Hanoi (VNA) – All five students of the Vietnamese team participating in the Internationaldistributed Physics Olympiad (IdPhO) 2020 have won medals, with foursilver and one bronze.
The silver medalists are TrangDao Cong Minh, Vu Ngo Hoang Duong, and Le Minh Hoang from the High School for Gifted Students under VietnamNational University - Hanoi, and Nguyen Khac Hai Long, a student at theHanoi National University of Education’s High School for Gifted Students.
Meanwhile, the bronze medal went to Nguyen Le Duc Hoang from the Hanoi-AmsterdamHigh School.
The IdPhO 2020 was organised virtually fromDecember 7-15 in accordance with an initiative by the MoscowInstitute of Physics and Technology as an alternative to the annual International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), which was canceledbecause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although they missed the 51st IPhO, Vietnamese students had two opportunitiesto compete at international physics competitions, including the 2020 EuropeanPhysics Olympiad (EuPhO) and the IdPhO 2020.
Four of the five Vietnamese students participating in this year’s EuPhO won onegold, one silver, and two bronze medals.
At the IPhO last year, the Vietnameseteam brought home three gold medals and two silvers./.