Petr Mitrichev

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Petr Mitrichev
Petr Mitrichev after winning the Facebook Hacker Cup 2011

Petr Mitrichev after winning the Facebook Hacker Cup 2011
Native name Пётр Митричев
Born (1985-03-19) March 19, 1985
Moscow
Citizenship Russian
Alma mater Moscow State University

Petr Mitrichev (born 19 March 1985) is a Russian sport programmer who won multiple major international competitions. His accomplishments include gold (2000, 2002) and silver (2001) medals in the IOI, gold medals (2003, 2005) in the ACM ICPC World Finals as part of the team of Moscow State University and winning Google Code Jam (2006[1]), the TopCoder Open (2006,[2] 2013), the TopCoder Collegiate Challenge (2006,[3] 2007[4]), Facebook Hacker Cup (2011,[5] 2013) as well as numerous national and online contests. He has achieved the highest rating ever among the Algorithm competitors of TopCoder.com[6] and consistently ranks in the top two of the world, currently being the world leader as of April 10, 2013. He is also the third highest rated coder in the competitive programming website Codeforces.com[7] as of April 10, 2013. He currently works at Google, where he works on the search engine[8] and helps to prepare Code Jam.[9]

Early life

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 had a special interest towards math.[10] 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. He participated in six all-Russian programming olympiads for high school students, and won three of them - in 2000, 2001 and 2002.[citation needed] He also participated in six summer training camps and five winter training camps for the Russian IOI team`.

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