Internet Desk: PV Sindhu was voted to be one of the members of the four placed representative body of the BWF Athletes Commission.
The Olympic silver medalist topped the ballot after securing 129 votes.
“I am happy to be elected as a member. Thanks to the players who have elected me. It is a great responsibility and I will surely do justice to my new post,” Sindhu told PTI.
Apart from her Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland was third in achieving the votes after she secured 103 votes.
Akvi Stapusaityte of Lithuania became the third women of the commission after she secured 25 votes.
The three women along with Germany’s Marc Zwiebler who received 108 votes will serve a term of four years and would replace the previous commission which comprised of Yuhan Tan of Belgium, Hans-Kristian Solberg of Denmark and Greysia Polii of Indonesia.
Stapusaityte will only serve two years as she will finish the term of Tang Yuanting. The Chinese player became a member of the Athletes’ Commission in 2015 but resigned following her retirement from badminton last year, thus leaving a casual vacancy on the Commission.
Regulations stipulate the male with highest number of votes; the female with the highest number of votes and then the person with the next highest number of votes (male or female) win the three places. By virtue of Tang’s resignation, the female with the next-highest number of votes was required to replace her.
Voting took place on the sidelines of the ongoing Sudirman Cup in Gold Coast today as well as via email during the past month. A total of 183 valid votes were cast. There were two invalid votes.
The new Athletes’ Commission members will join Shintaro Ikeda of Japan; Koen Ridder of the Netherlands; and India’s Saina Nehwal on the players’ representative body.