Eleventh in the world, Bath 2024
The 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad was staged in Bath, in the United Kingdom, with 609 contestants listed in the official individual results. Raikhman appears under Belarus with a total of 34 points out of a possible 42, a rank of 11 and a gold medal.
Eleventh place is the strongest result of the two documented here. The table behind it records his marks on each of the six problems, the only detailed account of the performance available in public. Nothing in the official record describes how he prepared, who coached the Belarusian team or how the selection for it was run, and this page does not speculate about any of it.
Australia 2025: the paradox of a better score
The following year the olympiad moved to the Sunshine Coast in Australia, and the field grew to 630. Raikhman scored 35, one point more than in Bath, and took gold again. His rank was 27.
The movement is not a decline in form but a feature of the format. Every rank is relative to one particular field on one particular pair of mornings, and the tables show that his 2025 placing was shared with Yotam Budnik of Israel, who also finished on 35 points.
What the tables record
An IMO contestant sits six problems, listed P1 to P6 on the results page, each marked out of seven points, for a maximum of 42. The award column beside each total carries the letter G, S or B for gold, silver or bronze.
Contestants with identical totals share a rank, so the tables are full of joint placings rather than a clean ladder. Raikhman's two entries both read G, two years apart, under the same national code.
What is documented - and what is not
This page rests on two official results pages and nothing else. They provide a name, a country, six problem scores, a total, a rank and a medal. They do not provide a birth year, a school, a city, a photograph or a single quoted word.
No Wikipedia article on Raikhman was found, and none of the sources used here carries an interview or a news profile. Those absences are recorded rather than filled. For young competitors, the honest page is the one that marks the edge of the evidence.
Why two golds is the rare part
The olympiad's results are organised by country, each contestant carrying a national code, and that structure is what allows a single competitor to be traced across editions. Raikhman's name appears under Belarus in 2024 and again in 2025, which means two national selections and two fresh sets of problems.
Fields at the editions consulted here ran from 609 contestants in Bath to 630 in Australia and 666 in Shanghai in 2026. Reaching the top 30 of such a field is unusual; doing it in consecutive years, as the cohort turns over and the problems change entirely, is the achievement the two lines actually describe.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
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What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Gold medal, 34 points, rank 11 of 609 at the 2024 IMO in Bath (IMO official individual results)
- Gold medal, 35 points, rank 27 of 630 at the 2025 IMO in Australia (IMO official individual results)
- Represented Belarus in both years
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No published age, birth year, school or hometown
- No Wikipedia article, interview or press profile found
- No documented activity after the 2025 olympiad
Questions people ask about Mikhail Raikhman
What is Mikhail Raikhman known for?
Two gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, won for Belarus in 2024 and 2025.
How old is Mikhail Raikhman?
No source used here gives his age or birth year. The IMO publishes scores and countries, not dates of birth.
What were his IMO scores?
34 points out of 42 in Bath in 2024, ranked 11th, and 35 points in Australia in 2025, ranked 27th. Both results were gold.
How can a higher score produce a worse rank?
Rank is relative to the field. If a paper is more tractable, totals rise across the board, and 35 points in one year can place lower than 34 in another.
Who shared his 2025 rank?
The official results list Yotam Budnik of Israel on the same total of 35 points and the same rank of 27.
Is Mikhail Raikhman on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article on him was found. The record here is drawn from the olympiad's own results pages.
Where does he study?
No source used here names a school, a university or a home city.
Where is Mikhail Raikhman now?
Nothing after the 2025 olympiad appears in the sources used here.
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Where did Mikhail Raikhman place at the 2024 IMO?
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Who shared his rank of 27 at the 2025 olympiad?
Sources
- IMO 2024 - individual results — International Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2024
- IMO 2025 - individual results — International Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2025
- 67th IMO 2026 - individual results — International Mathematical Olympiad (official), 2026
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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