With the efforts of World Memory Sports Council, Asia Pacific Memory Sports Council, National Memory Sports Council of Pakistan and the Global Chief Arbiter Mr. Lester He, the World Memory Championships 2020 had adopted online and synchronous mode, where the global memory athlete community competed synchronously in 16 countries and regions.

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The candidates with the best, fastest and sharpest memory skills competed to demonstrate their intellectual power and to set new heights of what the human memory can truly achieve. Fabulous performance by the competitors with many World Records broken and new ones set in place. The 2020 World Memory Championships was a massive success and heartfelt congratulations to all who competed.

 

The results for the 29th World Memory Championships Global Finals were announced today.

 

Emma Alam, the winning champion stated “I am thrilled to have won. I had aimed to give my best in WMC 2020, backed by a lot of daily practice for the past two years with my coach and the institute. It still astonishes me how powerful the mechanism of human memory is and the brain’s infinite information storage system. I plan on competing again next year with even better performance. I congratulate all those amazing competitors who competed from across the globe.”

 

Emma Alam is a dedicated young girl from Pakistan and has competed in various memory championships including the 3rd Asia Pacific Memory Championship in Malaysia, and the 28th World Memory Championship in China, having won countless medals and trophies through her splendid performance. She is currently completing her studies through homeschooling.

 

Abeerah Ather, who is another member of IHMD Team, achieved 7th position in the 2020 global rankings.

 

Emma Alam and Team IHMD was trained under the Institute of Human Memory Development International (IHMD).