Jo Apr 11, 2022

The contests ended on March 28, 2022.

The first contest was held on March 11-14. About 19 900 people from tens of countries and regions including our country, China and India took part. 178 participants competed in Category 1, 2 105 in Category 2, and 6 227 in Category 3 and 11 415 in Category 4. Category 1 set forth 5 problems, none of which were challenge problems.

A total of 48 contestants won the first place in Category 1 ― 18 from the DPRK, 5 from China, 15 from India, 1 from Peru, 1 from Singapore, 2 from Bangladesh, 1 from Portugal, 1 from the UK, 1 from the US and 3 from Japan.

9 out of the 18 winners of our country are students at Kim Chaek University of Technology.

37.5% of the world winners are from the DPRK, and 18.75% are from KUT.

KUT students amount to half the 18 DPRK winners.

In the meantime, a student from KUT took the first place in Category 2.

The second contest went on from 25 to 28.

About 16 900 people from tens of countries and regions including our country, China and India took part. 93, 666, 4 581 and 11 593 contestants belonged to Category 1, Category 2, Category 3 and Category 4 respectively.

4 non-challenge problems were presented in Category 1.

Category 1 witnessed a total of 21 winners ― 15 from our country, 3 from China, 1 from Bangladesh and 2 from Japan.

All of the 5 students from Kim Chaek University of Technology took the first place in Category 1.

Our country has as many winners as 71.428% of a total of 21, and 23.809% are KUT students. KUT students account for 33.3% of DPRK winners.