Diksha Dagar of Team India plays a shot on the second hole during a practice round. GETTY IMAGES

India's Diksha Dagar finished with -1 on the first day of the women's golf tournament in 7th place. She is deaf. She says she has already had the opportunity to talk to other deaf people who have told her that she is an inspiration to them.

It is something that helps her to want to improve. She is ranked 165th in the world, but she is only 23 years old. She has a lot of room for improvement. She was already an Olympian at Tokyo 2020, and she was ranked 50th. 

There are not many cases of deaf people who have been Olympians. In India's case, no one before her. However, she can serve as an example to deaf people all over the world. Deaf people have received more and more representation, but there is always a need to go further.



At the age of six, she started wearing a hearing aid. Shortly afterwards she started playing golf with her brother, who is also deaf, and they were both coached by their father, a former golf player.

As a professional, she has already won two victories on the Ladies European Tour, and has also been successful at the Deaflympics, winning silver in 2017 and gold in 2021, just a few months before taking part in Tokyo 2020.

She has come to the Paris 2024 competition after a traumatic experience, as she was involved in a car accident in the French capital and her mother was hospitalised with a spinal injury. She has three more days left competing at Le Golf National. The idea is to always surpass herself, to blaze trails for other people who are in the same situation as her. That's what the Olympics is all about too.