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Chris Day, General Secretary, World Memory Championships

 

The 21st World Memory Championships has now finished after three days of intense competition with competitors from 24 countries converging on the Lilian Baylis Technical School in Kennington to take part in the event.  

 

The new World Memory Champion is Grand Master JOHANNES MALLOW from Germany with a cumulative score of 8413 championships points.  In Silver Medal position, having been head to head through the competition, was fellow German SIMON REINHARD with  a score of 8344.   In Bronze Medal position was JONAS von Essen from Sweden in his first World Memory Championships with a score of 6692.

 

LATEST ADULT SCORES CLICK HERE         JUNIOR COMPETITOR SCORES    KIDS SCORES

 

In the Kids competition, which is run at the same time, the scores were

 

1 Dong Xun 2828
2 Jamyla D. Lambunao 2277
3 Anne Reulke 2249
4 Jakob Krautloher 1852

 

and in the Junior Competition the results were

 

1 Konstantin Skudler 3667
2 Saswat Satapathy 3495
3 Sri Vyshnavi Yarlagadda 3040
4 LI Hua Xi Rui 2994
5 Ni Ziqiang 2416
6 Timo Sprekeler 1787
7 Princess Grace N. Mendoza 1579
8 Ian Roi Spencer A. Betiong 1064
9 Blessie Mae Ayalde 885
10 Lam Tin Lok 534

 

The team of international arbiters who marked the results were lead by the head of the Australian Memory Sports Council, Jennifer Goddard and the competition itself is supervised by the chief arbiter of the World Memory Sports Council, Phillip Chambers.

"Memory is a lost art" says founder Tony Buzan "these days we rely on our phone, iPads and computers to memorise things of our behalf, as a result we are not exercising our most important mental muscle - our Brains"