UKYPT

The United Kingdom Young Physicists Tournament

IYPT

The International Young Physicists Tournament

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The next IYPT tournament will take place in

Taipei, Taiwan July 2013

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 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. Tianjin, China, in 2009, saw one of our best performances to date when we again shared third place. The UK was represented by John Leggott College, Scunthorpe in Vienna in 2010, and most recently in Bad Saulgau, Germany in 2011, but we struggled to find previous form against stiff competition. We now look towards Taiwan in 2013, and the United Kingdom in 2014 which will take place at Shrewsbury School.

Mr John Balcombe

IOC Member for United Kingdom

The UK team in Bad Saulgau, Germany, July 2012