UK Olympiad team go for gold

By Education in Chemistry2010-09-01T00:00:00

The team with RSC President Dave Garner and Jim Dawson of INEOS

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, hosted the finals of the 42nd International Chemistry Olympiad competition

The UK team travelled to Japan a few days earlier than needed to try and beat the jetlag and it certainly seems to have helped, resulting in the best performance by a UK team for the last 10 years. In total the team were awarded 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.

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