UKYPT

The United Kingdom Young Physicists Tournament

IYPT

The International Young Physicists Tournament

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The UK team comprising Philipp Legner (Captain), Gessica Howarth, Charlie Jones, David Kell and Ben Powell Davies, who are all students at Shrewsbury School, came 5th in the 22nd IYPT in China in July 2009. Very well done to the team and team leaders, Steve Adams and Max Chalfin.

The next IYPT tournament will take place in Vienna, Austria from the 9th to the 16th July 2010

History of UK involvement in IYPT

Although the UK has been involved in the the rather larger International Physics Olympiad for many years, hosting it in 2000, it had not participated in the IYPT until 2003. Sue Fryer from the Institute of Physics was the driving force behind getting the UK involved and organised a search for a team. UK competitions were arranged, and a team from Shrewsbury School was selected to carry the flag. The competition that year was in Uppsala, Sweden, and we came a very respectable joint third - not bad for a first attempt. The 2004 competition took place in Brisbane, Australia, but due to the early date of the competition, it clashed with public exams and it was not possible to send a team. The UK team again shared a third place in Winterthur, Switzerland in 2005, but just missed out in Bratislava in 2006. Similar results were achieved in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2006, and Seoul, Korea in 2007.

Mr John Balcombe

IOC Member for United Kingdom

The UK team outside the School of Physics at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, July 2009.

Left to Right.....

Mr John Balcombe, Mr Max Chalfin, Charlie Jones, Ben Powell Davies, Gessica Howarth, David Kell, Philipp Legner, Mr Steve Adams.