Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty.
The girls’s staff that received BATC final month will get INR 35 lakh, whereas 2022 Asian Games males’s doubles gold medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty might be awarded INR 12 lakh, males’s singles bronze medallist HS Prannoy will obtain INR 5 lakh and the boys’s staff that bagged silver will collectively get a prize sum of INR 40 lakh.
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Thursday introduced a money incentive of over INR 1.12 crore to the gamers and help workers for their success in main worldwide tournaments together with the Asian Games, Badminton Asia Team Championship and the BWF World Junior Championships.
The girls’s staff that received the historic Badminton Asia Team Championship (BATC) crown final month will get INR 35 lakh, 2022 Asian Games gold medallist males’s doubles mixture of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are awarded INR 12 lakh, 2022 Asian Games males’s singles bronze medallist HS Prannoy will obtain INR 5 lakh whereas the boys’s staff that bagged the 2022 Asian Games silver for the primary time will collectively get a prize sum of INR 40 lakh.
The BAI has additionally rewarded 2023 BWF World Championships bronze medallist Ayush Shetty (INR 1 lakh), Badminton Asia Junior U-15 boys singles champion Bornil Aakash Changmai (INR2 lakh), U-17 women singles silver medallist Tanvi Sharma (INR 1 lakh) and U-15 boys singles bronze medallist Jagsher Singh Khangurra (INR 50,000).
“Indian badminton is on the upswing and this has been achieved due to the hard work and dedication of the players and the support staff. BAI has always been at the forefront of applauding the success of the players and this cash prize is just another way of acknowledging their efforts and incentivising the future generation to aim for bigger success,” stated BAI secretary Sanjay Mishra.
BAI has additionally determined to present a prize cash of INR 18 lakh for the Yonex-Sunrise forty fifth Indian Masters National Badminton Championships to be held in Panchkula, Haryana from March 16.
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“The participation and level of competition has been going up over the years and many players are now making a mark on the international circuit. A sizable prize money for the Masters Nationals will only help popularise the Masters circuit in the country and attract many more talented shuttlers to continue playing and winning laurels for the country,” Mishra additional added.
The help workers accompanying the ladies’s staff at BATC and the Asian Games males’s staff can even earn INR 8 lakh every.
