| Petr Mitrichev | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1985 Moscow |
| Citizenship | Russian |
Petr Mitrichev is a Russian Coder. He won Gold medal in International Olympiad in Informatics twice in 2000 and 2002 and Silver medal in 2001. He also won the Inaugral Facebook hacker Cup.[1] He also won the Google Code Jam in 2006.[2]
Petr Mitrichev was born in 1985 in Moscow. At the age of 10, he started reading a lot of mathematical books and discovered that he liked math very much. He soon became fond of solving mathematical problems and puzzles. His teacher, Julia Lvovna Vorontsova noticed his keen interest in programming and invited him to attend the computer science olympiad of the Northwestern District of Moscow, where he took fourth place, which qualified him for the Moscow programming Olympiad. At that same Moscow programming olympiad in 1997, Petr took sixth place. Since that 1997 event, his programming contest career has never stopped. He participated in six all-Russian programming olympiads for high school students, and won three of them - in 2000, 2001 and 2002. He also participated in six summer training camps and five winter training camps for the Russian IOI team.