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Team SA records its best performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad in over 20 years

# Team SA made history at the recent International Mathematical Olympiad in Australia, recording the best performance the country has had in over 20 years at the global competition. Five of the six learners representing the country came home with bronze medals, while the sixth earned a well-deserved honourable mention. Five of the learners are from the Western Cape, with one, Yian Xu, from Redhill High in Johannesburg, who was recognised as Africa’s top female high school mathematician.