International Olympiad 2026

From the 9-th to the 16-th of August, the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2026 was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The competition brought together 375 participants from 92 countries.

The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the most prestigious informatics competition for high school students and takes place annually. It was first held in Bulgaria in 1989. Ukraine has been participating in the Olympiad since 1992. The competition consists of two days of programming and solving algorithmic problems. Teams from each country, formed through national competitions, participate, but the contest itself is conducted on an individual basis.

The Ukrainian team won one gold medal, two silver medals and one honorable mention. The team members were:

• 🥇 Vladyslav Khalin, an 11th-grade student at Kharkiv Lyceum No. 118 of the Kharkiv City Council, won a gold medal (coach: Valentyn Melnyk);
• 🥈 Illia Shevchenko, a graduate of Kharkiv Lyceum "Boyko Author's School", won a silver medal (coaches: Valentyn Melnyk, Oleksandr Mitsa, Andrii Popyk, Mykola Arzubov);
• 🥈 Daria Perekopska, a graduate of the Dnipro Scientific Lyceum of Information Technologies, won a silver medal (coach: Valentyn Melnyk);
• 📜 Daria Lobas, a 12th-grade student at Secondary School No. III named after Adam Mickiewicz in Wrocław, received an honorable mention.

The team leaders were Anton Tsypko, Valentyn Melnyk and Yana Cheishvili. The trip was organised by the Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Federation of Olympiad Programming. It was funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Citadel.