Badminton Star PV Sindhu has been in the news since she won the Silver medal in women’s singles at Rio Olympics. She has been the flavor of the season. She won a billion hearts when she became the first woman to win a silver medal for India in the Olympics.

We all know that the Indian shuttler PV Sindhu was rewarded in a great manner after she won silver medal in the Rio Olympics but do you know how much cash award did Carolina Marin, the Spanish badminton player who defeated Sindhu, got?

Carolina Marin, who is in India nowadays to take part in the ongoing Premier Badminton League, speaking at a press conference in Delhi said,

“I heard she (Sindhu) got millions. That’s huge. I, too, got some cash award from the Spanish government.“

As per Sportskeeda, Marin also added that:

“I actually roughly received 10-15 % of the money Sindhu got, but this is a great indicator that the sport is so popular here. Back in Spain, it’s only popular in certain regions, even there the craze isn’t this big. So the country is a model of sorts for commercial development of the sport.“

Carolina became the first non-Asian female player to win the gold medal in badminton singles at Olympics after she defeated Sindhu and the government of Spain awarded her with the cash prizes of only €94,000 (approx Rs. 70 lakh).

PV Sindhu is the name which made India proud at the Rio Olympics 2016 and this 21 years old shuttler received Rs. 13 crore in cash awards only by various state governments and institutions.

Apart from this, the cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar presented her a luxury car on behalf of Hyderabad Badminton Association’s president, V Chamundeswaranath.

As per latest reports, Sindhu has also been roped by various companies for advertisement purposes and these deals amount to nearly Rs. 50 crore. With this Sindhu is all set to become the first Indian sportsman to earn such a huge amount who is not associated with cricket.

Interestingly, Carolina had defeated Saina Nehwal in the finals of the All England and World Championship last year. When she was asked to give her opinion on the comparison of both the Indian shuttlers, she said,

“I think both are great players, I can’t select one of them, both are different and tough to beat. I really have to get my 100 percent to defeat them.”

Currently, Carolina is representing the Hyderabad Hunters in the second season of PBL and the 11-point best of three games scoring system is used in this tournament, something which BWF wants in the International levels too.

Well, let’s hope that our Indian shuttlers perform in the same manner as they have been awarded cash prizes.