New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): Two-time Olympic medallist and former world champion PV Sindhu has been elected Chair of the BWF Athletes’ Commission for the 2026-2029 time period, as per Olympics.com.
In this function, Sindhu can even function a member of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Council, offering gamers with a direct voice within the organisation’s international governance.
PV Sindhu expressed her gratitude for being entrusted with the function and acknowledged Greysia Polii for her excellent work within the earlier time period.
‘To be entrusted with this duty by fellow athletes is an honour I carry with humility and gratitude. I’d additionally prefer to sincerely acknowledge Greysia Polii for the distinctive work she has achieved within the earlier time period,’ Sindhu mentioned as quoted by Olympics.com.
Greysia Polii from Indonesia, a Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist and Asian Games girls’s doubles champion, retired from badminton in 2022. She served on the BWF Athletes’ Commission twice, most just lately from 2021 to 2025.
‘I’m deeply wanting ahead to working intently with BWF to signify each single participant and to struggle for significant, lasting change that really issues,’ Sindhu, who has been serving on the BWF Athletes’ Commission since 2017 and as an Integrity Ambassador since 2020, mentioned on social media.
PV Sindhu, who gained silver on the Rio 2016 Olympics and bronze at Tokyo 2020, is India’s most profitable badminton participant to this point. The 30-year-old shuttler is about to guide India on the 2026 Badminton Asia Team Championships in Qingdao, China.
Debora Jille of the Netherlands, a European Games girls’s doubles silver medallist, will function the fee’s Deputy Chair. Other participant representatives on the fee embrace reigning Olympic girls’s singles champion An Se-young of South Korea, six-time African Games medallist Doha Hany of Egypt, and Paris 2024 girls’s doubles gold medallist Jia Yifan of China.
In para-badminton, Hong Kong China’s Chan Ho Yuen Daniel, who beforehand served as interim chairperson, will now take the function full-time. Indian para-badminton participant Abu Hubaida can also be a member of the fee. (ANI)