Vietnamese students won 4 medals at the 2025 International Biology Olympiad IBO

Four students of the Vietnam National Team competing in the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) 2025 with the Deputy Director of the Department of Quality Management, Ministry of Education and Training at the departure ceremony (Photo: Hanoi National University of Education)

On the evening of July 26, the Ministry of Education and Training announced the official results of the Vietnamese national team participating in the 2025 International Biology Olympiad (IBO), held in the Republic of the Philippines.

All four Vietnamese students who participated in the contest won prizes. The Gold Medal went to Nguyen Luong Thai Duy , an 11th grader at Hanoi -Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, Hanoi , who ranked 7th out of 298 contestants.

2 Silver Medals went to 2 students: Nguyen Huu Thanh , 12th grade student, Tran Phu High School for the Gifted, Hai Phong city; Bui Hoang Dai Duong , 12th grade student, Quoc Hoc High School for the Gifted, Hue city.

Bronze Medal belongs to Le Hoang Kieu Anh , grade 12 student, Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, Hanoi city.

With the above achievements, the Vietnamese team is among the top 10 countries with the highest total points; contributing to continuing the impressive series of results in all international Olympics that Vietnam sent teams to participate in in 2025 and in recent years.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the results at this year's International Biology Olympiad continue to affirm the quality of general education, as well as the right direction in discovering and nurturing gifted students and integrating training programs and evaluating excellent students according to international standards.

The 36th International Biology Olympiad was held in the Republic of the Philippines from July 19 to July 27, with the participation of 81 delegations from 81 countries and territories (including 3 observer delegations), and 298 contestants.

IBO 2025 has a theoretical exam with 2 papers, each paper lasts 180 minutes and a practical exam with 4 labs, each test room lasts 90 minutes. In reality, due to the extra time to prepare samples and equipment, the candidates took the practical exam continuously for 12 hours, from 12:30 on July 22 to 00:30 on July 23.

The theoretical exam has 85 questions, with topics revolving around practical global issues such as environmental pollution, green growth, carbon neutrality, combating climate change, community disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment of some basic diseases according to the principles of precision medicine.

Four practical exam rooms include: Biomedical with competencies in electrocardiogram interpretation, blood and urine biochemistry tests, X-ray image interpretation, measurement and selection of antibiotics for common pathological cases;

Molecular and cellular biology: With the ability to analyze genes, proteins, and measure the activity of molecules in cells to identify and predict the evolution of parasitic pathogens;

Ecology and systematics: Requires anatomical and taxonomic skills for identification, monitoring, and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture development;

Microbiology: With the skills to classify and study the growth process of bacteria and fungi that cause food poisoning in humans.

The International Biology Olympiad (IBO) is often considered the leading comprehensive international competition in natural sciences at high school level worldwide, requiring comprehensive knowledge of Mathematics-Physics-Chemistry-Biology-Environment, along with basic laboratory skills, ranging from the molecular, organismal to the ecosystem and biosphere levels.

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