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by nb_quant 696 days ago
A lot of them become Fields medallists. From [1] "The conditional probability that an IMO gold medalist will become a Fields medalist is fifty times larger than the corresponding probability for a PhD graduate from a top 10 mathematics program."

[1]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20190457