Vladislav Zhiganov

Vladislav Zhiganov is a Russian competitive programmer and school student. He represented Russia at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), winning a gold medal in 2025 (25th place, 447.86/600) and a gold medal in 2026 at Tashkent, where he finished 2nd overall among 375 contestants with 482.75/600. He is a Grandmaster on Codeforces (handle zhiganov_v, rating 2433) and trains with Russia's national IOI squad, which is prepared at ITMO University.

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• Finished 2nd overall at IOI 2026 in Tashkent with 482.75/600, behind only China's Qiwen Xu (498.27) — the top Russian result by a wide margin.Aug 13, 2026
• Two-time IOI gold medalist (2025 25th, 2026 2nd) while still a school student, having placed outside the top 20 in 2025 and jumping to silver-medal contention a year later — a steep trajectory, not a plateau.Aug 13, 2026
• Competes under Codeforces handle zhiganov_v (Grandmaster, rating 2433, ~904 problems solved), which is the anchor linking the IOI profile to his competitive record.Sep 11, 2026
• Vladimir Putin publicly congratulated Zhiganov by name among Russia's four-medal IOI 2026 team, making him the first-named team member in the Kremlin statement.Aug 16, 2026
• Russia's IOI team is prepared at ITMO University (the ITMO-trained squad won four medals at IOI 2026), which places Zhiganov in ITMO's national competitive-programming training pipeline rather than an ordinary school program.Aug 16, 2026
• No public LinkedIn, GitHub, X/Twitter, or personal site is linked from his IOI or CPHOF profiles; the only external profiles listed are Codeforces and IOI, so his public footprint is confined to competitive-programming platforms.Sep 11, 2026
• Codeforces API lists his city as Yekaterinburg while the IOI/press reports describe him as a Moscow student — the profile's location data is inconsistent across sources, so treat Moscow as the current attribution and Yekaterinburg as a possible earlier/home location.Sep 11, 2026