BWF Athletes’ Commission – New members elected

Korea’s Lee Yong Dae, Scotland’s Emma Mason and Peru’s Rodrigo Pacheco were elected to seats in the BWF’s Athletes’ Commission, together with other members Kaveh Mehrabi of Iran and Australia Tania Luiz who were elected during the 2008 Olympics and Pedro Yang, who represents the commission in the IOC. The votes held in Almere and Odense provided these three new shuttlers the opportunity to represent their fellow badminton athletes for 4 years.

Amongst themselves (the 6 members) will be elected a new President to succeed to Bobby Milroy.