BAI publicizes money rewards for CWG, World Championship medallists
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The Badminton Affiliation of India (BAI) on Tuesday introduced money rewards of near ₹1.5 crore for the medallists on the Commonwealth Video games and World Championships.
The Indian contingent got here dwelling with its greatest ever exhibiting from the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, bagging three gold, one silver and two bronze medals whereas the Indian males’s shuttlers fetched three medals on the World Championships in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
"Our Badminton gamers have been constantly profitable laurels for the nation and this money award is a small effort to acknowledge their superb achievements during the last two years,” mentioned BAI president Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma whereas saying the prize cash.
The ten-member blended staff, which gained the silver medal in Birmingham will get a complete of ₹30 lakh, or ₹3 lakh every, for his or her effort whereas the eight members of the assist workers will get ₹1.5 lakh every.
Commonwealth Video games males’s and ladies’s singles champions Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu would take dwelling ₹20 lakh every whereas the lads’s doubles mixture of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy shall be rewarded with ₹25 lakh for bagging the historic gold in Birmingham.
Other than the gold medallists, the younger ladies’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will take dwelling ₹7.5 lakh for his or her maiden bronze medal profitable effort.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth may also get ₹5 lakh for his males’s singles bronze in Birmingham together with ₹10 lakh for his silver medal profitable effort on the 2021 BWF World Championships in Huelva, Spain.
Sen would add ₹5 lakh to his kitty for bagging the lads’s singles bronze in 2021 whereas Shetty and Satwik will get one other ₹7.5 lakh for turning into the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to clinch a World Championships bronze in Tokyo final month.
"BAI plans to proceed to encourage the gamers for his or her tremendous collection performances too," it mentioned.
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