A team of six students from India won 3 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze Medal securing an overall 7th rank out of 110 countries at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2025 held in Australia.
This is the second time India won 3 Golds at the IMO after 1998. Last year (2024), the Indian team created history by winning 4 Gold medals.
Globally, Team China, USA, and South Korea finished as the top three winners in that order.
This year, Team India set a record with India’s highest ever cumulative score of 193 out of a maximum of 252.
A total of 630 students participated in the event of which 69 were female. Since 1989, India has won 23 Gold Medals of which 12 were won between 2019 and 2025 and 9 of them came in the last three IMOs (2023, 2024, 2025).
This is the third time in a row India has achieved a rank in the top 10 at the IMO (India finished 9th at IMO 2023 and 4th at IMO 2024), Prithwijit De, the National Coordinator, Mathematical Olympiad, and an associate professor at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBSCE), said.
India’s best rank achieved so far was the 4th position it bagged at the 65th IMO in 2024, he added.
The Indian team contingent included Kanav Talwar from Delhi (GOLD), Aarav Gupta from Delhi (GOLD), Adhitya Mangudy from
Maharashtra (GOLD), Abel George Mathew of Karnataka (SILVER), Aadish Jain of Delhi (SILVER), and Archit Manas of Delhi with Bronze .
The Indian team trained at the IMO Training Camp held at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) this year. Prof. Shanta Laishram (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Dr. Mainak Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru) and Atul Shatavart Nadig (BS Student, MIT, USA), and Dr. Rijul Saini accompanied the students.
In IMO, the questions are usually framed across Algebra, Combinatorics, Number Theory, Geometry and the host country seeks problem proposals from each participating country.
This year the six problems used in the IMO 2025 paper were from the USA, Vietnam, Colombia, Lithuania, Italy, Singapore.
The IMO is a global level Mathematics Competition for High School students. Those in academia note that traditionally, Olympiad winners from India pursue undergraduate degrees in Mathematics or other STEM subjects abroad and get into academia.
Published on July 19, 2025
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