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An Iranian team of six students won six gold medals at the fifth Open World Astronomy Olympiad, held in Russia's Sirius Federal Territory from November 6 to 14. IRNA and Tehran Times reported the results on Saturday, naming the winners as Sarina Alampour, Parsia Hassanzadeh, Elshan Rouhani, Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, Bardia Qilavizadeh, and Mehdi Aryafar. Tehran Times described the Olympiad as a modern and fast-growing competition that brings together talented astronomy students from many countries, with tasks written by experts from various countries and organized with the support of Russia's Ministry of Education. Each team has two to six members aged 18 or younger, one team leader, and up to two adult observers, and each country may send only one team. The contest has four rounds, theoretical, practical, observational and test, and is conducted in English, though participants may use a glossary that team leaders translate into their national languages. The reports did not include individual scores or rankings against other countries.