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    Charles Champaud (Bulgarian: Шарл Шампо), also spelled Sharl Shampov (Шарл Шампов), was a Swiss gymnast. He represented Bulgaria at the First 1896 Summer...
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    March 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2008. De Wael, KONRAD Gymnastics 1896 "Charles Champaud". Olympedia.org. Retrieved 31 January 2022. Guttmann (1994), 128; "La...
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    at the inaugural 1896 Games, with a single gymnast. However, since Charles Champaud was a Swiss national living in Sofia, some sources credit his appearance...
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    The Bulgarian Olympic Committee claims one gymnast, Charles Champaud, competed for the nation at the 1896 Summer Olympics. This makes Bulgaria one of the...
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    first modern Olympic games in 1896, when it was represented by gymnast Charles Champaud. Since then, Bulgarian athletes have won 55 gold, 90 silver, and 85...
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    introduced by Georges de Regibus, and the game was brought to Sofia by Charles Champaud the following year. The rules of the game were published in Bulgarian...
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  • Committee is established. Bulgaria sends one athlete, Swiss gymnast Charles Champaud, to the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics. The Democratic Party is founded...
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    1928, 1960, and 1964. ^ The Bulgarian Olympic Committee claims that Charles Champaud, a Swiss gymnastics teacher who lived in Sofia, competed for the nation...
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    to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, when the Swiss gymnast Charles Champaud represented the country. Since then Bulgaria has appeared in most Summer...
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    original (PDF) on 16 September 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2022. Archibald, Charles H. (1962). "The Failure of the West Indies Federation". The World Today...
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    and nine other Swiss pedagogues, including Georges de Regibus and Charles Champaud, were invited to Bulgaria by the Minister of Education Georgi Zhivkov...
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  • Federico Cesarano  Kingdom of Italy M fencing 3, shooting 1 1908 1924 4 Charles Champaud  Bulgaria,   Switzerland M athletics 1, gymnastics 1 1896 1896 1 Ran...
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    nation at the modern Olympic Games, although some sources claim that Charles Champaud represented Bulgaria in the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics. Four athletes...
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    P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at [1]) Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998)....
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    organized sports. Other notable Swiss among these sports teachers were Charles Champaud, a teacher in Sofia regarded as the first person to represent Bulgaria...
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    P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at [1]) Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998)....
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    2019. "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 December 2020. Charles Champaud is counted as Bulgarian here; some sources count him as Swiss (making...
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    Champaud's results should be credited to is disputed. Champaud was a Swiss national living in Sofia. The Bulgarian Olympic Committee claims Champaud competed...
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