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Olympic Games London 2012 : Bhutanese archers' results

Olympics: Sherab Zam loses game, wins heart

Bhutanese were glued to their television sets for about 10 minutes last evening, rooting for archer Sherab Zam, as she played against USA's Lorig Khatuna in the round of 64 archery competition.

As a knockout event scheduled for five sets, home girl in white shirt, marked with yellow and orange, lost in three straight sets 22 -28, 21-26, 22-26.

The knockout was played, with each contestant shooting three arrows a set.

The 64 players were paired with rank 1 playing 64, 2 with 63, 3 against 62 and so on.

28-year-old Sherab Zam was ranked 61 while 38-year -old Lorig Khatuna was ranked 4. The ranking was done at the beginning of the games with a point shoot-out amongst the girls.

With Sherab's loss, Bhutan bows out of the 2012 Olympics.Bhutan had sent two participants to participate in the games as wildcard entries.The other contestant, Kunzang Choden, took part in the 10m air rifle shooting.
Olympic Round of the Olympic archery competition
August 1, 2012, Start Time: 12:15 GMT, Lord's Cricket Ground
Women Elimination round - Individual
Name NOC End 1 End 2 End 3 Score
ZAM Sherab Bhutan 22 21 22 65
vs
Name NOC End 1 End 2 End 3 Score
Winner LORIG Khatuna USA 28 26 26 80

Zam and Khatuna shootout

Bhutan's Sherab Zam will be shooting head to head against USA's Lorig Khatuna in the round of 64 on Wednesday at 5:15pm Bhutan standard time (BST) at Lord's cricket ground.

Sharab Zam
The shootout will be played over the best of five sets, with each set consisting of three arrows an archer.

The 28-year-old scored 589 to rank 61 in the ranking round while USA's Lorig Khatuna, 38, scored 669 to rank 4th. Their world rankings are 471 and 24 respectively.

Sherab Zam is one of two Bhutanese participating in the London Olympics that started onJuly 27, 2012.

The other is Kunzang Choden who was eliminated in the Women's 10 mtr air rifle event.

Both were wildcard entries, as Bhutan is a member of International olympic committee.
Source: KUENSEL, Bhutan's National Newspaper, August 2012
External links
30th Olympic Games London 2012
London 2012
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World Archery International Archery Federation FITA
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