A perfect paper
The official EGMO 2023 scoreboard lists Polina Henyk of Ukraine on 42 points from a possible 42, with a gold medal. The paper sets six problems, each marked out of seven, so the total means six complete solutions with nothing deducted anywhere.
Olympiad marking makes that harder than it sounds. Solutions are assessed by coordination, in which examiners and team leaders go through every written argument together and marks are conceded only where the reasoning genuinely closes. A perfect score means six proofs read by people looking for holes, and no hole found.
Ukraine on the table
EGMO teams are selected nationally, four contestants per country, and the 2023 table lists roughly fifty countries and a field of around two hundred. Ukraine's line on that table includes a contestant who dropped no marks at all.
The scoreboard says nothing about how any team prepared, travelled or trained; it is a results document and nothing more. What it establishes is unambiguous: a Ukrainian contestant sat the 2023 paper in Slovenia and finished it completely.
Fourteen at the ceiling
Henyk's perfect score was one of fourteen in 2023. The group included all four members of the Chinese team — Shuwen Hu, Lai Yuan, Sihan Su and Yiran Qiu — as well as Fidan Garayeva of Azerbaijan, Maria Drencheva of Bulgaria, Nogah Friedman of Israel, Isabella Zhu and Vivian Loh of the United States, Xiangyue Nan of Australia and two Turkish contestants, Melek Güngör and İrem Gülce Yazgan.
Fourteen flawless papers is a crowded summit by olympiad standards, and it leaves the top of the table tied. No individual ranking separates that group, because the scoring has nothing left to separate them with.
How much a single paper matters
The following year shows the swing. At EGMO 2024 in Tskaltubo, Georgia, no contestant scored above 41: the highest total in the world was Hannah Fox's, one mark short of perfect, with two contestants tied on 38 behind her.
Two consecutive years of the same competition therefore produced fourteen perfect papers and then none. The difficulty of the six problems accounts for most of that, which is why a perfect score should be read as a statement about a specific examination as well as about the contestant who cleared it.
What is documented — and what is not
The firm facts are the scoreboard's: 42 points out of 42 at EGMO 2023, a gold medal, competing for Ukraine, at an olympiad held in Portorož, Slovenia. The comparison with 2024 comes from the same organisation's scoreboard for the following year.
Beyond that, the record is empty. No age, date of birth, school, city or photograph appears in the source. There is no interview, no team statement and no account of results before or after 2023, and nothing in the sources gathered here describes the circumstances in which she prepared or travelled.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polina Henyk | Ukraine | Perfect 42/42 at EGMO 2023 | — |
| Junghun Ju | South Korea | A perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad | — |
| Amber Li | Australia | Three consecutive EGMO gold medals | — |
| Aida Mitroi | Romania | Three consecutive EGMO gold medals | — |
| Alisa Volkova | Russia | She solved five of the six problems outright and finished twelfth in the w | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Perfect score of 42 out of 42 at EGMO 2023 (official scoreboard)
- Competed for Ukraine; awarded a gold medal
- Fourteen perfect scores in 2023; none above 41 the following year
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No date of birth, age, school or home town in the source
- No interview, photograph or statement from the Ukrainian team
- No description of how the team prepared or travelled, and no record after 2023
Questions people ask about Polina Henyk
What did Polina Henyk achieve?
A perfect score of 42 out of 42 at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad 2023 in Portorož, Slovenia, with a gold medal, for Ukraine.
How old is Polina Henyk?
No source in this record gives her age or date of birth. The scoreboard publishes names, countries and scores only.
How many problems did she solve?
All six, each marked out of seven, with no marks deducted anywhere on the paper.
Was she the only perfect score?
No. Fourteen contestants scored 42 in 2023, including the entire Chinese team.
Is Polina Henyk on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article was found for her. The official EGMO scoreboard is the primary published record.
How rare is a perfect score at EGMO?
It varies sharply by year. There were fourteen in 2023 and none in 2024, when the highest score in the world was 41.
Where is Polina Henyk now?
No source in this record says. The published trail is the 2023 scoreboard entry.
Does the source describe her school or city?
No. The scoreboard carries names, flags and scores, and no biographical information of any kind.
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Sources
- EGMO 2023 scoreboard — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2023-04
- EGMO 2024 scoreboard — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2024-04
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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