The Baltic Way mathematical contest has been organized annually since 1990, usually in early November, to commemorate the Baltic Way demonstration of 1989. Unlike most international mathematical competitions, Baltic Way is a true team contest. Each team consists of five secondary-school students, who are allowed and expected to collaborate on the twenty problems during the four and a half hours of the contest.Forewords in Better (1997), Nummert, Willemson (2002), Villemoes (2007); see below.
Originally, the three Baltic states participated, but the list of invitees has since grown to include all countries around the Baltic Sea; Germany sends a team representing only its northernmost parts, and Russia a team from St. Petersburg. Iceland is invited on grounds of being the first state to recognize the newfound independence of the Baltic states. Extra "guest" teams are occasionally invited at the discretion of the organizers: Israel was invited in 2001, Belarus in 2004 and 2014, Belgium in 2005, South Africa in 2011, the Netherlands in 2015, Ireland in 2021 and Ukraine in 2024 and 2025. Responsibility for organizing the contest circulates among the regular participants.Lists of results in first reference below and web sites linked there and in the next two references.
History
Year Location Teams Winning team Second place Third place1990 Riga, Latvia 3 Latvia ? ?1991 Tartu, Estonia 62 teams from each of 3 countries – Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. Latvia ? ?1992 Vilnius, Lithuania 8 Denmark St. Petersburg Poland1993 Riga, Latvia 8 Poland Latvia Estonia1994 Tartu, Estonia 9 St. Petersburg Latvia Poland1995 Västerås, Sweden 9 Poland Latvia Sweden1996 Valkeakoski, Finland 10 Poland Latvia Sweden1997 Copenhagen, Denmark 11 Poland Germany Estonia & SwedenNo tie-breaker rules were found for Baltic Way 1997.1998 Warsaw, Poland 11 Latvia Estonia Poland1999 Reykjavík, Iceland 10 Estonia Sweden Norway2000 Oslo, Norway 10 Poland Latvia Estonia2001 Hamburg, Germany 11 Israel Estonia LatviaNorway was placed 4th, according to the tie-breaker rules of Baltic Way 2001.2002 Tartu, Estonia 11 St. Petersburg Norway Lithuania2003 Riga, Latvia 11 St. Petersburg Poland Estonia2004 Vilnius, Lithuania 12 St. Petersburg Poland Belarus2005 Stockholm, Sweden 12 Poland Finland St. Petersburg2006 Turku, Finland 11 St. Petersburg Poland Lithuania2007 Copenhagen, Denmark 11 Poland St. Petersburg GermanyEstonia & Lithuania were placed 4th, according to the tie-breaker rules of Baltic Way 2007.2008 Gdańsk, Poland 11 Poland Germany St. Petersburg2009 Trondheim, Norway 11 St. Petersburg Poland Finland2010 Reykjavík, Iceland 10 Poland Lithuania Germany2011 Greifswald, Germany 11 Poland Latvia Germany2012 Tartu, Estonia 11 St. Petersburg Poland Lithuania2013 Riga, Latvia 11 Latvia St. Petersburg Poland2014 Vilnius, Lithuania 12 St. Petersburg Germany Poland2015 Stockholm, Sweden 12 St. Petersburg Poland Estonia2016 Oulu, Finland 11 Poland & St. Petersburg - Sweden2017Sorø, Denmark11St. PetersburgGermanyPoland2018St. Petersburg, Russia11GermanySt. PetersburgDenmark2019Szczecin, Poland11St. PetersburgPolandEstonia2020OnlineDue to COVID-19 pandemic the 2020 edition was held virtually.10GermanyNorwayPoland2021Reykjavík, Iceland12St. PetersburgEstoniaGermany2022Tromsø, Norway10Poland & Germany - Lithuania2023Flensburg, Germany10GermanySwedenLithuania2024Tartu, Estonia11PolandEstoniaGermany2025Riga, Latvia11GermanyEstoniaPoland
Notes
External links and references
Problems, solutions, results and links (some of them broken) to web sites 1990-2010
Baltic Way contest web sites
Problems Baltic Way Mathematical Contests | Problems with Solutions (1990 - 2023)