Yet another international victory for Romania's brains. Romanian students got three silver medals and a bronze one at the recent International Chemistry Olympiad in Moscow. The four Romanians competed against 275 other participants from 71 other countries.

Silver medals went to Maria Andreea Filip from the International Informatics Highschool in Bucharest, who is at her second silver medal at the Olympiad, with a similar win last year, Adrian Murgoci from the Mihai Viteazul High School in Bucharest and Dumitru Călugăru from the Tudor Vladimirescu High School in Targu Jiu. The bronze went to Mihai Grigore Prună from the Vasile Lucaciu high school in Baia Mare.

The first International Chemistry Olympiad took place in Prague in 1968, when each of the three participating countries sent a team of six pupils, and four theoretical tasks were to be solved. In 1974, Romania invited Sweden and Yugoslavia to the Olympiad in Bucharest and Germany and Austria sent observers. Last year, the international competition was held in the US, in Washington DC. The last time Romania hosted the competition was in 1983, in the Western city of Timisoara.

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(photo source: Education Ministry)