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Gold Coast (Australia): Rio Olympics silver medallist P.V. Sindhu on Wednesday became the second Indian after her compatriot Saina Nehwal to be inducted in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Athletes’ Commission.<\/p>\nGold Coast (Australia): Rio Olympics silver medallist P.V. Sindhu on Wednesday became the second Indian after her compatriot Saina Nehwal to be inducted in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Athletes’ Commission.<\/p>\n
Sindhu emerged the highest voted player in the BWF Athletes’ Commission election that took place on the sidelines of the Sudirman Cup here.<\/p>\n
The Hyderabad shuttler topped the ballot with 129 votes and will be joined by Marc Zweibler of Germany and Kristy Gilmour of Scotland for a four-year term.<\/p>\n
The trio will be joined by Lithuania’s Akvile Stapusaityte, who will be serving a two-year tenure after replacing China’s Tan Yuanting, who retired after serving just two years on the panel.<\/p>\n
Elated at the development, Badminton Association of India (BAI) President Himanta Biswa Sarma congratulated Sindhu on the achievement.<\/p>\n
“It is a proud moment for us and on behalf on the entire BAI, I would like to congratulate Sindhu for being elected to the Athletes Commission,” Sarma said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Her finishing at the top of the voting charts just shows how popular she is within the fraternity and how much the players across the world believe in Indian badminton.”<\/p>\n
“We are confident that just like how she gives 100 per cent on the court, her level of efficiency will be the same when she dons her new hat,” Sarma added.<\/p>\n
The new Athletes’ Commission will join Saina, Japan’s Shintaro Ikeda and Koen Ridder of the Netherlands, who are already on the players’ body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gold Coast (Australia): Rio Olympics silver medallist P.V. Sindhu on Wednesday became the second Indian after her compatriot Saina Nehwal to be inducted in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Athletes’ Commission.<\/p>\n
Sindhu emerged the highest voted player in the BWF Athletes’ Commission election that took place on the sidelines of the Sudirman Cup here.<\/p>\n
The Hyderabad shuttler topped the ballot with 129 votes and will be joined by Marc Zweibler of Germany and Kristy Gilmour of Scotland for a four-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[11264,22248,466,1811,11623,925],"class_list":["post-34850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-badminton-news","tag-badminton-world-federation-athletes-commission","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-p-v-sindhu","tag-rio-olympics","tag-saina-nehwal"],"yoast_head":"\n