. It is one of the international science olympiads. [1]
The Olympiad was founded from a dissidence inside the International Astronomy Olympiad, in order to increase the scope of the organization.
Number | Year | Host country | Host city | Absolute winner | Countries Represented | Website |
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1 | 2007 | Thailand | Chiang Mai | Thailand Suwun Suwunnarat | 21 | * 1st IOAA, 2007 |
2 | 2008 | Indonesia | Bandung | India Nitin Jain | 22 | * 2nd IOAA, 2008 |
3 | 2009 | Iran | Tehran | India Nitin Jain | 20 | * 3rd IOAA, 2009 |
4 | 2010 | China | Beijing | Poland Przemysław Mróz | 23 | * 4th IOAA[ dead link], 2010 |
5 | 2011 | Poland | Chorzów / Katowice / Kraków | Czech Republic Stanislav Fořt | 26 | IOAA 2011 |
6 | 2012 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro / Vassouras | Lithuania Motiejus Valiūnas | 28 | IOAA 2012 |
7 | 2013 | Greece | Volos | Romania Denis Turcu | 35 | * 7th IOAA Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, 2013 |
8 | 2014 | Romania | Suceava / Gura Humorului | Romania Denis Turcu | 42 | |
9 | 2015 | Indonesia | Magelang / Semarang | Indonesia Joandy Leonata Pratama | 41 | |
10 | 2016 | India | Bhubaneswar | India Ameya Patwardhan | 42 | IOAA 2016 |
11 | 2017 | Thailand | Phuket | Slovenia Aleksej Jurca | 44 | IOAA 2017 |
12 | 2018 | China | Beijing | Russia Stanislav Tsapaev | 39 | IOAA 2018 |
13 | 2019 | Hungary | Keszthely & Hévíz | Vietnam Nguyễn Mạnh Quân | 46 | IOAA 2019 |
N/A [a] | 2020 | Estonia [b] | N/A | Canada Zhening Li | 40 | GeCAA |
14 | 2021 | Colombia | Bogotá (online) | Russia Maksim Permiakov | 48 | IOAA 2021 |
15 | 2022 | Georgia | Kutaisi | Romania Vlad Ștefan Oros | 45 | IOAA 2022 |
16 | 2023 | Poland | Chorzów / Katowice | Slovenia Peter Andolšek | 52 | IOAA 2023 |
17 | 2024 | Brazil | Vassouras | TBD |
The 1st IOAA-Jr, for the students under 16 years of age was held in Romania from 30th October to 7th November 2022. The 2nd IOAA-Jr was held in Volos, Greece from 24th to 30th September 2023, and its age restriction was lowered to students under 15. [3]
Source: https://www.ioaastrophysics.org/participating-countries/
Source: https://www.ioaastrophysics.org/results/
The following table lists multiple (triple and more) gold medal winners of IOAA with their ranks and corresponding years.
Name | Team(s) | Years | |||
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Denis Turcu | Romania | 2013 (1st) | 2014 (1st) | ||
Stanislav Fořt | Czech Republic | 2010 (8th) | 2011 (1st) | 2012 (2nd) | |
Peter Kosec | Slovakia | 2010 (5th) | 2011 (4th) | 2012 (5th) | |
Daniil Dolgov | Russia | 2016 (8th) | 2017 (3rd) | 2018 (11th) | |
Jindřich Jelínek | Czech Republic | 2016 (9th) | 2018 (5th) | 2019 (7th) | |
Peter Andolšek | Slovenia | 2021 (29th) | 2022 (10th) | 2023 (1st) |
Note: Several countries (e.g. India, Indonesia, Iran, Thailand) do not allow their students to contest in IOAA more than two times, even if they are eligible. Thus, statistics from those countries is not included in the table above.
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