Singapore International Olympiad Results 2026: All 34 Medals, All 5 Schools

Three of Singapore’s four biology medals were gold — a 75% gold rate that only Chemistry matched, and that no other team on this page beat. And look at what the practical actually contained: plant computational biology. Biology at this level is no longer a memory subject — it is a data subject. If your child loves bio because it means avoiding maths, this exam paper is the polite correction.

Three golds and a bronze, 7th of 92 countries. But the detail worth pausing on is in the coaching line: the chemistry team was led in part by Mr Lim Ting Liang of Raffles Institution — a serving school teacher standing alongside two NUS chemists. Most olympiad training here runs on university faculty. Chemistry shows what happens when a classroom teacher owns the pipeline: three of the four medals went to Raffles.

Singapore placed 4th in the world in Geography— higher than it placed in Chemistry. This is the only humanities-side olympiad on the list, and the one most parents have never heard of. It is also the one that cannot be crammed: the fieldwork paper drops students into a foreign city and asks them to collect and interpret real data on the spot. Dunman High’s single medal of the entire year is a gold, and it is here.

117 countries. 666 contestants. This is the deepest, oldest and most brutally competitive field in the set, and Singapore finished 4th in the world with six medals — three gold, two silver, one bronze. Now read the coaching line again: Dr Lim Jeck. In 2012, as a 17-year-old from NUS High, Lim Jeck scored a perfect 42/42 and ranked first of 548 contestants at the IMO — the first perfect score by a Singaporean. Fourteen years later he is on the other side of the table, coaching. That is what a working pipeline looks like: the medallist becomes the teacher.

Seven medals — Singapore’s single biggest haul of 2026 came from a competition that did not exist four years ago. In only its third edition, IOAI drew 440 competitors from 95 countries. Two things follow. First, this is the one event where a school outside the usual big three broke through: Eunoia Junior College’s Tan Choon Yong took a bronze — the only 2026 medal won outside Raffles, NUS High, Hwa Chong and Dunman High. Newer olympiads have shallower national squads, so the door is genuinely wider. Second: Singapore hosts the 4th IOAI in 2027. If your child is in Sec 3 or Sec 4 now and codes, that is the most actionable line in the whole press release.

Two silvers, two bronzes, no gold. IOI is the one competition where Singapore did not reach the top tier in 2026, and that is worth saying plainly rather than burying. Competitive programming at IOI level rewards countries running year-round, near-professional training squads. Still, four medals from four medallists is no small return, and Hwa Chong took both silvers— the school’s strongest showing in any single event this year.

One gold, four silvers, and three of the five medals — including the gold — went to NUS High. Two five-hour papers back to back make this as much an endurance test as a physics test. The coaching line is the most internationally striking of the year, too: alongside two NUS physicists sits Mr Clemens Sebastian Dittmer of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Singapore does not only train its physicists locally — it goes and recruits gravitational-wave researchers to help.

Singapore did not place at IYPT. Singapore won it — Overall Champion out of 35 countries. Note the format, because it is unlike everything else here: no multiple choice, no marking scheme. Seventeen open-ended problems, presented and then defended live under cross-examination by international jurors. It is the closest thing to a research viva a 17-year-old can experience. Then look at the five names: two from NUS High, two from Raffles, one from Hwa Chong. The one event Singapore outright won was won by a mixed-school team.