1986

The 1986 AMC

A record number of 362,098 students from 2,560 schools entered.

Results are given below for the 1986 AMC. There was 1 perfect score.

Medals were presented at a function held at Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide, on Fiday 31 October, by the Governor of South Australia, Dame Roma Mitchell.

This is the first of two years in which prodigy Terry Tao won a medal. Here he competed as a 10 year old in the Senior Division. He was later to win a Fields Medal, considered equivalent in mathematics to the Nobel Prize.

Back row from left: Daniel Calegari, Ross Jones, Geoffrey Bailey, Jonathon Potts, Ben Robinson, Blair Trewin.

Middle row: Wayne Thair, David Wallace, Carl Detmann, Ralph Loader, Joseph Lau, Adrian Chen.

Front row: Brian Weatherson, Andrew Withy, Jeny Abraham, Dale Hawkins, Adam Hedley, Terence Tao.

The medallists were:

* denotes perfect score