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India Secures Four Golds and One Silver at International Astronomy Olympiad
The Indian Express44m
THE BRIEF
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The Indian team won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 19th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics held in Hanoi, Vietnam, between September 25 and October 5, 2026.
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Pranjal Dixit, Sumant Gupta, Akshat Srivastava, and Arnav Sehrawat won gold medals, while Harshil Amitkumar Patel secured a silver medal.
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India finished third jointly with Vietnam in the medal tally behind Iran and South Korea, marking a milestone where every Indian participant across all five senior science Olympiads won a gold or silver medal this year.