- Tshering Chhoden
Tshering Chhoden (born
6 July 1980 in Radhi) is an athlete fromBhutan . She competes inarchery .Chhoden represented Bhutan at the
2004 Summer Olympics . She placed 54th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 600. In the first round of elimination, she faced 11th-rankedLin Sang of China. Chhoden upset the heavily favored Lin, winning 159-156 in the 18-arrow match, becoming the first Bhutanese archer ever to win a match at the Olympics and advancing to the round of 32. In that round, Chhoden facedReena Kumari ofIndia , losing to the 43rd-ranked archer in a 7-4 tie-breaker after tying at 134 in the regulation 18 arrows. Chhoden finished 32nd in women's individual archery.She appears in the 2005
Arte -documentary [http://www.arte-tv.com/de/wissen-entdeckung/geo-360/Diesen_20Monat/360_C2_B0_20-_20Die_20GEO-Reportagen_20im_20September_202005/Die_20Bogensch_C3_BCtzin_20von_20Bhutan/943332.html Die Bogenschützin von Bhutan] .
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