Mangal Singh Champia



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.

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.