Mangal Singh Champia

Mangal Singh Champia
Medal record
Men's recurve archery
Representing  India

Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place2006 DohaTeam
Bronze medal – third place2010 GuangzhouTeam
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place2007 Xi'anTeam
Silver medal – second place2009 DenpasarTeam
Bronze medal – third place2007 Xi'anIndividual
Archery World Cup
Silver medal – second place2015 WroclawMixed Team
Gold medal – first place2010 AntalayaTeam
Silver medal – second place2010 PorecTeam
Silver medal – second place2009 AntalayaTeam
Gold medal – first place2009 CroatiaTeam
Gold medal – first place2009 Santo DomingoTeam
Gold medal – first place2008 AntalayaTeam
Bronze medal – third place2008 CroatiaTeam

Mangal Singh Champia (born 9 November 1983) is an Indian archer, who won multiple medals in several international events, including the 2006 Asian Games. He was conferred with the Arjuna award by the President of India for the year 2009.

Mangal started archery in the year 1995 and became pro in 2008.

He has secured 2016 Rio Olympics berth.[1]

Other achievements

Source:[2]

1st place, gold medalist(s) 15th Asian Archery Championships, China: Men's Team Event

1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd Asian Grand Prix, Iran

2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd Commonwealth Archery Championships, India

2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd Asian Archery Grand Prix Tournament, Indonesia

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2010 Asian Games: Men's Team Event

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Archer Mangal Singh Champia clinches Rio berth". The Times of India. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Mangal Singh Champia". World Archery. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Athlete biography: Mangal Singh Champia". beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 13 August 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
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