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 Country
Gold 86.0 Sridatta Bhamidipati Flag United Kingdom
Gold 81.5 Xin Yan Dong Flag Canada Anglophone
Gold 81.3 Yiling Jiang Flag Canada Anglophone
Gold 77.6 Edward Zeng Flag United States of America
Gold 77.2 Sylvia Chen Flag United States of America
Gold 77.1 Yuki Azuma Flag Japan
Gold 77.0 Qi Jia Flag China
Gold 75.8 Darren Su Flag United States of America
Gold 75.0 Kenji Lee Flag Japan
Gold 72.8 Ariel Joshua Lau Flag Singapore
Gold 71.3 Zi Kun Chen Flag Canada Anglophone
Gold 70.8 Hiroto Yasui Flag Japan
Gold 70.8 Mikhail Iomdin Flag Germany
Gold 70.0 Shrilakshmi Venkatraman Flag India
Silver 69.3 Kanoa Ziyang Teng Flag Taiwan
Silver 69.2 Adavya Goyal Flag United Kingdom
Silver 69.0 Sophie Zhang Flag Australia
Silver 68.7 Felipe Araújo Moraes Barros Flag Brazil
Silver 68.2 Antoni Bryłowski Flag Poland
Silver 66.9 Alexandru-Ioan Pârv Flag Romania
Silver 66.4 Luiza-Teodora Mihai Flag Romania
Silver 66.1 Perry Dai Flag Canada Anglophone
Silver 66.0 Zicheng Dai Flag Japan
Silver 65.5 Yiming Qiao Flag Germany
Silver 65.4 Elena Păvăloaia Flag Romania
Silver 65.1 Theo Lomone Flag Hong Kong, China
Silver 64.8 Aleksander Żuk Flag Poland
Silver 64.1 James Anderson Flag United Kingdom
Silver 64.1 Zhou Haoxuan Flag China
Silver 63.9 Vivian Zhang Flag Australia
Silver 63.6 Victoria Chen Flag United Kingdom
Silver 63.1 Ana-Teodora Grigorie Flag Romania
Silver 62.3 Daniel Richardson Flag United Kingdom
Silver 62.3 Radu-Gheorghe Tănăsescu Flag Romania
Silver 62.1 Sion Lee Flag Republic of Korea
Silver 61.9 Zachary Zi-En Wang Flag Australia
Silver 61.5 Elisaveta Khoretonenko Independent
Silver 61.5 Martin Bryja Flag Czechia
Silver 61.4 Fu Boran Flag China
Silver 61.2 Ji Shu Ching Flag Hong Kong, China
Silver 60.7 Olga Besova Flag Israel
Silver 59.2 Zhou Yukai Flag China
Silver 58.4 Bo-Ting Wu Flag Taiwan
Silver 58.4 Mihaela Anghel Flag Romania
Bronze 56.3 Leung Yui Ki Flag Hong Kong, China
Bronze 56.1 Radoslav Stefanov Flag Bulgaria
Bronze 55.5 Shyngys Karassayev Flag Kazakhstan
Bronze 55.5 Levi O. Matias Flag Brazil
Bronze 55.4 Cheng Dylan Shiying Flag Singapore
Bronze 55.3 Elizaveta Dyatlova Independent
Bronze 54.5 Stella Heinzelmann Flag Germany
Bronze 54.4 Jason Liu Flag United States of America
Bronze 54.3 Chihiro Higo Flag Japan
Bronze 54.1 Vladyslav Khalin Flag Ukraine
Bronze 53.9 Miia Saar Flag Estonia
Bronze 52.7 Sirui “Kris” Sheng Flag United States of America
Bronze 52.7 Yeojun Park Flag Republic of Korea
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
Bronze 51.9 Mihail Boshov Flag Bulgaria
Bronze 51.8 Siyana Pavlova Flag Bulgaria
Bronze 51.6 Shao-Yang Hsu Flag Taiwan
Bronze 50.9 Aarav Anil Rao Flag India
Bronze 50.7 Yu-An Chang Flag Taiwan
Bronze 50.2 Rehan Babu Flag United States of America
Bronze 50.0 Amber Li Flag Australia
Bronze 49.9 Anna Matiášková Flag Czechia
Bronze 49.8 Nishanth Shankar Lakshmanan Flag India
Bronze 49.6 Petar Velev Flag Bulgaria
Bronze 49.4 Hao Xinyi Flag China
Bronze 48.9 Sofiia Slyvchenko Flag Germany
Bronze 48.5 Advay Misra Flag India
Bronze 48.4 József Áron Pázmándi Flag Hungary
Bronze 48.1 Misaki Ninomiya Flag Japan
Bronze 47.0 Valerie Kopsová Flag Czechia
Bronze 47.0 Kalina Ivanova Flag Bulgaria
Bronze 46.7 Martin Zhang Flag Sweden
Bronze 46.6 Ang-Hsuan Yu Flag Taiwan
Bronze 46.6 Andrei Dragu Flag Romania
Bronze 46.6 Georgi Iliev Flag Bulgaria
Bronze 45.9 Yoona Kim Flag Republic of Korea
Bronze 45.8 Gavriel Soffran Harvey Flag Switzerland

Honorable Mentions

Award Score Name Country
HM 45.3 Omid Eftekhari Flag United Kingdom
HM 45.3 Márton Kovács Flag Hungary
HM 45.2 Gergő Holló Flag Hungary
HM 44.5 Kong Yiu Wang Jayden Flag Hong Kong, China
HM 44.4 Katarzyna Drózda Flag Poland
HM 43.5 Yean Ban Flag Republic of Korea
HM 43.4 Helena Rull Flag Estonia
HM 43.4 Venelin Tsenkov Flag Bulgaria
HM 42.8 Stanislav Alexander Flag Austria
HM 42.5 Tobias Wendel Flag Germany
HM 42.4 Tudor-Brendan Neag Flag Romania
HM 42.3 Zuzanna Buraczewska Flag Poland
HM 41.9 Soham Amit Pednekar Flag India
HM 41.7 Aslan Azhibayev Flag Kazakhstan
HM 41.6 Kirill Turgumbayev Flag Kazakhstan
HM 41.2 Hania Niesiobędzka Flag Poland
HM 41.2 Jelizaveta Deņisova Flag Latvia
HM 41.0 Anna Horká Flag Czechia
HM 41.0 Luisa Ramscheid Güntert Flag Brazil
HM 40.5 Casper De Ranter Flag Sweden
HM 40.2 Shang-En Tsai Flag Taiwan
HM 40.2 Ho Janson Flag Malaysia
HM 39.5 Wai Ka Kwan Kevin Flag United Kingdom
HM 39.5 Leong Le Yang, Kyan Flag Singapore
HM 39.3 Vincent Julius Von Planta Flag Switzerland
HM 39.1 Sophia Cojocaru Flag Switzerland
HM 39.1 Veronika Havlová Flag Czechia
HM 39.0 Jascha Kogan Flag Germany
HM 38.9 Maksymilian Kałużny Flag Poland
HM 38.8 Ela Biasizzo Flag Slovenia
HM 38.7 Wang Zichen Flag China
HM 38.6 Narongrith Artnarongrith Flag Thailand
HM 38.1 Franciszek Łukasz Misiewicz Flag Poland
HM 37.6 Raphiphach Phanmee Flag Thailand
HM 37.2 Linnéa Tagel Flag Sweden
HM 36.8 Junseong Song Flag Republic of Korea
HM 36.8 Ramazan Butantayev Flag Kazakhstan
HM 36.4 Zhou Shenghao Flag China
HM 36.3 Si I Kong Flag Macau
HM 36.2 César Augusto Lonel De Carvalho Flag Brazil
HM 35.9 Pragyan Devkota Flag Nepal
HM 35.7 Bing-Chen Shih Flag Taiwan
HM 35.6 Yu-Hsuan Chou Flag Taiwan
HM 35.3 Matthew May Flag United Kingdom

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 Country
1 Veronika Havlová Flag Czechia
1 Zhou Haoxuan Flag China
2 Yiling Jiang Flag Canada Anglophone
3 Gergely Péter Sánta Flag Hungary
4 Fu Boran Flag China
4 Martin Zhang Flag Sweden
4 Shao-Yang Hsu Flag Taiwan
4 Xin Yan Dong Flag Canada Anglophone
5 Radu-Gheorghe Tănăsescu Flag Romania