Karma (born 6 June 1990[1]) is a Bhutanese recurve archer from Trashiyangtse in eastern Bhutan and lives at Thimphu also in Bhutan.[2]
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| Born | 6 June 1990 Tsenkharla, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Bhutan | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | recurve | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editLike with other Bhutanese, Karma is a mononymous person who goes by a single name.[3] Being interested in sports, Karma took up archery in April 2009.[3] She could have been a runner if not archery came first.[3] Her first appearance as an international competitor was in 2012[2] and by 2018, she already competed in more than eight international events.[4]
She competed in the individual recurve event and the team recurve event at the 2013 and 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark and she represented Bhutan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro[5] as wildcard.[6] She was defeated in the first round by Tuiana Dashidorzhieva of Russia.[7] Karma was the flag bearer for Bhutan during the Parade of Nations.[8]
Karma took part in the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, and was again a flag-bearer for Bhutan in the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. She is also the very first athlete from Bhutan who got a place in the quota allocation system of the Olympics in any sport[9] and the first female from Bhutan who qualified for the games.[6] While practicing for the Tokyo Olympics in May 2021, Karma was able to do a "Robin Hood" shot, which is an arrow being fired into another arrow that is already in the target board, splitting it, just like as told in the stories of the legendary Robin Hood.[10] The odds in doing the shot is 1 in 3,000.[10]
She was able to land a spot at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo after qualifying through Asian championships in 2018[11] at Bangkok, Thailand.[12] Eventually, her journey ends in the Tokyo Olympics when she lost to Deepika Kumari of India at 6-0 in round of 64.[13] Despite losing to Kumari, she is satisfied in giving her best and opined that qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics was her biggest dreams as well as an achievement for her country.[14]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Karma". Bhutan Archery Federation. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Karma". World Archery. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Stanley, John (5 August 2016). "For Bhutan, Rio Hopes Rest With Karma (Literally)". Archery 360. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ "Bhutanese athletes gear up for 18th Asian Games 2018 – Business Bhutan". 15 August 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ a b "How Karma's helping raise the Gross National Happiness for Bhutan". Olympics.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
- ^ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
- ^ Basu, Hindol (24 July 2021). "Archery Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: Bhutan's archer Karma waits to challenge Deepika Kumari | Tokyo Olympics News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b "OCA » Bhutan archer Karma shoots a rare 'Robin Hood' on road to Tokyo 2020". www.ocasia.org. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Agarwal, Kalptaru (23 July 2021). "Meet Karma — Bhutan's first archer to qualify through Olympics quota". thebridge.in. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Karma becomes the first athletes to qualify for an Olympic quota place - Bhutan Olympic Committee". bhutanolympiccommittee.org. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics archery: Deepika Kumari progresses to women's individual Round of 16". Olympics.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Karma reflects on Olympic milestone for Bhutan archery". World Archery. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
External links
edit- Karma at World Archery
- Karma at Olympedia (archive)
- Karma at Olympics.com
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