Silver Medal Winner Of Deaf Olympics India’s Diksha Dagar Is All Set To Create History At Tokyo

New Delhi: An Indian Golfer is all set to create history at Tokyo Olympics 2020. She will participate in Women’s Golf event on August 4. She will now enjoy the unique honour of representing India at two different types of Olympics. Meet Golfer Diksha Dagar, who was born with a hearing impairment and represented India in Deaf Olympics 2017. She will join Aditi Ashok, in the Indian women Golf  team.

Diksha is winner of Silver medal in Deaf Olympics and got the late entry for Tokyo Olympics 2020 because of the last-minute withdrawal of some of the Golfers. She rushed for Tokyo on Saturday, though she was supposed to travel to Ireland as she was entered to play the ISPS Handa Invitational Golf tournament. Diksha was in the reserves list and she got the news from by the International Golf Federation through the Indian Golf Union (IGU). 

“Representing my Country in Asian Games and Olympics is a dream for me. I want to win a medal for my Country, will keep working on that,” Diksha said, before departing for the Japanese capital. She has also represented India at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta where she was one of three women golfers from the country.

Diksha, on her part, thanked the Indian Army, the Sports Authority of India and Ministry of External Affairs for their support.
The 20 year old golfer “So thankful to the people and organizations who supported and trusted me. My family, Indian Army, Indian Golf Union, SAI, MEA, Ladies European Tour, Australian LPG, WGAI and my Sponsors Hero Moto Corp and ASK have inspired and supported me to live my dream.”