The 30th edition of the BOI 2024 competition was held from May 3 to 7, 2024, in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The Polish team won three gold and three silver medals. Two years ago, a Pole, Antoni Buraczewski, also triumphed.
The competition was attended by 6-person high school teams from 12 countries, with 10 regular participants from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Norway, Poland, and Sweden, as well as guests from Georgia and Ukraine.
BOI 2024 results
A total of 6 gold, 12 silver and 18 bronze medals were handed out. Poland was represented by the winners of the Polish IT Olympiad, who were not programmed in the graduating class.
The winner of BOI 2024 was Adam Gąsienica-Samek from the 14th Stanislaw Staszic High School in Warsaw, who solved all the tasks, receiving the maximum points for each. Two of his colleagues from the same high school also won Gold medals: Stanislaw Lada (5th place) and Tomasz Pływacz (6th).
Other members of the Polish team won silver medals: Paulina Zeleźnik of the 14th Polish-Belgian High School in Wroclaw for 10th place, Jan Myszka of the 1st Cloud High School in Warsaw for 11th, and Marcin Rymkiewicz of the Staszic mentioned above High School for 18th.
The chaperones of our representatives were Bartosz Kostka, who has been involved in the work of the Polish IT Olympiad for many years, and Tomasz Nowak, a former Olympian and this year’s academic European champion in team programming.
About the Poles at the BOI
The Baltic Informatics Olympiad (BOI) is an annual competition that has been held since 1995. Poles have won it 15 times, winning most of the medals: 59 gold, 61 silver and 34 bronze. The BOI winners so far have been the following Polish representatives:
- Tomasz Waleń (1997)
- Andrzej Gąsienica-Samek (1999)
- Bartosz Walczak (2003)
- Filip Wolski (2004 and 2005)
- Tomasz Kulczynski (2006)
- Jakub Pachocki (2009)
- Mateusz Golębiewski (2011)
- Krzysztof Pszeniczny (2012)
- Jaroslaw Kwiecień (2014)
- Artur Puzio (2015)
- Mariusz Trela (2016)
- Antoni Buraczewski (2022)
- Adam Gąsienica-Samek (2023 and 2024)
Read more about BOI 2024 here.
Read about the successes of the Polish team in BOI 2023 here.