Indian golfer Diksha Dagar received gold medal on the Deaflympics in Brazil.© NDTV
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar outplayed American Ashlyn Grace within the last to bag gold medal on the Deaflympics, fulfilling her promise of bettering upon the silver-winning efficiency on the 2017 version. Diksha is now the one golfer with two Deaflympics medals – a silver in Samsun, Turkey in 2017 and gold in 2022, which is definitely the 2021 version of Deaflympics. The 21-year-old left-hander, who’s knowledgeable with victories on the Girls European Tour, accomplished a dominant efficiency with a 5 and 4 win within the last of the match play part of the women golf competitors.
She beat Grace Johnson with 4 holes to spare In 2017, when golf was first launched on the Deaflympics, Diksha, then nonetheless an newbie and nonetheless wanting her seventeenth birthday, reached the ultimate comfortably.
There she misplaced in a play-off to American Yost Kaylin, who at the moment was additionally enjoying within the Symetra Tour and a few occasions on the LPGA Tour.
In 2021, Diksha additionally certified on the final second for the Tokyo Olympics and have become the primary golf participant to have ever performed at each Deaflympics and the Olympic Video games.
Turning professional in early 2019, Diksha received the Investec South Africa Girls’s Open that yr itself. In 2021, she was a part of the profitable crew on the Aramco Crew Collection London. Each occasions are a part of the Girls European Tour.
Whereas nonetheless being an newbie she additionally received a number of occasions on the Hero Girls’s Professional Circuit in India.
Diksha has a listening to impairment and began carrying listening to aids from the age of six.
The battle for the bronze medal was exhausting fought as Frenchwoman Margaux ended Norwegian Andrea Hovtsein’s try for a second medal on the third play-off gap, that’s the twenty first gap. Andrea was the bronze medallist in 2017.
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