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2005 Google Code Jam Winner Announced

The Google Code Jam competition has a winner ? Marek Cygan, a student at Warsaw University in Poland. The annual computer programming competition hosted by this search engine giant brought 14,500 registrants from all parts of the world to bring home the $10,000 grand prize. This is the third year of the Google Code Jam, which is hosted in collaboration with Top Coder, the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development.

`It`s an honor to host the most talented computer programmers in the world,` said Alan Eustace, vice president, Engineering and Research, Google Inc. `With more than twice as many participants in the Google Code Jam this year, competition was fierce. Congratulations to Marek and all of our finalists.` The second place winner was Erik-Jan Krijgsman, a student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and the third place winner was Petr Mitrichev, a student at Moscow State University in Russia. Both received a $5,000 cash prize.

Additional cash prizes were awarded to the other top 100 finalists, who came from 32 countries ranging from Scandinavia to Southeast Asia. Google flew all finalists to its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters to compete in the championship round of the coding competition. In 2004, Sergio Sancho, a student at the University of Buenos Aires, took home the grand prize.