Dan Cernatinschi

Dan Cernatinschi represented the Republic of Moldova at the International Mathematical Olympiad four consecutive years (2020-2023). He won honorable mentions in 2020 (score 8) and 2021 (score 9), a silver medal in 2022 (score 29) and a bronze medal in 2023 (score 19). A student of the private Liceul Teoretic Orizont in Chisinau, he was an 11th-grader when he took silver in 2022 and a 12th-grader in 2023.

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• IMO results over four consecutive years: 2020 score 8 (honorable mention), 2021 score 9 (HM), 2022 score 29 (Silver), 2023 score 19 (Bronze) - a clear climb from two honorable mentions to silver then bronze.
• IMO Hall of Fame lists him with 1 silver, 1 bronze and 2 honorable mentions across 4 participations - one of only a handful of Moldovan students to compete at the IMO four times.
• Won his 2022 silver as an 11th-grade student and the 2023 bronze as a 12th-grader, while enrolled at the private Liceul Teoretic Orizont in Chisinau (Durlesti branch), placing him among Moldova's top math talents.
• Chose mathematics as his defining passion and discussed the behind-the-scenes of international olympiads and travels to Turkey and Japan in a January 2024 diez.md interview, suggesting continued engagement with the olympiad community after graduation.
• Co-medalists on the 2023 Moldova IMO team were Dragos Port and Alin Popescu (bronze) plus Constantin Babuc, Marius Cerlat and Robert Barbuta (HM) - all Orizont students, team led by Valeriu Gutu (Moldova State University) and Valeriu Baltag.
• Public Facebook profile at facebook.com/cernatinschi.danu, active 2024-2025 - likely his primary social surface, though not openly indexable beyond thumbnails.