Among the capital city’s ten first-prize winners, Nguyen Hoang Tung Lam of the Hanoi–Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, the only tenth-grader in this year’s competition, was brilliant in maths, scoring 27.5 points.
Other cities and provinces with a large number of prize winners were Hai Phong (92 students), Nghe An (88 students), Hai Duong (82 students) and Nam Dinh (77 students).
The annual events took place from January 5-7, featuring written and practice tests in the subjects of maths, physics, chemistry, biology, literature, history, geology, the languages of English, Russian, French and Chinese and computer programming.