CAPS 2024
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The Czech-Austrian-Polish-Slovak match of IMO teams (CAPS) is a competition established to prepare the representative teams from the participating countries for the upcoming International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
This year, the competition took place at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria from July 1 to July 3. Like last year, Ukraine joined as a guest. A new addition this year was the invitation of the two best girls from each country who did not make it to the IMO team. In total, 40 competitors participated. The Slovak team was led by Jozef Rajník and Matej Hanus, and we achieved the following successes:
- 6th place: Matej Bachniček (silver zone)
- 7th place: Eliška Macáková (silver zone)
- 13th place: Samuel Vargovčík (bronze zone)
- 17th place: Lucia Chladná (bronze zone)
- 25th place: Martin Cigler (honorable mention)
- 26th place: Rudolf Kusý
- 28th place: Alica Dományová (honorable mention)
- 37th place: Hana Kalábová (honorable mention)
Eliška, Lucia, Martin, Matej, Rudolf, and Samuel will represent Slovakia at the IMO in Bath (United Kingdom) in less than two weeks. We believe that their experiences from this competition, as well as from many past competitions and preparations, will help them, and we wish them the best of luck.