Mikita Lesnikau

Mikita Lesnikau is a Belarusian competitive programmer who represented Belarus at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2005 (bronze, 118th) and 2006 (gold, 12th absolute with 419/600). He competed from at least 2003, when as a 15-year-old he reached the EU Contest for Young Scientists, and went on to team with Pavel Irzhauski and Uladzimir Kerus for the Belarusian State University squad that won bronze at the ACM-ICPC 2008 World Finals. He competed on TopCoder under the handle one_sk.

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• Scored a near-perfect 419/600 to place 12th absolute (96.10 percentile) and win gold at IOI 2006, after taking bronze (118th, 306/600) at IOI 2005 - the one-year leap suggests a late-blooming high-school contestant who peaked in his final eligible year.Aug 20, 2006
• At age 15 competed at the 15th European Union Contest for Young Scientists (Budapest, Sept 2003) for Belarus, listing Slutsk as his school town and email [contact omitted], which implies a birth year around 1987-1988.Sep 2003
• Handles: TopCoder one_sk (linked from his IOI stats page); clist.by aggregate coder 'lgsmitty' (19 accounts, Belarus) names Lesnikau on the BSU team, an alias hub worth checking for later accounts.
• Team on the ICPC 2008 World Finals ledger: Vladimir Kotov (coach), Mikita Lesnikau, Pavel Irzhauski, Uladzimir Kerus - the Belarusian State University SU1 squad.