Tshering Choden (born 6 July 1980) is an archer from

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

who competed at the

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and

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. Choden entered the

with a world ranking of 176. She was one of two Bhutanese athletes taking part in the Games, the other being with fellow archer

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, and was selected as Bhutan's flagbearer for the Games' opening ceremony. Choden began the women's individual event with fifty-fourth place in the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round, scoring 600 points from 720. She delivered a surprise result in the opening elimination round with victory over China's

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by a margin of three points, becoming the first Bhutanese archer ever to win a match at the Olympics. Choden faced India's

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in the second round, the pair posting identical scores of 134 points over the regulation eighteen arrows. On the subsequent tie-breaking arrow Kumari outscored Choden by seven points to four. Choden blamed her nerves for shooting so low. Choden retired from archery in 2005 but returned to the sport as a coach in 2007. She coached the only Bhutanese archer at the 2012 Olympic Games,

Sherab Zam Sherab Zam (10 October 1983) is a Bhutanese archer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the Women's individual event. Also, she was selected to be Bhutan's flag-bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is coached by Tshering Chhoden w ...

. She appeared in the 2004

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documentary ''Die Bogenschützin von Bhutan''.

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