Saudi math team wins 4 awards at European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad

PRISTINA, Kosovo: Saudi Arabia's math team won four awards in the recently concluded 2025 European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO).
The April 11-17 competition, hosted this year in Pristina, Kosovo, featured 217 female students representing 56 countries.
All four Saudi contestants won awards, with Fatimah Buali capturing a silver medal, Sarah Aljughayman winning a bronze, and Retaj Alsaleh and Albatool Alaidarous both garnering an honorable mention, according to the EGMO site.
The latest score has raised the Kingdom's medals tally in the annual competition to 36 awards, including 2 gold medals, 7 silver medals, 15 bronze medals, and 12 certificates of appreciation.
The Kingdom was represented by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba), which screens and prepares Saudi children in international scientific competitions and Olympiads.
Saudi Arabia is among the non-European countries that have regularly participated in annual EGMO event, which started in 2012. Among the other regular participants are Japan, China, Australia, Brazil and the United States.
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