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is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than hundred secondary school students competed in the thirty-eighth International Olympiad last month in Iran. They came from seventy-three , including the United States. Students from China had the results: four gold medals and one silver. Russia was with three gold, one silver and one honorable mention. came the United States and South Korea. Each team home two gold medals and three silver medals. And teams from Iran and Japan had two gold, two and one bronze medal each. The ten-day Olympiad took in the ancient city of Isfahan. There were written and laboratory experiments as well as discussion meetings. And was news of the death in Isfahan of the of the International Physics Olympiad. Waldemar Gorzkowski was sixty-seven old. The Iranian Students News Agency said he died a heart attack. He led the Olympiad for many . The physics competition is one of the International Science held around the world. The American Association of Physics and the American Institute of Physics choose members of United States team. Physics teachers across the country nominate and committees choose about two hundred of them. The take additional tests to choose the twenty-four members of team. In May the members attend the United States Team Training Camp at the University of Maryland. They through nine days of intensive studying, testing and problem . At the end of the camp, five members of team are chosen to travel to the Olympiad. The this year were Kenan Diab of Ohio, Rui Hu Delaware, Jenny Kwan from California, Jason LaRue of Florida Haofei Wei from Oklahoma. All five won medals. The International Physics Olympiad took place in Warsaw, Poland, in sixty-seven-. Until the early nineteen eighties it was held in the former communist countries of eastern Europe. The States organized a team for the first time in eighty-six-. And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, by Nancy Steinbach. To learn about the American education , go to voaspecialenglishcom where you can find transcripts and of our reports. I'm Steve Ember.

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