site.btaBulgarian High-School Students Win Four Medals at International Biology Olympiad

Bulgarian high-school students have won four medals at the world’s most prestigious biology competition of the year. At the International Biology Olympiad, held from July 20 to 27 in Quezon City, Philippines, the Bulgarian team earned two silver and two bronze medals, the Bulgarian Association of the Olympic Teams in Natural Sciences reported on Sunday.

All four medal winners from Bulgaria are from the National School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Sofia. Silver medals were awarded to Martin Zamfirov (Year 12) and Boyan Tsenov (Year 11), and bronze medals went to Dimitar Oronov (Year 11) and Stoyan Dobrev (Year 12). The team was led by Prof. Albena Yordanova (Faculty of Medicine, Sofia University), Senior Assistant Professor Radoslav Alexandrov (Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), and PhD student Teodor Trifonov (Institute of Biodiversity, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

The International Biology Olympiad is the world’s premier biology competition for school students. Bulgaria is one of the six founding countries and took part in the very first edition of the Olympiad in 1990 in the then Czechoslovakia.

To date, Bulgaria has won a total of 85 medals (10 gold, 19 silver, and 56 bronze) at the International Biology Olympiad.