8 players vie for 3 Athletes’ Comission spots

By
Don Hearn
– February 16, 2013Posted in: news
Players participating in the upcoming German and All England Opens will, in addition to playing, be voting for three new player representatives to the BWF Athletes’ Commission, an organ within […]

Players participating in the upcoming German and All England Opens will, in addition to playing, be voting for three new player representatives to the Athletes’ Commission, an organ within the structure of the Badminton World Federation ().

The candidates are Imogen Bankier of Scotland, Koo Kien Keat of Malaysia, current Commission Chair Kaveh Mehrabi of Iran, Greysia Polii of Indonesia, Tan Yuhan of Belgium, Hans-Kristian Vittinghus of Denmark, and Wang Xin and Cai Yun of China.  The three representatives selected will be the top woman and the top man in the voting and then then next highest in the voting, woman or man.

Existing members of the Commission are Lee Yong Dae  of Korea, Vice Chair Emma Mason of Scotland, and Rodrigo Pacheco of Peru, as well as ex-officio member, Pedro Yang of Guatemala.

For more on the voting process, see information on the BWF website here and here

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Don Hearn is an Editor and Correspondent who hails from a badminton-loving town in rural Canada. He joined the Badzine team in 2006 to provide coverage of the Korean badminton scene and is committed to helping Badzine to promote badminton to the place it deserves as a global sport. Contact him at: don @ badzine.net