Karma (archer)

This name uses Bhutanese naming customs. Bhutanese people have one or two given names, neither of which is a surname or family name unless they are descended from royal or noble lineages.

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.

Karma

Personal information
Born	(1990-06-06) 6 June 1990 (age 35) Tsenkharla, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan
Height	163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Bhutan
Sport	Archery
Event	Recurve
Medal record Women's archery Representing  Bhutan South Asian Games 2019 Pokhara Individual recurve 2019 Pokhara Team recurve

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]