International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

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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]

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The Olympiad was founded from a dissidence inside the International Astronomy Olympiad, in order to increase the scope of the organization.

History

Summary

NumberYearHost countryHost cityAbsolute winnerCountries RepresentedWinner TeamWebsite
12007Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Chiang Mai Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Suwun Suwunnarat21* 1st IOAA, 2007
22008Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Bandung Flag of India.svg  India Nitin Jain22* 2nd IOAA, 2008
32009Flag of Iran.svg  Iran Tehran Flag of India.svg  India Nitin Jain20* 3rd IOAA, 2009
42010Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Beijing Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Przemysław Mróz23* 4th IOAA [ dead link ], 2010
5 2011 Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Chorzów / Katowice / Kraków Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Stanislav Fořt 26 IOAA 2011
6 2012 Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Rio de Janeiro / Vassouras Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Motiejus Valiūnas 28 IOAA 2012
7 2013 Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Volos Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Denis Turcu 35 * 7th IOAA Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine , 2013
8 2014 Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Suceava / Gura Humorului Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Denis Turcu 42
9 2015 Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Magelang / Semarang Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Joandy Leonata Pratama 41
10 2016 Flag of India.svg  India Bhubaneswar Flag of India.svg  India Ameya Patwardhan 42 IOAA 2016
11 2017 Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Phuket Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Aleksej Jurca 44 IOAA 2017
12 2018 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Beijing Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Stanislav Tsapaev 39 IOAA 2018 Archived 2019-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
13 2019 Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Keszthely & Hévíz Flag of Iran.svg  Iran Amirreza Hobubi46 Flag of Iran.svg  Iran IOAA 2019
N/A [a] 2020Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia [b] N/AFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Zhening Li40Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada GeCAA
14 2021 Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Bogotá (online) Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Maksim Permiakov 48 Flag of Russia.svg  Russia IOAA 2021
15 2022 Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia Kutaisi Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Vlad Ștefan Oros 45 Flag of Iran.svg  Iran IOAA 2022
16 2023 Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Chorzów / Katowice Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Peter Andolšek 52 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom IOAA 2023
17 2024 Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Vassouras Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Peter Andolšek 54 Flag of Iran.svg  Iran IOAA 2024
18 2025 Flag of India.svg  India Mumbai Will be available after the event Soon IOAA 2025
  1. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IOAA 2020 was replaced by an online competition: the Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics (GeCAA).
  2. The GeCAA was organized by the IOAA International Board with extensive support from the Estonian Astronomy Olympiad Committee.

The 1st IOAA-Jr, for the students under 16 years of age was held in Romania from 30 October to 7 November 2022. The 2nd IOAA-Jr was held in Volos, Greece from 24 to 30 September 2023, and its age restriction was lowered to students under 15. [3] The 3rd IOAA-Jr will be hosted by Kathmandu, Nepal from 3 to 10 October 2024.

Participating Countries

Source: https://www.ioaastrophysics.org/participating-countries/

Results

Source: https://www.ioaastrophysics.org/results/

Prize winners

High-scoring participants

The following table lists multiple (triple and more) gold medal winners of IOAA with their ranks and corresponding years.

NameTeam(s)Years
Peter Andolšek Slovenia 2021 (29th)2022 (10th)2023 (1st)2024 (1st)
Amirreza Hobubi Iran 2017 (1st)2018 (1st)2019 (1st)2020(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)

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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References

  1. "About IOAA".
  2. "1st IOAA". ioaastrophysics.org. 2007. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. 2nd IOAA JR 2023 https://ioaajr2023.gr/ . Retrieved 1 October 2023.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)