Ukrainian teenager tops 248 girls from 67 countries to win first-ever gold at European informatics Olympiad

Darya Perekopska, an 11th-grade student from Dnipro, has become the first Ukrainian to win the European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI), the Federation of Olympiad Programming reports. She placed first among 248 participants from 67 countries at the competition held May 12–18 in Cesenatico, Italy.

Three other Ukrainian students also medalled. Mariia Rapina, a 10th-grader from Kharkiv Academic Lyceum No. 45, and Anastasiia Yaremko, an 11th-grader from Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, each received silver. Tetiana Zadniprovska, a 10th-grader from Lyceum No. 1 named after Volodymyr Krasytskyi in Khmelnytskyi, took bronze. Ukraine finished fourth in the European team rankings.

The competition

EGOI was established with a specific goal, according to the federation: "The aim of this olympiad is to encourage girls to participate in informatics olympiads, since there are incredibly few of them at the International Olympiad in Informatics."

The event draws teams well beyond the continent's borders. "Although the olympiad is European, quite a few countries outside Europe wish to send teams to the in-person event," the federation noted.

The medalists

Perekopska studies at the Dnipro Scientific Lyceum of Information Technologies. Her gold and overall top ranking make her the outright winner of the olympiad — the first Ukrainian to hold that distinction.

Rapina and Yaremko's silvers, alongside Zadniprovska's bronze, gave Ukraine a four-medal haul and a fourth-place finish in the European team standings.