Damien Joel Tchakote Kenne

Damien Joel Tchakoté Kenne is a Cameroonian mathematics student who became the first competitor to win a medal for Cameroon at the International Mathematical Olympiad, taking bronze in 2026. A graduate of Collège François-Xavier Vogt and lauréat of the 2026 baccalauréat with mention Très Bien, he built a rapid international trajectory: bronze and silver at the Francophone Mathematics Olympiad (OFM) and a silver at the Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) before earning an honourable mention at IMO 2025 and the historic bronze at IMO 2026.

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• Won bronze at IMO 2026 with 16 points (rank 314, 53.0%), Cameroon's first-ever medal at the competition; he had earned an honourable mention at IMO 2025 with 13 points (rank 410), a two-point jump per year that tracks his climb through the national olympiad pipeline.2026
• Lauréat (top scorer) of the 2026 baccalauréat with mention Très Bien and major of Collège François-Xavier Vogt, meaning he paired France's highest secondary-school distinction with an IMO medal in the same year, an unusual double for a Cameroonian student.Jul 21, 2026
• Medals opened a study-abroad scholarship to Canada and the prospect of university contests such as the Putnam, which suggests he is likely to continue competitive mathematics at university level abroad.2026
• Trained by PROMO-MATHS, whose intensive regimen included eight IMO-level mock tests in six months; the academy presents him as its flagship proof of concept and now recruits across Cameroon off his results.2026