Students of Petrozavodsk State University will be awarded with bronze medals for their perticipation in the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Tokyo.

Students of Petrozavodsk State University will be awarded with bronze medals for their perticipation in the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Tokyo.

By decision of the ACM ICPC Executive Director the Petrozavodsk State University team having won the 13 place in the 2007 ACM ICPC World Finals in Tokyo is awarded with bronze medals!

Decision of the contest heads was announced tonight. We shall remind, that of the 10 problems offered the PetrSU team has solved 6, but it has taken them more time to solve it, than the ICPC prize-winners. The basic group of leaders was compised of 11 teams which have also solved six problems each.

By existing rules of the contest, 12 best commands are awarded with medals. PetrSU programmers have won the 13th place and have come back home without medals, haven won only memorable souvenirs from IBM, the ACM-ICPC World Finals sponsor.

The team of students of the Faculty of Mathematics of Petrozavodsk State University comprises the gold medal winner of the last year's World Contest for high school students in Mexico, now first-year student Denis Denisov, and brothers Alexey and Ilya Nikolaevskiy. Petrozavodsk team was accompanied by coaches Denis Vlasov, Roman Soshkin, Elvira Zavyalova and the club of programmers' founder, Merited Coach of Russia, professor of the PetrSU Chair of Applied Mathematics Vladimir Kuznetsov. The PetrSU President, Professor Victor Vasilev headed the delegation. Last year the team of Petrozavodsk State Uuniversity was a success in San Antonio (USA) having won the 19th place.

Thus, the following Russian teams are prize-winners of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals: St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (gold medals and the 3 place), Novosibirsk State University (silver medals and the 5 place), Saratov State University (silver medals and the 6 place), Moscow State University (bronze medals and the 10 place) and PetrSU (bronze medals and the 13 place).

Title of the World and Europe Champion went to the Warsaw University team. Before the trip to Japan together with all Russian tems they prepared for the world contest in the capital of Karelia, at the winter programming training camp organized by the Club of programmers of Petrozavodsk State University, which became a country famous school of team programming.