By ARAB NEWS

RIYADH: A Saudi girl won a bronze medal in the European Girl’s Mathematical Olympiad 2012 conducted at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, in the UK.

Abrar Al-Sheikh of the Saihat Girls Secondary School in the Eastern Province won the bronze medal on Monday having solved four complex problems in four and a half hours on each day of the two-day event.

Sixteen European countries and three non-European countries participated in the Olympiad this year. Each participating country sent a team consisting of its strongest four female mathematicians of school age.

The inspiration behind this competition is the Chinese Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO) — now an international event.

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