ICF Public Relations/Media:
Raymond W. Kamber
Hauptstrasse 40
CH-4143 Dornach
Switzerland
Phone:
++41-61-701 99 29
Fax:
++41-61-701 99 17
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ICF CONGRESS WARSAW 2000 (24-25 November)
Treating new paths to a more professional management: now
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The discussion of the sport technical rules of the ICF during
the two-day convention of the national canoe federation delegates
made it very clear: Despite of didactical innovations with modern
media the convention was completely overstrained to come to
sensible and functional solutions in the changing of the rules. The
consequence was that all the rules and regulations for the
canoe/kayak slalom couldn't be treated and had to be sent back
respectively given to the board of directors for further editing
and decision making. The board now has to discuss it during a
special two-day session mid January 2001 in Madrid.
It is evidently that only when new paths are treated, that only
when the board of directors henceforth will be in charge of
discussing technical regulation changes with the respective expert
committee and having final say on them, that our federation, the
ICF will continue on being a modern sport organisation. Even if
some national federations have problems letting go of the nowadays
a bit antique conceptions. Conceptions that were "thrown over
board" a long time ago in other international sport federations.
An international sport federation, thus also the ICF, has mainly
to be able to deal with sport political topics, elections and
thorough preparations for the awarding of world championships in
all recognized disciplines. It has to deal with planning, that
looks ahead for an appropriate amount of time, it has to discuss
necessities in organisation as well as necessities concerning the
contract between the EBU and the ICF that was signed in Sydney
during the Olympic Games with candidates for world title
competitions before the decision of awarding the competition.
Elections. Suspense-packed elections took part concerning the
board of directors. Details are to be taken from the list printed
on the bottom.
Additional discipline at Canoe-Kayak-Sprint Worldchampionships.
Quite unexplainable for us (the Media Officer) is that during this
convention a new discipline at world championships for women in
canoe/kayak sprint was "forced" through: Women's K4 1000m. For
years now we have been "smiled" upon in the media field for having
a lot of disciplines over several distances. And also because
hardly any journalist or the sports community has ever really heard
of our world champions. The more disciplines and world champions we
produce inhibits the possibility to present "heroes" of our sport
to the public. But it will also lead to the fact that TV will only
broadcast certain, i.e. the spectacular races of our sport.
New National Federations. After the admittance of 6 new national
federations (Armenian National Federation of Canoe, Dominican Canoe
Federation, Nepal Rafting and Canoeing Federation, Federacion
Paraguaya de Canotaje, Uganda Canoeing/Kayak Federation, Vietnam
Rowing and Canoeing Federation) the ICF-family has grown to 111
member-federations.
Dragonboat. After difficult negotiations with the international
dragonboat federation, which was interested in a going-together
with the one and only accepted Federation for paddle sport by the
IOC, GAIFS and ASOIF, the ICF, president Feldhoff declared the
negotiations as failed. Since a lot of dragonboat clubs are already
members in federations of the ICF and the ICF last year declared
dragonboating an official sport of the ICF it was decided that a
standing committee for dragonboat( temporarily 3 members, the
chairman having a seat in the board) be established by the ICF
board until the next convention. This should enable the carrying
out of ICF dragonboat world championships every two years. The
first world championships are to take place in 2002.
E L E C T I O N S
ICF Board of Candidates: Elected:
Directors
1st Vice-President Etele Baráth (HUN)
(Period 2000-2004) Józef Bejnarowicz (POL)
Albert Woods (GBR)
Marcel Venot (FRA) Marcel Venot (new)
3rd Vice-President Józef Bejnarowicz (POL)
(new) Helen Brownlee (AUS)
(Period 2000-2004) Ali Ghalamsiya (IRI) Ali Ghalamsiya (new)
Treasurer Hans-Ulrich Clerici (SUI)
(Period 2000-2004) Francesco Conforti (ITA) Francesco Conforti (new)
André Vandeput (BEL), so far
Continental Representatives
Europe: Jan Bache-Wiig (NOR)
(Period 2000-2002) Ivan Klementjec (LAT) Ivan Klementjev (new)
Per Lindberg (SWE)
(Period 2000-2004) Halina Pikula (POL) Halina Pikula (so far)
Asia: Anthony Chang (HKG) Anthony Chang (new)
(Period 2000-2004)
Oceania: Helen Brownlee (AUS) Helen Brownlee (so far)
(Period 2000-2004)
Africa: Roelof van Riet (RSA) Roelof van Riet (so far)
(Period 2000-2004)
Auditor Walter Aumayr (AUT)
(Period 2000-2004) Manfred Modli (AUT) Manfred Modli (so far)
Chairmen of the Committees
Canoe-Kayak Sprint John Leukemans (BEL) John Leukemans (so far)
(Flatwater) Miroslav Haviar (SVK)
(Period 2000-2004)
Slalom: Ramón Ganyet I Sole (ESP)
(Period 2000-2004) Peter Horster (GER) Peter Horster (new)
Jaroslav Pollert (CZE), so far
Wildwater: Vittorio Cirini (ITA) Vittorio Cirini (so far)
(Period 2000-2004)
Marathon: Jorn Cronberg (DEN) Jorn Cronberg (so far)
(Period 2000-2004)
Canoe Sailing: Ben Fuller (USA) Ben Fuller (new)
(Period 2000-2004)
Nominations by the Board of Directors
Committee Members:
Canoe-Kayak Sprint (Flatwater): Frank Garner (CAN), so far
(Period 2000-2004) Dr. Jens Kahl, (GER), new
Toshihiko Kanda (JAP), new
Elly Müller (NED), so far
István Vaskuti (HUN), new
Slalom Racing: André Luiz Behs (BRA), new
(Period 2000-2004) John Felton (USA), new
Wilfrid Forgues (FRA), new
Zbigniew Kudlik (POL), new
Bojan Zmavc (SLO), new
PR / Media: Markus Flechtner (GER), new
(Period 2000-2002) Jesus R. Inclan (ESP), so far
Theo de Koninck (BEL), so far
Patrick Monier (FRA), new
Dominique Curchod, TV Adviser ICF, new
Medical: Bo Berglund (SWE), so far
(Period 2000-2002) Mauricio Cramer (BRA), new
Mike Irani (GBR), so far
Mike Pierce (GBR), new
Marathon Racing: Robin Belcher (AUS), so far
(Period 2000-2004) Tim Cornish (RSA), so far
Ruud Heijselaar (NED), so far
Alan Laws (GBR), so far
Canoe Polo: Jon Bisset (AUS), so far
(Period 2000-2002) Chak Sum Lam (HKG), new
Dominique Le Bellour (FRA), so far
Carmel Vekings (IRL), so far
Wildwater Racing: David Mason (USA), so far
(Period 2000-2002) Jens Perlwitz (GER), so far
Mike Tordoff (GBR), so far
François Beauchard (FRA), so far
Canoe Sailing: Ola Barthelson (SWE), new
(Period 2000-2004) Alan Powell (GBR), new
Awards
new ICF Honorary-Members: Otto Bonn (HUN)
Yoshio Sakurauchi (JAP)
Caslav Veljic (YUG)
Badge of Merit: Filip Curkovic (CRO)
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INTERNATIONAL CANOE FEDERATION (ICF) PUBLIC PR / MEDIA COMMITTEE
2 0 0 1 - C A L E N D A R O F M A J O R E V E N T S
April 13-15 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Cup 1 Gainsville (USA)
May 11-13 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Cup 2 Sevilla (ESP)
May 26-27 Canoe/Kayak Slalom World Cup 1 Goumois (SUI / FRA)
June 06-07 Marathon Racing World Cup 1 ... (DEN)
May/June 31-03 Wildwater Racing Preworlds Valsesia (ITA)
May/June 31-03 Wildwater Racing European Valsesia (ITA)
Championships
June 02-03 Canoe/Kayak Slalom World Cup 2 Merano (ITA)
June 06-07 Marathon Racing World Cup 1 ... (DEN)
June 09-10 Canoe/Kayak Slalom Wold Cup 3 Tacen (SLO)
June 15-17 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Cup 3 Mantes la Jolie (FRA)
June/July 29-01 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Cup 4 Copenhagen (DEN)
July 13-15 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Cup 5 Zagreb (CRO)
July 14-15 Marathon Racing World Cup 2 Zamora (ESP)
August 04-05 Canoe/Kayak Slalom World Cup 4 Troja (CZE)
August 04-05 Marathon Racing European Györ (HUN)
Championships for Seniors and
Juniors
August 11-12 Canoe/Kayak Slalom World Cup 5 Augsburg (GER)
August 22-26 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Poznan (POL)
Championships for Seniors
September 01-02 Marathon Racing World Stocktown-on-Tees (GBR)
Championships and World Cup
for Juniors
September 07-09 Canoe/Kayak Sprint World Curitiba(BRA)
Championships for Juniors
September 08-09 Canoe/Kayak Slalom World Cup 6 Waussau (USA)
September 20-23 Slalom World Championships for Ocoee River (USA)
Seniors
.... Marathon Racing European Dinant (BEL)
Championships for Seniors and
Juniors
December 2000 / RK
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December 1st, 2000 / INTERNATIONAL CANOE FEDERATION, Raymond W. Kamber
PR & Media Director, Hauptrasse 40, CH-4143 Dornach/Switzerland,
Tel. +41-61/701 99 19, Fax +41-61/701 99 17, Natel +41-79/334 19 73
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