British Badminton begin search for world class coach
Last updated 11/2/2008 5:20:55 PM
British Badminton begin search for world class coach
British Badminton are the latest Olympic sport to cast their net around the world in search of a top coach to carry them forward to the London Olympic Games.
They have already advertised the post of performance director at an annual salary of £75,000 and are hoping to attract a top name to help improve Britain's haul of two medals since the sport was introduced at Barcelona in 1992.
In the build up to the London Olympic Games the coach would also be responsible for the European Team Championships scheduled for Liverpool in February and the World Championships in Manchester in April 2010.
The real and realistic target, however, is the Olympic Games in 2016 when the sport's chief executive Adrian Christy hopes to develop Great Britain into the world's top badminton playing nation, a monumental task against the Chinese and the rest of the Asian nations.
Certainly incentives will be needed to top up that £75,000 a year with bonuses for success.
Christy said: "It's a chance to make home advantage count in our quest for medals and success and we can't afford to waste this opportunity and I want to see us up there as the best in the world by 2016."
Simon Archer and Joanne Goode took the bronze medal in the mixed doubles at Sydney in 2000 and Nathan Robertson and Emms went one better in Athens four years later when they claimed the silver and gave the sport a huge lift with their charismatic partnership.