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Hall of Fame — BMO Medallists, UK IMO Teams, and Notable Alumni
A record of UK mathematicians who have walked the UKMT pipeline from Junior Olympiad to BMO Round 2 and on to the International Mathematical Olympiad. The page is structured around the annual UK IMO team rolls and the long line of Fields medallists, professors and senior researchers who began their careers at a UKMT Olympiad sitting.
Recent UK IMO Teams
Year-by-Year Roll of UK IMO Squads via the BMO
The roll below is an editorial reference to recent UK IMO team selections via the BMO pathway. Names and medal tier are issued by the IMO official results archive and the UKMT. This page is updated each summer following the IMO results announcement; the current edition is awaiting the 2026 cohort.
UK IMO Team — IMO 2026, Shanghai
Selected from BMO Round 2 (January 2026) and Trinity Camp (Easter 2026). Team announced May 2026; IMO held in Shanghai, China, in July 2026.
Team roster and medal results to be added after IMO 2026 conclusion in July. Standby for the post-IMO update.
UK IMO Team — IMO 2025, Sunshine Coast, Australia
Six-strong UK team selected via BMO Round 1 (November 2024), BMO Round 2 (January 2025), and Trinity Camp (Easter 2025). IMO held 15–16 July 2025 at the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Team roster: pending school confirmation. Reported result: three gold, one silver, two bronze medals (BMO Subtrust 2025 results post). The full roster will be published as soon as we have written confirmation.
UK IMO Team — IMO 2024, Bath, UK
The 2024 IMO was hosted in Bath, England — the first UK-hosted IMO in over twenty years. The UK team was selected via the standard BMO–Trinity pathway.
Reported result: 2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze, total score 162/252, ranked equal 6th of 108 countries — the UK’s strongest result since 1995. Full team roster to be confirmed.
UK IMO Team — IMO 2023, Chiba, Japan
Six-strong team selected via the standard BMO–Trinity pathway. IMO held in Chiba, Japan, in July 2023.
Reported result: 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze, total score 167/252, ranked 13th of 112 countries. Full team roster to be backfilled from the BMO Subtrust archive.
UK IMO Team — IMO 2022, Oslo, Norway
IMO held in Oslo, Norway, in July 2022, with the UK team selected via the BMO Round 1 (November 2021), Round 2 (January 2022) and Trinity Camp pathway.
Team roster and medal results to be backfilled from the BMO Subtrust archive.
Notable Alumni
UKMT and BMO Alumni Who Shaped Modern Mathematics
Five British mathematicians whose careers began with strong UKMT and BMO performance, and whose subsequent work has shaped modern research mathematics in algebra, geometry, number theory and mathematical physics. The list is illustrative rather than exhaustive.
Sir Timothy Gowers
Gowers represented the UK at the 1981 IMO, winning one gold medal with a perfect score of 42/42, then went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics. His work on functional analysis and combinatorics won him the Fields Medal in 1998, and he was knighted in 2012. He remains active in BMO and Trinity Camp problem-setting.
Geoff Smith MBE
Geoff Smith has served as UK IMO Team Leader since 2002, leading the team at more than fifteen International Mathematical Olympiads, and remains a senior figure in the BMO Subtrust. He was appointed MBE in 2011 for services to mathematics, and is one of the most prolific UK Olympiad problem-setters. His textbooks on problem-solving remain on the Trinity Camp standard reading list.
Imre Leader
Imre Leader, Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge (DPMMS) and Fellow of Trinity College, won silver at the 1981 IMO with 37/42 marks and went on to serve as UK IMO Team Leader from 1999 to 2001. He remains active in Trinity Camp training, and his research on combinatorics and Ramsey theory has shaped a generation of UK Olympiad problem-setters.
Ben Green FRS
Ben Green won silver at both the 1994 and 1995 IMOs via the UK BMO pathway, then went on to a research career in additive combinatorics and analytic number theory. He is the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford, and his joint work with Terence Tao on arithmetic progressions in the primes (the Green–Tao theorem) is one of the major results of twenty-first century analytic number theory.
Joseph Myers
Joseph Myers represented the UK at two consecutive IMOs in the mid-1990s, winning gold both years — one of the rare British Olympians to do so. Now a senior figure in the UK Olympiad community and a long-running BMO problem-setter.
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