World Finals · IOAI 2026 · Astana
Team Spain 2026.
Eight secondary-school students, chosen through a national selection open to every student in Spain, represented the country at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence for the first time.
2 silver medals 1 bronze medal 3 honourable mentions
The result
26th of 108, on its debut.
In the official team ranking Spain finished ahead of Japan, Germany, Belarus and New Zealand, countries with decades of olympiad tradition.
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26
Spain’s place in the team ranking
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108
Countries and territories
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466
Contestants at the final
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8
Spanish students, on two teams
The team
The students who represented Spain.
Silver medal
Henri-Alexander Semenov
American School of Barcelona
Silver medal
Tomás Lázaro Danoni
Institut Tiana
Bronze medal
Llúria Torras Arcusa
Escola el Cim, Vilanova i la Geltrú
Honourable mention
Héctor Villanueva Dávila
The British School of Tenerife
Honourable mention
Varun Aditya
St. George's British School
Honourable mention
Roberto Lloréns Dueñas
Escola Professional Salesians de Sarrià
Participant
Ruiwen Zheng
St. George's British School, Barcelona
Participant
Fanxi Xiang
Oak House School
I started programming only six months before the Tenerife camp. I began with the free Leagues of Code exercises, kept working through the programming and maths problems, passed the first round, then the second and then the third, and before I knew it I was on the team.
Tomás Lázaro Danoni Silver medal · Institut Tiana The road to Astana
Free at every stage.
The same support for every student who qualified, organised and funded by Harbour.Space.
- Selection
Rounds open to every student
An open entry round, then harder rounds in maths, programming and machine learning, with Leagues of Code’s self-study modules free from the first day.
- Training
Months of online coaching
The top qualifiers trained online for several months with expert coaches.
- Camp
Two weeks in Tenerife
A residential academic camp, alongside the delegations of Georgia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia and Ukraine.
- World final
Astana, 2 – 8 August 2026
Two individual six-hour exams on advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence problems.
2026–2027 Cycle