Mangal Singh Champia

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Mangal Singh Champia (born 9 November 1983 in Jamshedpur) is an Indian archer, who won the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2006 Asian Games. He was conferred with the Arjuna award by President of India for the year 2009. Champia is sponsored by Mittal Champions Trust.

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 eye 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.

See also

• Indian Squad for 2008 Olympics

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