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MEDIA PACK 20 - 25 February | Melbourne2020.Org IGLA CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDIA PACK 20 - 25 February | melbourne2020.org Summer Together Down Under Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Our Summary 6 10 661 16 4 Sports Social Registrants Countries Ambassadors Events Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships What’s Happening? Melbourne2020 Inc. is a not for profit organisation founded for the sole purpose of hosting the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia in 2020. A team of Melbourne based swimmers and waterpolo players pitched to host the IGLA championships during the Paris Gay Games in 2018 and won. The host clubs for this event are The Glamourhead Sharks Swimming Club and Melbourne Surge Water Polo Club, two of Melbourne’s LGBT+ sporting clubs encouraging diversity, fitness, competition and fun. This is a championship for all; we celebrate: Diversity All Ages (18-90) All Abilities Community Health Fun After months of planning, the Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships will commence on 20 February, 2020 and conclude on 25 February, 2020. The championship will be held at Melbourne’s premier aquatics sporting facility – the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC), which has been home to many international aquatics and sporting events. Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships IGLA Championship History The IGLA Championships have been held every year since 1987 in various cities in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the first time that the IGLA Championships have been held in Australia as a standalone event. See below for a view of the IGLA location history. Every four years, IGLA is held as a subset of the Gay Games. IGLA Championships Gay Games + IGLA 1987 1988 1989 1990 San Diego, California San Diego, California Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia 1991 1992 1993 1994 Los Angeles, California Seattle, Washington Chicago, Illinois New York, New York 1995 1996 1997 1998 Montreal, Québec Washington, D.C. San Diego, California Amsterdam, Netherlands 1999 2000 2001 2002 Atlanta, Georgia Paris, France Toronto, Ontario Sydney, Australia 2003 2004 2005 2006 San Francisco, California Fort Lauderdale, Florida Atlanta, Georgia Chicago, Illinois 2007 2008 2009 2010 Paris, France Washington, D.C. Copenhagen, Denmark Cologne, Germany 2011 2012 2013 2014 Honolulu, Hawaii Reykjavík, Iceland Seattle, Washington Cleveland, Ohio 2015 2016 2017 2018 Stockholm, Sweden Edmonton, Alberta Miami, Florida Paris, France 2019 2020 2021 New York City Melbourne, Australia Salt Lake City, Utah Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Competition Sports Melbourne2020 will host 6 sports: Swimming, Water Polo, Diving, Artistic Swimming, Open Water Swimming and our beloved Pink Flamingo – an artistic swimming, musical, dancing mixed team sport not to be missed! A breakdown of our registrations is below: Swimming | 406 Water Polo | 249 Open Water | 83 Artistic Swimming | 22 Diving | 5 Pink Flamingo | 12 teams The theme for Pink Flamingo this year is ‘Divas Down Under’ encouraging participants to use local Australian acts in their performances – the show will delight, entertain and educate the audience allthewhile incorporating an element of aquatics involvement. A spectacle not to be missed. Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Our Host Clubs Caleb Hawk President, Melbourne Surge Waterpolo What is your fondest memory of your club? Melbourne Surge Water Polo Club continues to be among the fastest Every year our club marches alongside Sydney in Mardi Gras, but this year took growing water polo clubs in Australia and one of the oldest LGBTI water polo on extra meaning for us as we marched. I was incredibly proud of our club’s in the country. Based in the heart of Melbourne, Surge is proud to offer a comradery and conviction in celebrating our diversity and pride that night. safe and inclusive environment for competitive and social players alike from across our LGBTIQ communities. What are you most looking forward to about Melbourne2020? After having travelled to both Europe and North America for water polo With IGLA 2020 coming to Melbourne, Surge is excited to welcome LGBTIQ competitions, I’m really looking forward having so many players finally come athletes from across the globe as they touch down in Australia in February 2020. down to Australia. What can I say? We’re really keen to host. Since the club’s start in the lead up to the 2002 Gay Games, Surge now enters five Tell us one Melbourne secret you want to share with the world competitive teams in Water Polo Victoria’s State League Championships as well as Usually tourists think you have to travel down to Phillip Island to see fairy recreational and competitive teams in interstate and international competitions. penguins come out of the ocean, but if you head down to the end of the pier With a longstanding dedication to inclusion in sport, Surge’s annual Rookies in St Kilda there’s a small penguin colony there and you can see the penguins program introduces dozens of LGBTIQ community members to water polo every come out of the water just after sunset. year. Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Our Host Clubs Brendan Knox President, Glamourhead Sharks Swimming Established in 2001 by a group of swimmers interested in attending the 2002 Gay What is your fondest memory of your club? There are so many great memories from my international travels with the Games, The Glamourhead Sharks have since grown into one of Melbourne’s Glams, I couldn't choose just one. But the friendships I’ve built and the largest masters swimming clubs. Competing at local, national and international experiences I’ve had overseas while with the Glams have been unforgettable. events we aim to provide an environment for LGBTI swimmers and their friends to participate in competitive and fitness swimming. We are extremely pleased to be What are you most looking forward to about Melbourne2020? supporting Melbourne2020 and being the host club for the swimming component February in Melbourne really is the best time to welcome international of Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships and look forward to welcoming all our visitors. I’m looking forward to sharing those long hot summer days that last visitors to Melbourne. well into the evening. Our Aims Are: • To provide an encouraging and supportive environment for swimmers of all Tell us one Melbourne secret you want to share with the world abilities to improve their fitness and swimming skills, have fun and develop The Yarra River is the place to be at sunset. Specifically, one of the riverside friendships. bars like Arbory or Ponyfish Island which is actually in the middle of the river! • To present a positive image of the GLBTIQ community through attendance in local, interstate and international Masters swimming meets. • To support swimmers in competing to their full potential in Masters and open water swimming competition. Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Our Ambassadors - Swimming (AU) Bio: Daniel Kowalski OAM is a dual Olympian (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000) with a swathe of Olympic, Commonwealth, Pan Pacific and World Championship medals to his name. Kowalski was part of the gold medal winning 4 X 200m relay team at the Sydney Olympics, an event that he and his teammates set a world record for two years earlier at the Commonwealth Games. Known widely for his abilities in the 200, 400, 800 and 1500m freestyle, at the 1996 Olympics Kowalski was the first man in 92 years to win medals across each of the 200, 400 and 1500m freestyle events. Kowalski is currently the Olympian Services Manager at the Australian Olympic Committee and most recently competed with the Sydney Wett Ones at IGLA2019 in New York. Dan Kowalski What it means being an IGLA Ambassador: “IGLA provides an event where members of our community can take part in something they enjoy in a safe and inclusive environment. IGLA also serves as an opportunity to continue to educate the wider community and assist in breaking down barriers when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community.” -Daniel Kowalski Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Our Ambassadors - Swimming (US) Bio Tom Luchsinger is the 2013 USA Swimming National Champion in the 200M Butterfly. He attended the 2013 FINA World Championships finishing 5th in the event. He graduated from The University of North Carolina with a degree in Exercise & Sport Science. While at North Carolina, Tom was a 10 time All American, 12 time Atlantic Coast Conference medallist, and a five time Atlantic Coast Conference Champion. Tom was one of the first openly gay USA Swimming National Team members, coming out while competing in 2014 following a challenging first year as a professional athlete. Tom is the current Team Manager for Team New York Aquatics (TNYA) in New York City. He works in fundraising for Columbia University, and teaches swim clinics in addition to his responsibilities with TNYA. What it means being an IGLA Ambassador Tom Luchsinger “Growing up, there were two words that in my mind had always conflicted; athlete and gay. As a closeted high acheiving athlete, it was as if these two descriptions were constantly in conflict—I could not be both. By hosting, competing and supporting meets like IGLA, we are challenging these stereotypes and hopefully making sports a more inclusive environment” - Tom Luchsinger Melbourne2020 IGLA Championships Our Ambassadors – Water Polo (AU) Bio Emily Scott is a 27 year old queer women from Sydney who graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Science and now works as a management consultant. She is also the CEO of Out for Australia, a volunteer not-for-profit that supports and mentors aspiring LGBTIQ professionals. Emily played seven seasons in the Australian water polo national league (including a silver medal in 2015), one season for the University of Hawaii and represented Australia at the under-18 and under-20 World Championships. Emily was instrumental in setting up the women’s program at the Sydney Stingers water polo club in 2018 and was proud to play with the Stingers in the competitive division at the 2018 World Gay Games in Paris.
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