Competitive programming (informatics olympiads) · INDIA
Mumbai student who medalled at INOI three years running — silver 2024, silver 2025, gold 2026 (one of ten) — qualifying for the IOITC each year, then won bronze at APIO-2026 as one of India’s six official participants. Co-founder and lead trainer of SPOI, a free olympiad-mentorship programme. Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai.
No age published; Class 12 at INOI-2026 (February 2026)
Maharashtra · India
BEHIND THE RESULT
Most students who reach the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI) do it once. Avighna Chhatrapati of Mumbai medalled at it three years in a row. The official results published by IARCS, which runs the Indian Computing Olympiad, trace the climb: a silver medal at INOI-2024 in Class 10 (that year’s list prints his fuller name, Avighna Kaushal Chhatrapati), silver again at INOI-2025 in Class 11, and on 14 February 2026, in Class 12 at Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai, one of the ten gold medals awarded at INOI-2026. In each of the three years he also qualified for the IOI Training Camp, where India’s team for the International Olympiad in Informatics is selected.
The gold opened one more door. In May 2026 Avighna was one of six official Indian participants at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, held online by Taiwan, and won a bronze medal — one of five medals India took there, as IARCS reported. What he does with the experience is the most unusual part of his record: while still at school, he co-founded SPOI — “Shortest Path to IOI” — a free mentorship programme in which past medallists prepare Indian school students for the same olympiads, with lectures, practice problems and mock contests. He is one of its lead trainers: the medals stopped being only his, and became a ladder for the next students coming up behind him.
Avighna spent part of his own olympiad years teaching other students for free — do you think teaching a skill makes you better at it, or does it cost you the edge in competition? That is a question from us, not part of his record.
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Open the article edition →Mumbai student who medalled at INOI three years running — silver 2024, silver 2025, gold 2026 (one of ten) — qualifying for the IOITC each year, then won bronze at APIO-2026 as one of India’s six official participants. Co-founder and lead trainer of SPOI, a free olympiad-mentorship programme. Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai.
2026-02-14 · Supporting source ↗
IARCS · official INOI-2026 results ↗Official olympiad results
IARCS · Indian Computing Olympiad archives 2026 (APIO report) ↗Official olympiad report
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