Rui Yao

Rui Yao (姚睿) represented the People's Republic of China at the 59th International Mathematical Olympiad in 2018, winning a silver medal with 30 points. He was a top competition-math student at Huazhong Normal University No.1 Middle School in Wuhan, Hubei, the only Hubei student to reach the final six from the national training squad.

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• Scored 30 points (7/7/0/7/7/2) at IMO 2018 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, taking silver at rank 49; China placed 3rd overall with 199 points behind USA (212) and Russia (201).Jul 18, 2018
• Selected for China's team at the 59th IMO on 2018-03-28, after a second-round national training selection in Shanghai; he was placed in the winning six from 15 finalists.Mar 30, 2018
• As a Grade-12 student in class 23 of Hubei's Huazhong Normal University No.1 Middle School, he was the only Hubei student to advance from the 60-person national training squad to the final 15, a strong signal of standing within the strongest provincial cohort.Jan 11, 2018
• As one of the 60 national-team training squad members, he automatically qualified for recommendation (保送) to Tsinghua or Peking University, a path that defines where China's top olympiad students land.Jan 11, 2018
• Coached by Li Jianguo (李建国) with Chen Wenjuan (陈文娟) as homeroom teacher, placing him in the school's elite competition-math pipeline.Mar 30, 2018