Two results near the ceiling
EGMO's official scoreboards record every contestant by national code with her marks on six problems, a total out of 42, a rank and a medal. Ilani appears on two of them under Israel, and both totals sit in the mid-thirties.
The 2024 entry reads 36 points and a rank of six, shared with two other contestants. The 2025 entry reads 35 points and fifth place. One point lower, one place higher: an illustration of how a rank at this level tracks the field rather than the raw number.
The three-way tie in Georgia
The 2024 scoreboard puts Ilani level with Angela Liu of the United States and Irem Gulce Yazgan of Turkey, all three on exactly 36 points and all three awarded gold at the shared rank of sixth.
That kind of tie is routine in a competition whose totals are built from six problems marked out of seven. The scoreboard does not separate contestants on the same score, so a three-way sixth place stands as published.
Israel at the girls' olympiad
Ilani's results follow a run of strong Israeli performances visible in the same set of documents. The 2023 scoreboard from Portoroz in Slovenia lists Nogah Friedman of Israel among the fourteen contestants who finished on a perfect 42.
Across the editions consulted here, the olympiad moved from Slovenia to Georgia to Kosovo, each with a new set of problems. Israeli names appear near the top of each of those tables, which is a matter of record rather than interpretation. The scoreboards do not explain how that pipeline works, and this page does not guess at a training system it cannot see.
What is documented - and what is not
The evidence behind this page is narrow and primary: scoreboards published by the olympiad. They give a name, a country, six problem scores, a total, a rank and a medal. They give no birth year, age, school, home city, photograph or quotation.
No Wikipedia article on Netta Ilani was found, and no interview or news profile appears in the sources used here. Those gaps are stated rather than filled. For a competitor who is likely of school age, an unsourced detail is not a small liberty but the one error this site refuses to make.
Why fifth in the world is the harder line
A perfect paper is not the only measure of an olympiad career. Finishing fifth means being beaten by four contestants out of an international field drawn from dozens of national teams, on problems written specifically to defeat well-prepared students.
Doing it twice, in consecutive years and at different venues, removes most of the luck from the reading. Ilani was selected twice, sat two entirely different sets of six problems, and finished in the top six on both occasions. That consistency, not either score alone, is what the record shows, and it is the only claim these documents can carry.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netta Ilani | Israel | EGMO gold medals in 2024 and 2025 | — |
| 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
- Gold medal and 36 points, joint sixth, at EGMO 2024 in Tskaltubo (EGMO official scoreboard)
- Gold medal and 35 points, fifth place, at EGMO 2025 in Prishtina (EGMO official scoreboard)
- Competed for Israel in both years
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No published age, birth year, school or home city
- No Wikipedia article, interview or press profile found
- No documented result before 2024 or after 2025
Questions people ask about Netta Ilani
What is Netta Ilani known for?
Two gold medals at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad, won for Israel in 2024 and 2025.
How old is Netta Ilani?
No source used here gives an age or birth year. EGMO scoreboards record names, countries and scores only.
What were her EGMO scores?
36 points out of 42 in 2024, for joint sixth place, and 35 points in 2025, for fifth. Both results were gold.
Who else finished on 36 points in 2024?
Angela Liu of the United States and Irem Gulce Yazgan of Turkey, both sharing the rank of sixth with her.
Is Netta Ilani on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article on her was found. The record here rests on the olympiad's published scoreboards.
Have other Israeli contestants done well at EGMO?
Yes. The 2023 scoreboard lists Nogah Friedman of Israel among the fourteen contestants who scored a perfect 42.
Where does Netta Ilani go to school?
No source used here names a school, a city or a family, and this page does not speculate.
Where is Netta Ilani now?
Nothing after the 2025 olympiad appears in the sources used here.
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Sources
- EGMO 2024 scoreboard (Tskaltubo, Georgia) — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2024-04
- EGMO 2025 scoreboard (Prishtina, Kosovo) — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2025-04
- EGMO 2023 scoreboard (Portoroz, Slovenia) — European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2023-04
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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