Charles Champaud

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Charles Champaud was a Swiss gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Champaud competed in the parallel bars, vault, and pommel horse events. He did not medal in any of his competitions, though his exact placings in each are unknown.

According to the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, Champaud, a Swiss national living in Bulgaria and working as a gymnastics teacher at a Sofia high school, competed for that country at the first modern Olympics.[1] Bulgaria is thus often included in the figure of participating nations.

In Bulgaria, Charles Champaud (rendered Шарл Шампо [or Bulgarianized Шампов] in Bulgarian Cyrillic) also played an important role in introducing football 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).