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Juan Esteban Reyes

Colombian mathematics olympiad competitor; two-time IMO silver medalist (2020, 2021)
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Juan Esteban Reyes is a Colombian mathematical olympiad competitor. He represented Colombia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2019, 2020 and 2021, winning silver medals in 2020 (28 points, rank 86) and 2021 (22 points, rank 63) and was Colombia's top scorer in 2021. He also won bronze at the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad in 2020 and 2021. He was a student at Colegio Bilingue Jose Max Leon in Cajica, Colombia.

Juan Esteban Reyes is a Colombian mathematics olympiad competitor from Colegio Bilingue Jose Max Leon in Cota, Cundinamarca. He first entered competitive mathematics in primary school through Universidad Antonio Narino (UAN) olympiad qualifying tests, representing his school and the Cundinamarca/Boyaca/llanos region. He went on to represent Colombia at the IMO three times (2019, 2020, 2021), winning silver medals in 2020 and 2021 and serving as Colombia's top scorer in 2021.

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  • Colombia's top scorer at IMO 2021 (rank 63, 22 pts) and a silver medalist at IMO 2020 (rank 86, 28 pts), making him one of Colombia's strongest olympiad mathematicians in that cohort.Jul 2021
  • Also competed at IMO 2019 as a schoolboy, scoring only 4 points and no medal before his two silver-medal years, a trajectory that shows rapid improvement within Colombia's training pipeline.Jul 2019
  • Won bronze at the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad in both 2020 (15 pts) and 2021 (10 pts), confirming his strength beyond the IMO format.Mar 2021
  • First discovered through Universidad Antonio Narino olympiad qualifying tests in fifth grade, then selected for regional training camps; Colombia's system identifies future IMO talent from primary school.Jun 1, 2016
  • Represented Cundinamarca/Boyaca/eastern llanos region and won first place in a regional olympiad while in sixth grade at Colegio Jose Max Leon, which seeded his national trajectory.Jun 1, 2016
  • Colegio Bilingue Jose Max Leon publicly celebrated his 2020 IMO silver medal, describing him as an eleventh-grade 'Leonista', showing the school as his sustained support base.Sep 2020

Competition record

Colombia · IMO

2020 · Silver · Rank 862021 · Silver · Rank 63