Karma (archer)

Last updated

Karma
Personal information
Born (1990-06-06) 6 June 1990 (age 35)
Tsenkharla, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in) [1]
Weight51 kg (112 lb) [1]
Sport
CountryFlag of Bhutan.svg  Bhutan
Sport Archery
Event Recurve
Medal record
Women's archery
Representing Flag of Bhutan.svg  Bhutan
South Asian Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Pokhara Individual recurve
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Pokhara Team recurve

Karma (born 6 June 1990 [1] ) is a Bhutanese recurve archer. She represented Bhutan at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, and won two bronze medals for Bhutan at the 2019 South Asian Games in Nepal.

Contents

Career

Being interested in sports, Karma took up archery in April 2009. She was a runner in school. [2] Her first appearance as an international competitor was in 2012 [3] and by 2018, she had competed in at least eight international events. [4]

Karma 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] [6] She was defeated in the first round by Tuyana Dashidorzhieva of Russia. [7] She was the flag-bearer for Bhutan during the Parade of Nations. [8] Karma competed at the 2019 South Asian Games in Pokhara, winning bronze in the women's individual recurve competition and helping her team win bronze in the team recurve competition. [9]

Karma took part in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and was again a flag-bearer for Bhutan in the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. She was the first athlete from Bhutan to receive a place in the Olympic quota allocation system in any sport [10] 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 when an arrow strikes into another arrow that is already in the target board, splitting it, as told in the legends of Robin Hood. [11]

Karma earned a spot at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo after qualifying via the 2018 Asian Championships [12] in Bangkok, Thailand. [13] She lost to Deepika Kumari of India 6–0 in round of 64 at the 2020 Olympics. [14] Karma said that qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics had been her biggest dream as well as an achievement for her country. [15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Karma". Bhutan Archery Federation. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Stanley, John (5 August 2016). "For Bhutan, Rio Hopes Rest With Karma (Literally)". Archery 360. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Karma". World Archery. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  4. ↑ "Bhutanese athletes gear up for 18th Asian Games 2018 – Business Bhutan". 15 August 2018. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 "How Karma's helping raise the Gross National Happiness for Bhutan". Olympics.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Coach Park Young-Sook Bhutan Archery Federation". Bhutan Olympic Committee. 31 January 2025. Archived from the original on 29 April 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  10. ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "OCA » Bhutan archer Karma shoots a rare 'Robin Hood' on road to Tokyo 2020". ocasia.org. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  12. ↑ Agarwal, Kalptaru (23 July 2021). "Meet Karma – Bhutan's first archer to qualify through Olympics quota". thebridge.in. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  13. ↑ "Karma becomes the first athletes to qualify for an Olympic quota place – Bhutan Olympic Committee". bhutanolympiccommittee.org. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  14. ↑ "Tokyo Olympics archery: Deepika Kumari progresses to women's individual Round of 16". Olympics.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  15. ↑ "Karma reflects on Olympic milestone for Bhutan archery". World Archery. 29 July 2021. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.