Ukrainian students achieve top European team ranking at EuPhO 2026
This year's event brought together students from 41 countries across Europe and beyond, who competed in challenging theoretical and experimental physics exams.
Ukraine's team earned:
The gold medalists were:
Oleh Kurnytskyi won silver. Mykhail Rubtsov took bronze.
Sviatoslav Lavreniuk delivered one of the competition's standout performances. He was the highest-ranked European contestant and posted one of the top overall scores at the Olympiad.
In the overall rankings, which also included students from outside Europe, Lavreniuk finished second, behind only a competitor from the United States.
Ukraine delivered one of its strongest EuPhO performances in years, underscoring the strength of the country's physics education system. Finishing first among European teams, Ukrainian students once again proved they can compete at the highest level internationally.
Earlier, Rubryka reported that a Ukrainian team of 39 students returned from the United States with 19 awards from the international GENIUS Olympiad, one of the world's largest environmental project competitions for school students. Ukrainian participants won one gold medal, one silver medal, four bronze medals, and 13 honorable mentions in the finals.
Rubryka also reported that the Cuboid Mathematics Museum, created by the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, received a special award at the Ecsite 2026 conference of European science centers and museums in Sweden. The honor recognized the museum's success in engaging children and young people in science.
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