Charles Champaud (), also spelled Sharl Shampov (), was a

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gymnast. He represented Bulgaria at the First 1896 Summer Olympics in

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. Champaud competed in the parallel bars, vault, and pommel horse events. Although the rest of his placings in each competition are unknown, he occupies the prestigious fifth place on vault and earned the first two points for Bulgaria. Champaud was a Swiss national working as a gymnastics teacher at a

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high school when he represented Bulgaria at the first modern Olympics. Bulgaria is thus often included in the figure of participating nations. In Bulgaria, Charles Champaud also played an important role in introducing

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to the country and was the person to bring the sport to the capital city of Sofia in 1895 (the first football game in Bulgaria being in Varna in 1894, organized by another Swiss teacher, Georges de Regibus).

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* Swiss male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century sportsmen Olympic gymnasts for Bulgaria Bulgarian male artistic gymnasts Year of death missing Swiss expatriates in Bulgaria 1865 births Date of birth missing Place of birth missing Place of death missing People from the Principality of Bulgaria {{Bulgaria-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub