Antonio Laso González

Antonio Laso Gonzalez is a Spanish student and competitive mathematician from the Arganzuela district of Madrid who has represented Spain at the International Mathematical Olympiad three times (2024, 2025, 2026). He won silver at IMO 2025 (rank 119, 29 points) and bronze at IMO 2026 in Shanghai (rank 314, 16 points), and won the LXI Olimpiada Matematica Espanola in 2025 as a 1o de Bachillerato student at IES Cervantes. Diagnosed with high intellectual ability, he taught himself mathematics from age 13 and says he does not use social media or ChatGPT and dislikes memorization.

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• Silver medal at IMO 2025 (Sunshine Coast, Australia): rank 119, 29 points (P1=7,P2=7,P3=1,P4=7,P5=7,P6=0); Spain's team led by Maria Gaspar.Jul 2025
• Won the LXI Olimpiada Matematica Espanola (2025), taking the first of Spain's six gold medals, at age 16 while in 1o de Bachillerato at IES Cervantes (Madrid).May 9, 2025
• Bronze medal at IMO 2026 (Shanghai): rank 314, 16 points (P1=7,P2=7,P3=0,P4=2,P5=0,P6=0).Jul 2026
• Told El Mundo he does not use social media or ChatGPT and dislikes memorization, calling Selectividad unfair - a problem-solver over rote preparation.May 9, 2025
• Diagnosed with high intellectual ability (altas capacidades); taught himself mathematics from age 13 after being bored through primary school.May 9, 2025
• In 2025 El Mundo ran him as a cover-style profile ('El mejor estudiante de Matematicas de Espana') days after his OME win, showing national-press recognition well beyond the olympiad circuit.May 2025
• Three-time IMO participant for Spain (2024, 2025, 2026) per moresults.org contestant record.Jul 2026
• Lives in Madrid's Arganzuela district; his institute IES Cervantes is a historic Madrid public school where Antonio Machado and Maria Zambrano once taught.May 9, 2025
• Mentored at IES Cervantes by mathematician Daniel Ubeda; headteacher Encarnacion Mainez (32 years teaching) called him 'a genius ... probably no one like him for a long time'.May 9, 2025
• Represented Spain at IMO 2024 in Bath (UK), scoring 8 points, before his medal runs.Jul 19, 2024
• His school IES Cervantes celebrated his IMO 2025 silver on X ('muy orgullosos'), and it had earlier celebrated his 2024 OME gold - the school treats him as a flagship maths student.Jul 2025