Diksha Dagar bags gold medal at Deaflympics 2022

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• May 12, 2022 | Sukalpa Dhar

Diksha is now the only golfer with two Deaflympic medals; silver in Samsun, Turkey in 2017 and gold in 2022, which is actually the Deaflympics in 2021.

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Desk : Diksha Dagar of India defeated American Ashlyn Grace in the final to win
gold at the Deaflympics, fulfilling her promise to improve on her
silver-winning performance in 2017.

The 21-year-old left-hander, a
professional with victories on the Ladies European Tour, capped off a dominant
performance by winning the match play section of the ladies' golf competition 5
and 4. She defeated Grace Johnson by four holes. Diksha is now the only golfer
with two Deaflympic medals; silver in Samsun, Turkey in 2017 and gold in 2022,
which is actually the Deaflympics in 2021. Diksha reached the final of the
Deaflympics' first golf competition in 2017, when she was still an amateur and
only 17 years old.

She lost in a play-off to American Yost
Kaylin, who was also competing on the Symetra Tour and the LPGA Tour at the
time. Diksha qualified for the Tokyo Olympics at the last minute in 2021,
making her the first golfer to compete in both the Deaflympics and the Olympic
Games.

Diksha reached the final of the
Deaflympics' first golf competition in 2017, when she was still an amateur and
still under the age of 17.

She lost in a play-off to American Yost
Kaylin, who was also competing on the Symetra Tour and in some LPGA Tour events
at the time.

Diksha also qualified for the Tokyo
Olympics at the last minute in 2021, making her the first golfer to compete in
both the Deaflympics and the Olympic Games.