A paper with nothing dropped
The EGMO scoreboard for 2023 lists Yazgan under Turkey with the entry that every olympiad competitor recognises: 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7. Six problems, each marked out of seven, all of them fully solved, for a total of 42 and a shared rank of first.
Perfect papers are not unique at this level, but they are rare enough to be countable. Fourteen contestants reached 42 that year, drawn from Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Israel, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States. Yazgan was one of two Turkish names among them, alongside Melek Gungor.
The second gold, in Georgia
The following year the olympiad moved to Tskaltubo in Georgia. Yazgan returned and scored 36 out of 42, taking gold a second time at the shared rank of sixth.
Her 2024 placing was a three-way tie on 36 points with Netta Ilani of Israel and Angela Liu of the United States. The scoreboard does not separate contestants who finish level, so all three stand at sixth on the published table.
How the competition is marked
EGMO's results pages give a full breakdown rather than a summary. Each contestant appears with her country code, her marks on problems one to six, her total, her rank and her medal, which is why a perfect paper is visible as six sevens rather than as a single number.
The structure also explains the clusters. With only a handful of possible totals near the top, joint ranks are common, and in 2023 the top of the table was shared by fourteen contestants rather than topped by one. A competition that refuses to break its own ties is unusual in sport and ordinary in mathematics, where the mark is the answer.
What is documented - and what is not
The record here comes from two official scoreboards, with a third consulted for context. They establish the scores, the ranks, the medals and the countries. They establish nothing else.
No birth year, age, school, home city, photograph or quotation appears in the sources used here, and no Wikipedia article on Yazgan was found. Her name is also written without Turkish diacritics in some listings, which is a transliteration difference rather than a second competitor. Everything absent from the scoreboards is absent from this page, which is the only honest way to write about a school-age competitor.
Why a perfect score still has to be repeated
A maximum score settles one question completely: on that pair of mornings, against those six problems, nothing was missed. It says less about the years on either side, which is why the 2024 result matters to the record.
Returning meant a second national selection and a different set of problems in a different country, and Yazgan finished in the top six again. Two golds at consecutive editions, one of them perfect, is a fuller account of a competitor than any single number on a scoreboard.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| İrem Gülce Yazgan | Turkey | A perfect 42/42 at EGMO 2023 and gold again in 2024 | — |
| Colin Shanmo Tang | United States | A perfect 42/42 at the International Mathematical Olympiad, 2019 | — |
| Youngjun Cho | South Korea | A perfect 42/42 at the International Mathematical Olympiad, 2019 | — |
| Galiia Sharafetdinova | Russia | A perfect 42/42 at the International Mathematical Olympiad, 2022 | — |
| Ihor Pylaiev | Ukraine | A perfect 42/42 at the International Mathematical Olympiad, 2022 | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- A perfect 42/42, joint first place and gold at EGMO 2023 in Portoroz (EGMO official scoreboard)
- Gold medal and 36 points, joint sixth, at EGMO 2024 in Tskaltubo (EGMO official scoreboard)
- One of fourteen contestants who scored 42 in 2023, with teammate Melek Gungor
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No published age, birth year, school or home city
- No Wikipedia article, interview or press profile found
- No documented result after the 2024 olympiad
Questions people ask about İrem Gülce Yazgan
What is Irem Gulce Yazgan known for?
Scoring a perfect 42 out of 42 at the 2023 European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad for Turkey, and winning gold again in 2024.
What is a perfect EGMO score?
42 points: six problems, each marked out of seven. The 2023 scoreboard shows Yazgan on 7 for every problem.
Was she the only contestant with a perfect score?
No. Fourteen contestants scored 42 in 2023, including her Turkish teammate Melek Gungor, and all of them shared first place.
How old is Irem Gulce Yazgan?
No source used here gives an age or birth year. EGMO scoreboards list names, countries and scores only.
What did she score in 2024?
36 out of 42, a gold medal, at the shared rank of sixth alongside Netta Ilani of Israel and Angela Liu of the United States.
Is Irem Gulce Yazgan on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article on her was found. The record rests on the olympiad's own scoreboards.
Why is her name spelled differently in some places?
Turkish diacritics are dropped in some listings. It is the same competitor.
Where is Irem Gulce Yazgan now?
Nothing after the 2024 olympiad appears in the sources used here.
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Sources
- EGMO 2023 scoreboard (Portoroz, Slovenia) — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2023-04
- EGMO 2024 scoreboard (Tskaltubo, Georgia) — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2024-04
- EGMO 2025 scoreboard (Prishtina, Kosovo) — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2025-04
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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