Nominated For The BWF Athlete Commission For The 2021-2025 Period, Greysia Polii: I Want To Help My Colleagues Achieve Their Dreams

Greysia/Apriyani (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesian women's doubles specialist Greysia Polii has been nominated for the nomination exchange for the Badminton World Federation Athlete Commission (BWF) for the 2021-2025 period.

Greysia will compete to fill six positions on the BWF Athlete Commission along with eight other badminton players namely Adam Hall (Scotland), Hadia Hosny (Egypt), Iris Wang (United States), Kim Soyeong (South Korea), Pusarla V. Shindu (India), Robin Tabeling (Netherlands), Soraya Aghaeihajiagha (Iran), and Zheng Si Wei (China).

Launching Antara, the election for the BWF Athlete Commission will be held on 17 December 2021 or when the 2021 Badminton World Championships will take place in Huelva, Spain on 12-19 December.

Greysia, who won the women's doubles gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with Apriyani Rahayu, commented on her candidacy for the Athlete Commission.

"I want to help my teammates achieve their dreams and help them to compete in international tournaments," said Greysia on the BWF's official website.

As for the nine names that were nominated, Pusarla V. Sindhu is the only current member of the Athlete Commission, who is running for re-election. Shindu is a member of the Athletes Commission elected in 2017 and its chairman is Marc Zwiebler from Germany.

The Athlete Commission aims to represent the needs and views of athletes to the BWF board and committees. The Chairperson of the Athlete Commission will later be chosen by them as new members.

The Chair of the Athletes Commission will later become a voting member of the board and have the responsibility to advise the committee and the board on matters relevant to athletes.