Prasan­na Ra­makr­ish­nan­won a sil­ver medal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Math­e­mat­i­cal Olympiad (IMO) held in Thai­land from Ju­ly 4 to 16, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease fromThe Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine.

Ra­makr­ish­nan, a stu­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al School of Port-of-Spain, was part of a five-mem­ber team led by Dr In­dra Haraks­ingh, Lec­tur­er in En­vi­ron­men­tal Physics, and­Jagdesh Ram­nanan, both from UWI.

"We are elat­ed that Prasan­na has brought home a sil­ver medal this year," Haraks­ingh said.

Ra­makr­ish­nan's team­mates were Alex Navar­ro, Ar­jun Isa Mo­hammed and Adam Su­perville.

Here­ceived his prize at the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny, held on Ju­ly 16.

In 2014, Prasan­na won a bronze medal at the com­pe­ti­tion. This year's win makes him the first per­son from T&T to win two medals at the IMO.

"This will be a great in­spi­ra­tion for many high school stu­dents in T&T that they too can as­pire to not on­ly par­tic­i­pate in this chal­leng­ing com­pe­ti­tion but al­so to win," she said.

The IMO is held in dif­fer­ent coun­tries each year and T&T has been par­tic­i­pat­ing since 1991. Over the past 25 years, T&T has won 2 sil­ver medals, 5 bronze and 23 ho­n­ourable men­tions, where a par­tic­i­pant has got­ten full marks for solv­ing one prob­lem.

T&T is the on­ly Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try to com­pete in the glob­al com­pe­ti­tion and is the small­est coun­try to have won this many medals.