Bucharest 2026

Results of the Twenty-third International Linguistics Olympiad

The jury awarded 84 medals (14 gold, 30 silver, and 40 bronze) out of 255 participants, as well as 44 honorable mentions, 6 team contest medals, the Trophy to the country with the highest average score, and 9 best solution prizes.


Individual Contest Medalists

Medal Score Name Team
Gold 86.0 Sridatta Bhamidipati Flag UK Cure–Force
Gold 81.5 Xin Yan Dong Flag Canada Moose
Gold 81.3 Yiling Jiang Flag Canada Moose
Gold 77.6 Edward Zeng Flag USA Blue
Gold 77.2 Sylvia Chen Flag USA Red
Gold 77.1 Yuki Azuma Flag Japan Ninja
Gold 77.0 Qi Jia Flag China QIAN
Gold 75.8 Darren Su Flag USA Red
Gold 75.0 Kenji Lee Flag Japan Samurai
Gold 72.8 Ariel Joshua Lau Flag Team Singapore
Gold 71.3 Zi Kun Chen Flag Canada Moose
Gold 70.8 Hiroto Yasui Flag Japan Ninja
Gold 70.8 Mikhail Iomdin Flag Germany Umlaut
Gold 70.0 Shrilakshmi Venkatraman Flag India Saffron
Silver 69.3 Kanoa Ziyang Teng Flag Taiwan Black Bear
Silver 69.2 Adavya Goyal Flag UK Horse–Hoarse
Silver 69.0 Sophie Zhang Flag Australia Warrang
Silver 68.7 Felipe Moraes Barros Flag Brazil Rosa
Silver 68.2 Antoni Bryłowski Flag Poland Chrząszcze
Silver 66.9 Alexandru-Ioan Pârv Flag România Dor
Silver 66.4 Luiza-Teodora Mihai Flag România Dor
Silver 66.1 Perry Dai Flag Canada Moose
Silver 66.0 Zicheng Dai Flag Japan Samurai
Silver 65.5 Yiming Qiao Flag Germany Umlaut
Silver 65.4 Elena Păvăloaia Flag România Doină
Silver 65.1 Theo Lomone Flag HKLO
Silver 64.8 Aleksander Żuk Flag Poland Chrząszcze
Silver 64.1 James Anderson Flag UK Cure–Force
Silver 64.1 Zhou Haoxuan Flag China QIAN
Silver 63.9 Vivian Zhang Flag Australia Warrang
Silver 63.6 Victoria Chen Flag UK Cure–Force
Silver 63.1 Ana-Teodora Grigorie Flag România Doină
Silver 62.3 Daniel Richardson Flag UK Horse–Hoarse
Silver 62.3 Radu-Gheorghe Tănăsescu Flag România Doină
Silver 62.1 Sion Lee Flag Korea Kkachi
Silver 61.9 Zachary Zi-En Wang Flag Australia Naarm
Silver 61.5 Elisaveta Khoretonenko Independent
Silver 61.5 Martin Bryja Flag Czechia Bylo nás pět
Silver 61.4 Fu Boran Flag China KUN
Silver 61.2 Ji Shu Ching Flag HKLO
Silver 60.7 Olga Besova Flag Israel
Silver 59.2 Zhou Yukai Flag China KUN
Silver 58.4 Bo-Ting Wu Flag Taiwan Black Bear
Silver 58.4 Mihaela Anghel Flag România Doină
Bronze 56.3 Leung Yui Ki Flag HKLO
Bronze 56.1 Radoslav Stefanov Flag Bulgaria Kirilitsa
Bronze 55.5 Shyngys Karassayev Flag Kazakhstan
Bronze 55.5 Levi O. Matias Flag Brazil Rosa
Bronze 55.4 Cheng Dylan Shiying Flag Team Singapore
Bronze 55.3 Elizaveta Dyatlova Independent
Bronze 54.5 Stella Heinzelmann Flag Germany Umlaut
Bronze 54.4 Jason Liu Flag USA Red
Bronze 54.3 Chihiro Higo Flag Japan Ninja
Bronze 54.1 Vladyslav Khalin Flag Ukraine
Bronze 53.9 Miia Saar Flag Estonia
Bronze 52.7 Sirui “Kris” Sheng Flag USA Blue
Bronze 52.7 Yeojun Park Flag Korea Kkachi
Bronze 52.7 Semyon Kuritsyn Independent
Bronze 52.6 Dominica Sagirova Independent
Bronze 52.3 Kirill Korostelev Flag Ireland
Bronze 52.1 Gergely Péter Sánta Flag Hungary Uborka
Bronze 51.9 Mihail Boshov Flag Bulgaria Kirilitsa
Bronze 51.8 Siyana Pavlova Flag Bulgaria Glagolitsa
Bronze 51.6 Shao-Yang Hsu Flag Taiwan Blue Magpie
Bronze 50.9 Aarav Anil Rao Flag India Green
Bronze 50.7 Yu-An Chang Flag Taiwan Blue Magpie
Bronze 50.2 Rehan Babu Flag USA Red
Bronze 50.0 Amber Li Flag Australia Warrang
Bronze 49.9 Anna Matiášková Flag Czechia Čtyřlístek
Bronze 49.8 Nishanth Shankar Lakshmanan Flag India Green
Bronze 49.6 Petar Velev Flag Bulgaria Kirilitsa
Bronze 49.4 Hao Xinyi Flag China KUN
Bronze 48.9 Sofiia Slyvchenko Flag Germany Eszett
Bronze 48.5 Advay Misra Flag India Saffron
Bronze 48.4 József Áron Pázmándi Flag Hungary Teniszütő
Bronze 48.1 Misaki Ninomiya Flag Japan Samurai
Bronze 47.0 Valerie Kopsová Flag Czechia Čtyřlístek
Bronze 47.0 Kalina Ivanova Flag Bulgaria Glagolitsa
Bronze 46.7 Martin Zhang Flag Sweden Mård
Bronze 46.6 Ang-Hsuan Yu Flag Taiwan Black Bear
Bronze 46.6 Andrei Dragu Flag România Dor
Bronze 46.6 Georgi Iliev Flag Bulgaria Kirilitsa
Bronze 45.9 Yoona Kim Flag Korea Horangi
Bronze 45.8 Gavriel Harvey Flag Switzerland Edelweis

Honorable Mentions

Award Score Name Team
HM 45.3 Omid Eftekhari Flag UK Horse–Hoarse
HM 45.3 Márton Kovács Flag Hungary Teniszütő
HM 45.2 Gergő Holló Flag Hungary Uborka
HM 44.5 Kong Yiu Wang Jayden Flag HKLO
HM 44.4 Katarzyna Drózda Flag Poland Świerszcze
HM 43.5 Yean Ban Flag Korea Horangi
HM 43.4 Helena Rull Flag Estonia
HM 43.4 Venelin Tsenkov Flag Bulgaria Glagolitsa
HM 42.8 Stanislav Alexander Flag Austria Heinzel Group
HM 42.5 Tobias Wendel Flag Germany Eszett
HM 42.4 Tudor-Brendan Neag Flag România Dor
HM 42.3 Zuzanna Buraczewska Flag Poland Chrząszcze
HM 41.9 Soham Amit Pednekar Flag India Saffron
HM 41.7 Aslan Azhibayev Flag Kazakhstan
HM 41.6 Kirill Turgumbayev Flag Kazakhstan
HM 41.2 Hania Niesiobędzka Flag Poland Świerszcze
HM 41.2 Jelizaveta Deņisova Flag Latvia
HM 41.0 Anna Horká Flag Czechia Bylo nás pět
HM 41.0 Luisa Ramscheid Güntert Flag Brazil Cravo
HM 40.5 Casper De Ranter Flag Sweden Älg
HM 40.2 Shang-En Tsai Flag Taiwan Black Bear
HM 40.2 Ho Janson Flag Malaysia
HM 39.5 Wai Ka Kwan Kevin Flag UK Horse–Hoarse
HM 39.5 Leong Le Yang, Kyan Flag Team Singapore
HM 39.3 Vincent Julius Von Planta Flag Switzerland Edelweis
HM 39.1 Sophia Cojocaru Flag Switzerland Steinbock
HM 39.1 Veronika Havlová Flag Czechia Čtyřlístek
HM 39.0 Jascha Kogan Flag Germany Umlaut
HM 38.9 Maksymilian Kałużny Flag Poland Chrząszcze
HM 38.8 Ela Biasizzo Flag Slovenia
HM 38.7 Wang Zichen Flag China KUN
HM 38.6 Narongrith Artnarongrith Flag Thailand
HM 38.1 Franciszek Łukasz Misiewicz Flag Poland Świerszcze
HM 37.6 Raphiphach Phanmee Flag Thailand
HM 37.2 Linnéa Tagel Flag Sweden Älg
HM 36.8 Junseong Song Flag Korea Horangi
HM 36.8 Ramazan Butantayev Flag Kazakhstan
HM 36.4 Zhou Shenghao Flag China QIAN
HM 36.3 Si I Kong Flag Macau 1
HM 36.2 César Lonel de Carvalho Flag Brazil Cravo
HM 35.9 Pragya Devkota Flag Team Nepal
HM 35.7 Bing-Chen Shih Flag Taiwan Blue Magpie
HM 35.6 Yu-Hsuan Chou Flag Taiwan Blue Magpie
HM 35.3 Matthew May Flag UK Cure–Force

Individual Contest Highest Average Score

Country Average Score
Flag Canada Anglophone 75.05

Team Contest Trophies

Medal Score Team
Gold 114.5 Flag Germany Umlaut
Silver 114.0 Flag HKLO
Silver 112.0 Flag Philippines Hinirang
Bronze 111.0 Flag Taiwan Black Bear
Bronze 108.0 Flag Czechia Bylo nás pět
Bronze 105.5 Flag China KUN

Team Contest Honorable Mentions

Award Score Team
HM 102.0 Flag China QIAN
HM 101.0 Flag Poland Chrząszcze
HM 101.0 Flag Ireland
HM 101.0 Flag Bulgaria Kirilitsa
HM 99.5 Flag Ukraine
HM 99.5 Flag Malaysia
HM 99.0 Flag Japan Samurai
HM 99.0 Flag Canada Moose
HM 98.5 Flag România Doină
HM 98.0 Flag Taiwan Blue Magpie
HM 97.5 Flag Team Singapore
HM 97.0 Flag Poland Świerszcze

Best Solutions

Problem Name Team
1 Veronika Havlová Flag Czechia Čtyřlístek
1 Zhou Haoxuan Flag China QIAN
2 Yiling Jiang Flag Canada Moose
3 Gergely Péter Sánta Flag Hungary Uborka
4 Fu Boran Flag China KUN
4 Martin Zhang Flag Sweden Mård
4 Shao-Yang Hsu Flag Taiwan Blue Magpie
4 Xin Yan Dong Flag Canada Moose
5 Radu-Gheorghe Tănăsescu Flag România Doină