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Bulgaria’s competitors win 15 medals at International Tournament of Informatics in Shumen

Photo: Radio Shumen, BNR

The competitors from Bulgaria won 15 medals at the 14th John Atanasoff International Tournament of Informatics in Shumen, which took place under the patronage of President Rumen Radev and with the media support of the Bulgarian news agency BTA.

Around 400 competitors from 17 countries took part in this year’s edition of the event in two age groups – junior and senior. The teams of Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and the UK took part in the tournament in person, while the teams of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Egypt, Israel, Cuba, Pakistan, Peru, Slovenia, Serbia and Ukraine – online. Participants from Russia also took part on a non-competitive basis.

Five of the medals won by the Bulgarian team are gold, four of them in the senior group, and one – in the junior.

“It was a celebration of world school informatics,” said Bisserka Yovcheva, chairperson of the tournament’s organizing committee. 



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