DUSHANBE, March 17, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik school students have reportedly won twelve medals in two Math Olympiads in Kazakhstan.

Mahmoudkhon Shoyev, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education (MoE), says seven school students from Tajikistan – six from Dushanbe-based Tajik-Turkish Lyceum named after Hoji Kamol and one from Dushanbe-based Lyceum # 2 – participated in the 24th Asian Pacific Math Olympiad and the 11th Silk Road Math Olympiad.  Both Olympiads took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan from March11 to March 16.

“Muhammadfirouz Hasanov, student form Tajik-Turkish Lyceum named after Hoji Kamol, has won two gold medals in both Olympiads and entrance scholarship for Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi,” Shoyev noted.

“In all, Tajik students won twelve medals,” said the spokesman.  “In 24th Asian Pacific Math Olympiad, they won one gold, two silver and three bronze medals and in the 11th Silk Road Math Olympiad, they won one gold, three silver and two bronze medals.”

The Asian Pacific Math Olympiad (APMO) starting from 1989 is a regional mathematics competition which involves countries from the Asian Pacific region.  The USA also takes part in the APMO.  Every year, APMO is held in the afternoon of the second Monday of March for participating countries in the North and South Americas, and in the morning of the second Tuesday of March for participating countries on the Western Pacific and in Asia.