You Zhou

You Zhou (周游) represented the People's Republic of China at the 44th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2003, Tokyo), winning a silver medal with 28 points (rank 38, 91.9%). He competed as a student of Wuhan WISCO No.3 Middle School in Hubei province and was subsequently admitted to Peking University by recommendation. China placed second overall in 2003 with five golds and one silver.

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• Identity caution: a University of Maryland materials-science professor also named You Zhou (PKU physics B.S. 2010, Harvard Ph.D. 2015) surfaces in search, but his CV lists a Chinese National Physics Olympiad gold and a 2010 PKU graduation inconsistent with the 2003 mathematics medalist's timeline — most likely a different person, so no Maryland details are attributed here.Sep 11, 2026
• Represented China at IMO 2003 (Tokyo) as a silver medalist, rank 38 with 28 points (7-7-0-7-7-0).Jul 2003
• Peking University's official IMO team-history page lists 周游 as the 2003 team member from Hubei's Wuhan WISCO No.3 Middle School, scoring 28 for silver — matching the IMO record under the anglicized name 'You Zhou'.Jul 2003
• Recommended for admission (保送) to Peking University after the IMO — the standard route for China's top olympiad medalists, indicating he continued into elite higher education in China, plausibly in mathematics or the sciences.Aug 2003
• His teammates included 2002/2003 double perfect-scorer 付云皓; China placed 2nd overall (211 pts) behind Bulgaria in 2003.Jul 2003
• His olympiad coach was Bian Hongping (边红平), whose students had accumulated 47 national math-competition prizes — WISCO No.3's medal pipeline is institutional, not incidental.Aug 1, 2003