The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Tuesday announced cash rewards of close to тВ╣1.5 crore for the medallists at the Commonwealth Games and World Championships.
The Indian contingent came home with its best ever showing from the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, bagging three gold, one silver and two bronze medals while the Indian menтАЩs shuttlers fetched three medals at the World Championships in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
“Our Badminton players have been consistently winning laurels for the country and this cash award is a small effort to acknowledge their amazing achievements over the last two years,тАЭ said BAI president Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma while announcing the prize money.
The 10-member mixed team, which won the silver medal in Birmingham will get a total of тВ╣30 lakh, or тВ╣3 lakh each, for their effort while the eight members of the support staff will get тВ╣1.5 lakh each.
Commonwealth Games menтАЩs and womenтАЩs singles champions Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu would take home тВ╣20 lakh each while the menтАЩs doubles combination of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will be rewarded with тВ╣25 lakh for bagging the historic gold in Birmingham.
Apart from the gold medallists, the young womenтАЩs doubles combination of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will take home тВ╣7.5 lakh for their maiden bronze medal winning effort.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth will also get тВ╣5 lakh for his menтАЩs singles bronze in Birmingham along with тВ╣10 lakh for his silver medal winning effort at the 2021 BWF World Championships in Huelva, Spain.
Sen would add тВ╣5 lakh to his kitty for bagging the menтАЩs singles bronze in 2021 while Shetty and Satwik will get another тВ╣7.5 lakh for becoming the first Indian menтАЩs doubles pair to clinch a World Championships bronze in Tokyo last month.
“BAI plans to continue to encourage the players for their super series performances too,” it said.
