UK Olympiad team returns with four medals

By 2008-09-01T00:00:00

This year's successful Olympiad medallists holding a UK flag

A team of four students from the UK succeeds in the finals of the 40th International Chemistry Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary, in July

Each of the four students in the UK's team at the finals of the 40th International Chemistry Olympiad has returned with a medal from the competition held at the Eötvös Loránd  University in Budapest, Hungary in July. Competing against students from 65 countries, John Morgan of Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, and Nilpesh Patel of St Paul's School, London, led the way for the team by winning silver medals while Peter Aisher of Tonbridge School, Kent, and Sasha Kasas, another student from St Paul's School, were each awarded bronze medals.

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