Gennady Korotkevich
Gennady Korotkevich is a competitive programmer who has won important national and international competitions in this field since he was 11.
Full name: Gennady Korotkevich
Birthday: September 25, 1994
Birthplace: Gomel, Belarus
Nationality: Belarusian
Occupation: Programming, highly ranked sport programmer from an early age.
In January 2022, he received the award - Codeforces peak rating 3979. His Codeforces handle is tourist.
Gennady Korotkevich’s accomplishments include: Six consecutive gold medals in the International Olympiad in Informatics. The world championship in 2013 and 2015 International Collegiate Programming Contest Worlds Finals. Gennady is the highest-rate programmer in HackerRank, Topcoder, CodeChef, and AtCoder, as of December 2022.
Gennady Korotkevich was born in Gomiel (southeastern Belarus). His parents are programmers in the mathematics department at Frabcysj Skaryna Homiel State University.
When he was 6, he started showing interest in his parents’ activity, and at 8, his father designed a game he could play to learn to program. Korotkevich gained global attention when he qualified for IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) in 2006.
He holds the record for the most successful competitor in the International Olympiad in Informatics history.
In 2019, Gennady Korotkevich was a PhD student at ITMO.
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https://www.redgreencode.com/cpfaq-how-did-x-become-a-top-competitive-programmer-part-2/