Arshika Gupta — 神童の伝記

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Four days in Bielefeld

The Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2026 was held from 4 to 7 September in Bielefeld, Germany. Ninety-nine competitors took part, drawn from fifteen countries: Algeria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Panama, Serbia, Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates.

Competitors were split by age into under-12, under-15 and under-20 divisions, with a separate alumni category for those who had outgrown the junior brackets. Arshika Gupta entered the youngest of them. The championship is scored on a points system rather than by event-by-event medals, so a single number decides each division.

The paper

The main contest is a two-hour written paper covering several distinct families of mental arithmetic: addition and subtraction, square roots, day-of-the-week calculation for given dates, approximate multiplication and division, and highest common factor and lowest common multiple problems.

The published example gives the flavour of the addition section: 726446 + 294855, answer 1021301. Six-digit sums of that kind are trivial on paper and unforgiving in the head, where a single carried digit lost early destroys the answer. Two hours of them, with square roots and calendar problems interleaved, is as much a test of stamina and accuracy as of speed.

The under-12 result

Gupta finished first among the under-12s with 2,545 points. Mohamed Imad Eddine Benyahia of Algeria took second with 2,488, and Mekan Nurgeldiyev of Turkmenistan third with 2,477 — the first medal his country has won at the championship.

The three scores sit within 68 points of each other, which in a division decided over a two-hour paper is close. The organisers noted that the winning total surpassed the previous year's top under-12 score of 2,416, so the standard at the youngest level rose year on year rather than simply changing hands.

How the divisions compare

The other winners in 2026 give a sense of what the scoring scale means as competitors age. Andrej Živanović of Serbia took the under-15 title with 2,817 points from a field of nearly fifty. Kaloyan Geshev of Bulgaria won the under-20 division with 3,045, a total the organisers noted was achieved with only two errors on the entire paper. In the alumni category, Radhika Maheshwari of India finished first with 2,691.

Read against those figures, an under-12 score of 2,545 is not a junior version of the contest but a serious total on the same paper, landing between the standards set in the older brackets. India took first place in three of the four categories contested in Bielefeld.

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What is documented — and what is not

The firm facts are the ones the organisers published on 15 September 2026: the division, the placing, the score, the dates, the venue, the size and spread of the field, and the names either side of hers on the podium. A competition result stated by the body that ran the competition is close to the strongest evidence a record of this type can carry.

Everything else is absent. No age within the under-12 bracket, no date of birth, no home town, no school, no coach and no photograph appears in the source, and there is no interview or follow-up. The championship was held only weeks before this page was written, so any account of what comes next would be invention rather than reporting.

功績の年表

Arshika Gupta — every milestone on this page, in order.

4–7 September 2026

ジュニア暗算世界選手権が開催ドイツのビーレフェルトにてジュニア暗算世界選手権が開催される

September 2026

Arshika Guptaが12歳以下部門で優勝Arshika Guptaが2,545ポイントを獲得し、前年の最高記録2,416を更新して12歳以下部門で優勝

September 2026

トルクメニスタンのMekan Nurgeldiyevが入賞同部門にてトルクメニスタンのMekan Nurgeldiyevが銅メダルを獲得し、同国初のメダルとなる

15 September 2026

World Mental Calculationが結果を公開World Mental Calculationが全結果を公開する

歴史的比較

人物	国	節目	年齢 / 記録
Arshika Gupta	インド	12歳以下世界チャンピオン、暗算、2026年	—
Granth Thakkar	インド	暗算ワールドカップ2014での優勝	—
Mekan Nurgeldiyev	トルクメニスタン	12歳以下銅メダル、2026年ジュニア暗算世界選手権	—
Abhilakshya Arora	インド	ジュニア暗算世界選手権20歳以下部門での優勝…	—
Shashank Jain	インド	Memoriad 2024、8桁の掛け算と平方根で金メダル	—

What is documented — and what is not

✓ Documented

First place, under-12 division, Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2026, with 2,545 points
Championship held 4–7 September 2026 in Bielefeld, Germany, with 99 competitors from 15 countries
Winning total exceeded the previous year's best under-12 score of 2,416

? Unverified, disputed or wrong

No date of birth, exact age, home town or school in the source
No interview, photograph or personal detail published alongside the result
No record of earlier or later competition results in these sources

Questions people ask about Arshika Gupta

What did Arshika Gupta win?

The under-12 division of the Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2026, held in Bielefeld, Germany, with 2,545 points.

How old is Arshika Gupta?

No source in this record gives her age or date of birth. She competed in the under-12 bracket, so she was under twelve in September 2026.

What is in the competition paper?

A two-hour paper of addition and subtraction, square roots, day-of-the-week calculations, approximate multiplication and division, and highest common factor and lowest common multiple problems.

How many competitors were there?

Ninety-nine, from fifteen countries, across under-12, under-15, under-20 and alumni categories.

Is Arshika Gupta on Wikipedia?

No Wikipedia article was found for her. The World Mental Calculation results page is the primary published record.

Who else won in 2026?

Andrej Živanović of Serbia took the under-15 title, Kaloyan Geshev of Bulgaria the under-20 title, and Radhika Maheshwari of India the alumni category.