Seychelles sent a delegation to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.

[1] Following these Games, they would be absent from the Paralympics for twenty-four years until the country received assistance from UK Sport in trying to establish a new National Paralympic Committee (NPC) in 2013 with a meeting held between NPC Rwanda President Dominique Bizimana and UK Sport Senior Adviser Elias Musangeya met with Seychelles' Social Affairs, Community Development and Sports Minister Vincent Meriton to discuss the feasibility of this.

[5] He was accompanied by coach Vincent Cedras and doctor Lucia Banane and they received sponsorship from Barclays Bank Seychelles to pay for their expenditure for the Games.

[12][13] His left leg was amputated below the knee because of a grenade explosion while serving in the Seychelles People's Defence Force in August 1980.

[11] Cedras said that the possibility of Charles winning a medal was unrealistic due to a lack of intensive training, "We will be facing people who live and breathe javelin, the best from across the world but you never know in sports what can happen.