The achievement
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.
A medal for the region, and a ladder for others
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.
SOURCES
- IARCS · official INOI-2026 results ↗ · Official olympiad results
- IARCS · Indian Computing Olympiad archives 2026 (APIO report) ↗ · Official olympiad report
