Notable Participants
A number of IMO participants have gone on to become notable mathematicians. The following IMO participants have received a Fields Medal, a Wolf Prize or a Clay Research Award, awards which recognise groundbreaking research in mathematics; a European Mathematical Society Prize, an award which recognizes young researchers; or one of the American Mathematical Society's awards (a Blumenthal Award in Pure Mathematics, Bôcher Memorial Prize in Analysis, Cole Prize in Algebra, Cole Prize in Number Theory or Veblen Prize in Geometry and Topology) recognizing research in specific mathematical fields.
G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect paper.
| Name | Team | IMO | Fields Medal | Wolf Prize | EMS Prize | AMS research prizes | Clay Award |
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| Grigory Margulis | Soviet Union |
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| George Lusztig | Romania |
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| Henryk Iwaniec | Poland |
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| László Lovász | Hungary |
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| Andrei Suslin | Soviet Union |
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| Vladimir Drinfeld | Soviet Union |
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| Alexander Merkurjev | Soviet Union |
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| Pierre-Louis Lions | France |
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| János Kollár | Hungary |
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| Jean-Christophe Yoccoz | France |
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| Paul Vojta | United States |
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| Alexander Goncharov | Soviet Union |
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| Richard Borcherds | United Kingdom |
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| Timothy Gowers | United Kingdom |
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| Peter Kronheimer | United Kingdom |
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| Gábor Tardos | Hungary |
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| Grigori Perelman | Soviet Union |
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| Alexis Bonnet | France |
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| Laurent Lafforgue | France |
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| Daniel Tătaru | Romania |
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| Zoltán Szabó | Hungary |
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| Ricardo Pérez-Marco | Spain |
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| Dominic Joyce | United Kingdom |
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| Stanislav Smirnov | Soviet Union |
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| Terence Tao | Australia |
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| Elon Lindenstrauss | Israel |
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| Ngô Bảo Châu | Vietnam |
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| Emmanuel Grenier | France |
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| Vincent Lafforgue | France |
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| Artur Ávila | Brazil |
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| Emmanuel Breuillard | France |
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| Ben J. Green | United Kingdom |
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| Maryam Mirzakhani | Iran |
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| Bo'az Klartag | Israel |
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| Ciprian Manolescu | Romania |
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| Adrian Ioana | Romania |
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IMO medalists have also gone on to become notable computer scientists. The following IMO medalists have received a Nevanlinna Prize, a Knuth Prize, or a Gödel Prize; these awards recognise research in theoretical computer science. G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect paper.
| Name | Team | IMO | Nevanlinna Prize | Knuth Prize | Gödel Prize |
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| László Lovász | Hungary |
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| László Babai | Hungary |
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| Johan Håstad | Sweden |
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| Peter Shor | United States |
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| Alexander Razborov | Soviet Union |
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