PV Sindhu elected to the BWF Athletes' Commission

PV SINDHU is among the newly appointed members of the BWF Athletes' Commission along with three other European shuttlers.

 

Thanks for choosing me as a member of bwf athlete's commission🙏🏼...thank you all for the support... #thankyouallforsupport#highestvotes😛#129votes#bwf#atheletecommission

A post shared by sindhu pv (@pvsindhu1) on May 25, 2017 at 2:41am PDT

The voting for the same took place today 24th May 2017 on the sidelines of Sudirman Cup in Australia as well as via email during the past month. A total of 183 valid votes were cast. There were two invalid votes.  

Sindhu topped the ballot with 129 votes with Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland placing third overall with 103 votes. Both will serve four-year terms along with Germany’s Marc Zwiebler who received 108 votes. These three replace Yuhan Tan (Belgium), Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (Denmark) and Greysia Polii (Indonesia) who have concluded their four-year terms.

These members join Shintaro Ikeda of Japan; Koen Ridder of the Netherlands; and India’s Saina Nehwal on the players’ representative body.

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