Lankan IOI team wins one Silver and two Bronze medals

IOI is the Computer Programming Olympics that brings together more than 250 participants from over 80 countries for schoolchildren below 20 years. They face a two-day competition consisting of five hour long sessions each day. The Sri Lankan team to the International Olympiad in Informatics IOI 2006 held in Mexico returned to the country with one Silver and two Bronze medals.

This year, IOI was held in Yucatan, Mexico from August 13-20 and the Sri Lankan team consisted of Varuna Parinda Jayasiri (Royal College), Chetiya . B. Abeysinghe (Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala), G. Sandaruwan Gunathilake (Sivali College, Ratnapura) and Nuwan Jayanath Samarasekera (Ananda College, Colombo) assisted by Dr. Gihan Wickremanayake (UCSC) as Team Manager and Sifaan Zavahir as his Deputy.

Parinda Jayasiri won a Silver while Chetiya Abeysinghe and Sandaruwan won Bronze medals this year.

China was placed first with four Gold Medals. Poland second with three Gold and one Silver, Russia third with 3 Gold and one Bronze. Sri Lanka and India won one Silver and two Bronze and were placed above countries such as Sweden, UK, Thailand, Singapore and Mexico. There were 284 participants in all.

This brings the total number of medals won by Sri Lanka from 1992 when Sri Lanka first took part at an IOI to three gold, six Silver and sixteen Bronze medals.