Aditi Ashok can be decided to make up for her near-miss on the Tokyo Games, whereas Diksha Dagar will look to beat the trauma of a automobile accident as the 2 Indian golfers start their marketing campaign on the Paris Games on Wednesday. Two-time Olympian Aditi had come agonisingly near securing a medal earlier than ending fourth three years in the past in Tokyo and can search redemption this time. Diksha, however, escaped unharmed after being concerned in a automobile accident that left her mom hospitalised. But the 23-year-old from Jhajjar has shrugged off all issues and is set for Olympic success.
1 / 4 of the sphere, which suggests 15 out of 60 gamers, within the girls’s Olympic golf competitors have performed in all three Games for the reason that sport returned to the programme in 2016 and Aditi is certainly one of them.
Her teammate Diksha Dagar, who’s making her second Olympic look, is likely one of the 36 gamers within the discipline, who’ve performed at the least one Olympic Games earlier than this one.
Aditi tees off with Gaby Lopez (Mexico) and Esther Henseleit (Germany) at 9.22 am native time (12.52 pm IST), whereas Diksha performs with Wei-Ling Hsu (Chinese Taipei) and Emma Spitz (Austria) from 10:55 a.m.
The girls’s competitors runs from Wednesday to Saturday.
A rookie winner at her dwelling occasion, the Hero Women’s Indian Open again in 2016, Aditi has now gained 5 instances on the Ladies European Tour however remains to be awaiting her maiden success on the LPGA. She has been on the LPGA since 2017.
Aditi’s huge second got here in 2021 when she was inside a whisker of an Olympic medal, however completed fourth. Despite lacking out on a medal she was appreciated by the complete nation together with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Diksha is a uncommon athlete, who has competed in each the Deaflympics (Olympics for listening to impaired athletes) and the primary Olympics. A double medallist within the Deaflympics, Diksha certified for Tokyo virtually on the final minute. This time, her constant exhibiting in 2023 and 2024 gained her a spot months forward.
In Paris, Diksha suffered an surprising scare when the automobile she was travelling in along with her household, together with her father Col Narendar Dagar, who additionally caddies for her, suffered an accident.
While Diksha and her father had been completely unharmed, her brother bought some minor accidents. However, Diksha’s mom harm her again and needed to be hospitalised. She is now recovering.
Aditi is coming off a tie for twenty second on the LPGA Tour’s Portland Classic that ended this previous Sunday. She performed 4 weeks in row for the reason that Amundi Evian and that is her fifth week on the trot.
Aditi had her father, Ashok, on bag in 2016 after which it was her mom Maheshwari caddying for her in Tokyo. Her father, who has been along with her on the LPGA more often than not, can be doing the obligation once more in Paris.
In Tokyo, Nelly Korda (United States) gained the gold, whereas Mone Inami of Japan beat Lydia Ko (New Zealand) for the silver medal with a two-putt par on the primary additional gap. Ko bought the bronze and India’s Aditi ended a heart-breaking fourth.
In Rio 2016, Inbee Park (Republic of Korea) gained the gold, whereas Lydia Ko took the silver and Shanshan Feng (China) was the bronze medallist.
So Lydia is the one participant to have medalled twice and is on the lookout for a 3rd one and a primary gold.
A complete of 33 international locations are represented within the 60-athlete discipline. Twelve of the highest 15 gamers are competing this week.
Six gamers who’re or have reached World No. 1 within the Rolex Rankings, Jin Young Ko (Korea), Lydia Ko (New Zealand), Nelly Korda (USA), Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand), Lilia Vu (USA), Ruoning Yin (China) are among the many gamers within the discipline.
Minjee Lee of Australia can be making her third Olympic look following her brother Min Woo’s Olympic debut within the males’s competitors final week. The Lees are the one brother-sister mixture within the Olympic golf fields.
Celine Boutier is certainly one of two gamers to signify France within the girls’s Olympic golf competitors, together with Perrine Delacour. Boutier had the very best season of her profession in 2023 the place she earned 4 wins, together with a significant championship, The Amundi Evian Championship, in her dwelling nation.
Prior to 2016, girls’s golf was contested within the Olympics twice within the early 1900s (1900 and 1904).
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