Name Mangal Champia Role Olympic athlete | Awards Arjuna Award for Archery | |
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Mangal Singh Champia (born 9 November 1983 in Jamshedpur) is an Indian archer, who won multiple medals in several International event, including Asian Games. He was conferred with the Arjuna award by President of India for the year 2009.
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- Cherukuri lenin volga memorial 9th nationals mangal singh champia olympian and arjuna awardi
- Other Achievements
- 2008 Summer Olympics
- References
Mangal started archery in the year 1995 and became pro in 2008.
He has secured 2016 Rio Olympics berth.
Cherukuri lenin volga memorial 9th nationals mangal singh champia olympian and arjuna awardi
Other Achievements
15th Asian Archery Championships, China: Men's Team Event
3rd Asian Grand Prix, Iran
2nd Commonwealth Archery Championships, India
3rd Asian Archery Grand Prix Tournament, Indonesia
2010 Asian Games: Men's Team Event
15th Asian Archery Championships, China: Individual Event
2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Champia finished his ranking round with a total of 678 points, just one point behind Juan René Serrano and equal with Viktor Ruban and scoring more bull's eyes than Serrano. This gave him the second seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Hojjatollah Vaezi in the first round, beating the Iranian 112-98. In the second round Champia faced 31st seed Bair Badënov, but was unable to beat the Russian who won with 109-108. Badënov went on to win the bronze medal.