Kolkata boy Md Sahil Akhtar has bagged a gold medal at the 15th International Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad (IOAA), which was held in Kutaisi, Georgia, from August 14 to 21.
Apart from Akhtar, two other students from the India team — Raghav Goyal (Chandigarh) and Mehul Borad (Hyderabad) — won a gold medal each. Raghav also won a special prize for the best solution to the most challenging theoretical question.
The other two members of the team, Malay Kedia (Ghaziabad) and Atharv Nilesh Mahajan (Indore), secured two silver medals each.
In the medals tally, India is now in the third position along with Singapore.
In total, 209 students from 37 main and six guest teams have participated in this year's IOAA. In addition, 24 students from six countries also joined the competition virtually.
The 15th edition of IOAA 2022 was supposed to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine. But it was shifted to Kutaisi, Georgia, due to the war between Russia and Ukraine.