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{{RfD|Does every country participating in the IMO deserve an article about their participation? In the Albanian article most of the references are mere passing mentions of either <country>, or <country>'s participation in the IMO. In the other articles, there are news coverages and some papers cited, but can the coverage of each country's participation be significant and in-depth as other events such as the Olympics, and where it's worth covering each participating country?}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Albania at the International Mathematical Olympiad
| image = Flag_of_Albania.svg
| caption = [[Flag of Albania]]
| formation = {{start date and age|1993}}
| region = Albania
| language = Albanian
| key_people = Adrian Naço
}}[[Albania]] began to participate at the [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] in 1993, and has competed since then.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Christopher|first=Peter R.|date=1997-12-01|title=Mathematics in albania|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024337|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=19|issue=1|pages=28–36|doi=10.1007/BF03024337|issn=1866-7414}}</ref>

== History ==
Albania could participate in the Mathematical Olympiad before 1993,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cogan|first=Edward J.|date=1963|title=The Handmaiden Comes of Age|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2312078|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=70|issue=5|pages=554–560|doi=10.2307/2312078|issn=0002-9890|quote=Albania has not been represented at any of the Olympiads, although they could.}}</ref> but International Mathematical Olympiad was decided for all European [[Communism|communist]] countries,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wirszup|first=Izaak|date=1962|title=The First Two International Mathematical Olympiads for Students of Communist Countries|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2312551|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=69|issue=2|pages=150–155|doi=10.2307/2312551|issn=0002-9890}}</ref> except Albania, which was also a communist country.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lyness|first=R. C.|date=1976|title=An Olympiad Problem|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3616234|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|volume=60|issue=412|pages=90–99|doi=10.2307/3616234|issn=0025-5572}}</ref> Albanian students have far better results in geometry than in other fields.<ref>{{Citation|last=Csíkos|first=Csaba|title=Mathematical Learning and Its Difficulties in Eastern European Countries|date=2019|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97148-3_10|work=International Handbook of Mathematical Learning Difficulties: From the Laboratory to the Classroom|pages=145–163|editor-last=Fritz|editor-first=Annemarie|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-97148-3_10|isbn=978-3-319-97148-3|access-date=2022-05-11|last2=András|first2=Szilárd|last3=Rausch|first3=Attila|last4=Shvarts|first4=Anna|editor2-last=Haase|editor2-first=Vitor Geraldi|editor3-last=Räsänen|editor3-first=Pekka}}</ref> In 2016, Albania organized the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-05-12|title=KSA wins five medals at Balkans Math Olympiad|url=https://www.arabnews.com/news/ksa-wins-five-medals-balkans-math-olympiad|access-date=2022-05-11|website=Arab News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=BMO 2016, Tirana, Albania|url=http://www.massee-org.eu/index.php/mathematical/bmo/item/54-bmo2016|access-date=2022-05-11|website=www.massee-org.eu|language=en-gb}}</ref> Since 2020, a joint Olympiad between Kosovo and Albania is organized.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The first Kosovo-Albania Math-Olympiads was held|url=http://aksp-ks.net/?page=2,4,702|access-date=2022-05-11|website=Akademia e Kosovës për Siguri Publike}}</ref>

In Albania, half of the participants are boys and the other half are girls.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kaiser|first=Gabriele|last2=Zhu|first2=Yan|date=2022-03-01|title=Gender differences in mathematics achievement: A secondary analysis of Programme for International Student Assessment data from Shanghai|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27527263221091373|journal=Asian Journal for Mathematics Education|language=en|volume=1|issue=1|pages=115–130|doi=10.1177/27527263221091373|issn=2752-7263}}</ref>

Albania is one of the countries which competes at the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad.<ref>{{Citation|last=Gronau|first=Hans-Dietrich|title=Mathematical Competition|date=2011|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14565-0_6|work=50th IMO - 50 Years of International Mathematical Olympiads|pages=101–153|editor-last=Gronau|editor-first=Hans-Dietrich|place=Berlin, Heidelberg|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-14565-0_6|isbn=978-3-642-14565-0|access-date=2022-05-11|last2=Langmann|first2=Hanns-Heinrich|last3=Schleicher|first3=Dierk|editor2-last=Langmann|editor2-first=Hanns-Heinrich|editor3-last=Schleicher|editor3-first=Dierk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Balkan Olympiad|url=https://www.mawhiba.org/en/Initiatives/Competitions/InternationalOlympiad/International-Olympiad/Math/Pages/Balkan.aspx|access-date=2022-05-11|website=www.mawhiba.org}}</ref> Albania has 2 silver medals, 8 bronze medals and 35 honourable mentions.

== References ==
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[[Category:Participating countries of the International Mathematical Olympiad]]
[[Category:Albania]]