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WORLD IN COOPERATION WITH THE IAAF

W M A San Sebastian, Spain 2005

W M A San Sebastian, Spain 2005

General Assembly Assemblée Générale

30 August/30 août 2005

CONTENTS / SOMMAIRE Page

General Introduction

Affiliates and Voting Rights

WMA General Assembly

Agenda

Reports to General Assembly

Elections – presentation of candidates

Recommendations about amendments to the WMA Constitution/By- Laws/Rules of Competition from the WMA Council

Proposals from WMA Affiliates

Introduction Générale

Affiliés et nombre de votes

Assemblée Générale de la WMA

Ordre de jour

Rapports soumis à l'Assemblée Générale - 2 -

Élections – présentation des candidates

Recommandations pour modifier les Statuts/les Règlements/les Règlements des Compétitions de la WMA proposées par le Comité Directeur de la WMA

Propositions faites par les Affiliés de la WMA

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

The WMA Council hereby submits its report for the period July 2003 – June 2005 covering the time span between the XVth Stadia Championships in Carolina, PUR, and the XVIth Stadia Championships in San Sebastian, ESP.

WMA Council

During the period the Council has consisted of the following Officers: President: Torsten Carlius, SWE Executive Vice President: Thomas C. Jordan, USA Vice President, Stadia: Rex Harvey, USA Vice President Non-Stadia: Ron Bell, GBR Secretary: Monty Hacker, RSA Treasurer: Giuseppe Galfetti, SUI Women’s Representative: Marina Hoernecke-Gil, ESP IAAF Representative: César Moreno Bravo, MEX Regional Delegates: Africa: Hannes Booysen, RSA Asia: Hari Chandra, SIN Europe: Dieter Massin, GER North and Central America & the Caribbean: Brian Oxley, CAN (up to August 2004) Brian Keaveney, CAN (from August 2004) Oceania: Stan Perkins, AUS South America: José Figueras, URU

WMA Committees

During the period WMA has had the following Committees: Stadia Committee Chairman: Rex Harvey, USA Non-Stadia Committee Chairman: Ron Bell, GBR Doping and Medical Committee Chairman: Stan Perkins, AUS Law and Legislation Committee Chairman: Monty Hacker, RSA Records Committee Chairman: Brian Oxley, CAN (up to August 2004) Brian Keavenay, CAN (from August 2004) Organisational Advisory Committee Chairman: Thomas C. Jordan, USA Women’s Committee Chairman: Marina Hoernecke-Gil, ESP - 3 -

WMA Meetings

During the period the following meetings have been held by the Council and Committees: Council: Carolina, PUR June 28 - 30 and July 12th 2003; San Sebastian, ESP March 16 – 18, 2004 Non-Stadia Committee: Auckland, NZL April 19, 2004

Meetings with other Organizations

During the period WMA has met with the following organizations: IAAF/WMA coordination meeting: Monaco, MON September 15 2003; Monaco, MON September 19 2004 Meeting with IAU/EVAA on future 100K cooperation, Faenza, ITA May 28, 2004 Meeting with IAU and WMRA on future cooperation on 100K and mountain running London, GBR June 16, 2005

Representation

During the period the following Council Members have served in other organizations: IAAF Masters’ Committee: Torsten Carlius, SWE Marina Hoernecke-Gil, ESP Dieter Massin, GER IAAF Arbitration Panel: Monty Hacker, RSA Court of Arbitration for Sport: Monty Hacker, RSA IMGA Board of Governors: Torsten Carlius, SWE

Championships

During the period the following World and Regional Championships have been organized:

World Championships Championships Stadia: Carolina, PUR July 1-13, 2003 Championships 100K: Tainan, TPE November 16, 2003 Championships Non-Stadia: Manukau/Auckland, NZL April 18-24, 2004 Championships Indoors: Sindelfingen, GER March 10–14, 2004

Regional Championships Africa: Yaoundé, CMR July29–August 1, 2004 Asia: Bangkok, THA December 1-5, 2004 Europe: Stadia: Ârhus/Randers, DEN July 22–August 1, 2004 Non-Stadia: Upice, CZE May 24-25, 2003 - 4 -

Indoors: San Sebastian, ESP March 6-9, 2003 North and Central America & the Caribbean: Dorado, PUR August 25-29, 2004 Oceania: Rarotonga,COK October 21-27, 2004 South America: Montevideo, URU November 6-13, 2004

WMA Affiliates and number of votes at the General Assembly in SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN 2005.

WMA Affiliés et nombre de votes pour l'Assemblée Générale à SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN 2005.

Votes Africa/l'Afrique Algeria 1 Myanmar 1 Angola 1 Nepal 1 Botswana 1 Pakistan 1 Cameroon 1 Peoples Republic Cape Verde 1 of China 1 Central African Republic 1 Phillipines 1 Chad 1 Singapore 1 Congo 1 Sri Lanka 1 Democratic Republic of Congo 1 Tajikistan 1 Djibouti 1 Thailand 1 Egypt 1 Turkmenistan 1 Ethiopia 1 United Arab Emirates 1 Gambia 1 Guinea Equatorial 1 Guinea Rep. Of 1 Europe/L'Europe Ivory Coast 1 Albania 1 Kenya 1 Armenia 1 Lesotho 1 Austria 2 Mauretania 1 Azerbaijan 1 Mauritius 1 Belarus 1 Morocco 1 Belgium 2 Mocambique 1 Bulgaria 1 Namibia 1 Croatia 1 Reunion Island 1 Cyprus 1 Rwanda 1 Czech Republic 2 Senegal 1 Denmark 1 Seychelles 1 Estonia 1 South Africa 3 3 Togo 1 3 Tunisia 1 Germany 5 Zambia 1 Gibraltar 1 Zimbabwe 1 Great Britain 5 Sudan 1 Greece 1 Benin 1 Hungary 2 Asia/l’Asie Iceland 1 Brunei 1 Ireland 3 Chinese Tapei 1 Israel 1 Hong Kong 1 3 India 3 Latvia 1 Indonesia 1 Lithuania 1 Iran 1 Malta 1 Japan 3 Moldova 1 Kazakhstan 1 Netherlands 2 - 5 -

Korea 1 Norway 2 Lebanon 1 Poland 2 Malaysia 1 Portugal 2 Romania 1 Russia 2 San Marino 1 Serbia 1 Slovak Rep. 1

Votes Votes

Slovenia 1 Oceania/l'Océanie Spain 2 American Samoa 1 3 Australia 5 2 Cook Islands 1 Turkey 1 Fiji 1 Ukraine 1 Guam 1 Luxembourg 1 Kiribati 1 Nauru 1 New Zealand 4 Norfolk Island 1 North and Central America Northern Mariana & the Caribbean Islands 1 L'Amérique du Nord et Papua New Guinea 1 Centrale & Caraibes Tonga 1 Antigua 1 Barbados 1 Belize 1 South America/L'Amérique Bermuda 1 du Sud Canada 4 Argentina 2 Costa Rica 1 Aruba 1 Cuba 1 Bolivia 1 Dominican Republic 1 Brazil 2 El Salvador 1 Chile 2 Guatemala 1 Colombia 2 Honduras 1 Ecuador 1 Jamaica 1 Guyana 1 Mexico 3 Panama 1 Nicaragua 1 Paraguay 1 Netherlands Antilles 1 Peru 1 Puerto Rico 4 Surinam 1 St Vincent 1 Uruguay 1 Trinidad & Tobago 1 Venezuela 1 United States of America 5 US Virgin Islands 1

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Agenda for the WMA General Assembly

August 30, 2005 at PARQUE TECNOLÓGICO MIRAMÓN, SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN, at 9.00 a m

1. Opening of the General Assembly

2. Certification of the proper calling of the General Assembly

3. Election of 2 scrutineers for the minutes

4. Election of 2 persons to count the minutes

5. Bid presentations for future WMA World Championships - 2008 World Masters Championships Indoors Clermont-Ferrand, FRA

- 2009 World Masters Championships Stadia Lahti, FIN Århus, DEN

6. Submission and approval of reports from the: - President - Executive Vice President - Vice President Stadia - Vice President Non-Stadia - Secretary - Treasurer - Women’s Representative

7. Submission and approval of the auditor’s report

8. Submission of report on

9. Elections: - President Cesare Beccalli, ITA Stan Perkins, AUS - Executive Vice President Ron Bell, GBR Monty Hacker, RSA Vadim Marshev, RUS Winston Thomas, GBR

- Vice President Stadia Jean-Pierre Clamarant-Danzelle, FRA Rex Harvey, USA - Vice President Non-Stadia Khoo Chong Beng, MAS - 7 -

- Secretary Torsten Carlius, SWE Brian Oxley, CAN - Treasurer Friedel Schunk, GER - Women’s Representative Marina Hoernecke-GIL, ESP

10. Amendments to the WMA Constitution/Bye-Laws/Rules of Competition

11. Closing of the General Assembly

REPORT: PRESIDENT TORSTEN CARLIUS

This report, being my last as WMA President, covers what has happened during the last two years since Carolina, PUR, in 2003 but is partly also in retrospect of the eight years I have had the privilege and great pleasure to be the WMA President. These years have seen great development in our masters movement and WMA is to-day quite another organisation with a well-respected position in the international sports world that, however, must always be defended and strengthened. Life is never static and standing still means losing ground.

The last two years have been mixed with considerable success but have also had some dis- appointments. The positive activities are of course introduction of the World Masters Championships Indoors, the 100K and the strong apprecia-tion of our work by IAAF. On the negative side we have the low participation at our World Masters Championships Stadia in Carolina, PUR, in 2003 and the great disappointment at our World Masters Championships Non-Stadia in New Zealand in 2004. During this period WMA has also taken a strong position within the International Masters Games Association (IMGA) and was one of the biggest sports, if not the biggest, at the World Masters Games in Edmonton, CAN, this year.

WMA World Masters Championships Stadia 2003 Our XVth WMA Championships Stadia in Carolina, PUR, on July 1-13, 2003, was a great success as very well organised Cham-pionships but a great disappointment as regards the low participation. These Championships were originally awarded to Kuala Lumpur, MAS, but later trans- ferred to Carolina. With a very short preparation period the Carolina LOC pro- duced an impressive result. I can only express our warmest THANK YOU to all who made these Championships possible with William Alemán as Chairman at the head of the LOC. The atmosphere was excellent and we enjoyed a wonderful time in Carolina.

The low attendance was due to high costs in Carolina but also to the US immi- gration procedures. We had expected around 4.000 athletes but only 2.700 athletes entered these Championships. Apart from the disappointment this also meant a financial loss both to the LOC and to WMA but the wonderful manner and atmosphere in which these Championships were organised compensated - 8 -

well for the financial loss.

WMA World Masters Championships 100K 2003 The 1st WMA World Masters Championships 100K were awarded to the City of Tainan, TPE, and organised by IAU in connection with their World Cup on No- vember 16, 2003. About 200 athletes entered the race of whom 160 were masters. 100K is a very hard event and you can only admire the performances by the athletes. To WMA it was a new experience but it is evident that there is a demand for this challenging event. The cooperation with IAU is good and will be further developed over future years.

WMA World Masters Championships Indoors 2004 The German City of Sindelfingen hosted the Inaugural World Masters Athle- tics Championships Indoors on March 10-14, 2004. Our General Assembly in Carolina, PUR, in 2003 decided to add the Indoor Championships to our pro- gramme and awarded the Inaugural Championships to Sindelfingen in competi- tion with New York, USA.

The days in Sindelfingen were just great with a wonderful organisation and atmosphere in the Sindelfingen “Glaspalast”. The LOC had a short half-year to prepare everything but did it excellently. 2.700 athletes from 57 countries entered these Championships which also included our first Winter Throwing Challenge as well as a Cross Country and Road Race Walk. The enthusiastic feelings of the athletes showed that these Championships will be a great success in the future and at a Special General Assembly in Sindelfingen the City of Linz, AUT, was awarded the next World Masters Indoors in 2006. I know that we are many who look forward to these next World Masters Indoors in the wonderful arena “Intersport Arena Linz” with very great expectations. The LOC chaired by Percy Hirsch and with the full support of the City Council will no doubt offer a Championships on a high level.

WMA World Masters Championships Non-Stadia 2004 If our Inaugural World Masters Championships Indoors were a great success so our VIIth World Masters Championships Non-Stadia in Manukau/Auckland, NZL, on April 18-24, 2004, were a great disappointment as regards the number of athletes. Only 448 athletes from 27 countries, of whom196 athletes from New Zealand, entered these Championships that were planned for a great success. The LOC had strongly promoted the event at many masters Cham-pionships but for some reason or other athletes chose to stay away. The WMA Council has drawn the conclusion that the Non-Stadia Championships tend to become “local World Championships” and will so present a proposal to the San Sebastian General Assembly to remove the World Masters Championships Non-Stadia from the world programme and to allocate the Non-Stadia events to our Stadia and Indoor Championships. Vancouver, CAN, was awarded the 2006 World Masters Championships Non-Stadia but withdrew when the weak interest for the Championships was evident.

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IAAF but last year relations reached a much higher level. For the first time we had the honour and pleasure to see the IAAF President, the IAAF Secretary and many IAAF high-placed Council Members at one of our World Masters Cham-pionships – this time the World Masters Indoors in Sindelfingen. I got the feeling that the IAAF people for the first time really understood the good work WMA does and the high performance level by our athletes. It was a real plea-sure to guide our guests in Sindelfingen and we received clear confirmation of their apprecia-tion when IAAF decided to invite the best male and female masters athletes to its Grand Prix and Gala in Monaco in September. We were very proud of this invita-tion and the Council immediately selected Guido Müller, GER, and Jeanette Flynn, AUS, as our best master athletes for 2004.

Another sign of our good relations is the approval by IAAF to include 10-12 masters events at their World Championships in Helsinki in August, 2005. Our Finnish Masters Association has taken the initiative and opportunity to invite masters athletes to the 1st Masters Athletics Grand Prix in Lahti on August 10-12 and has won the possibility to move 10-12 finals to the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki on August 13.

WMA and EVAA are just now negotiating with EAA to have a similar activity at the European Championships the next year in Gothenburg, SWE, and so far it seems that this will be realised. Our masters movement is developing extremely well and we belong to the Athletics Family.

Finally the IAAF Council has decided to support our WMA General Assembly decision in Carolina, PUR, in 2003 to make the age-group M35-39 an official masters age-group. IAAF will forward a proposal to its Congress in Helsinki this year that so be decided and we take for granted that the proposal will be app- roved so that both men and women become masters from 35 years of age which means that M35-39 will be an official age-group in San Sebastian.

World Masters Games The World Masters Games in Melbourne, AUS, in 2002 was a great success for athletics as we were the largest of the participating sports. Our strong position in this area was further underlined when I was elected on the IMGA (Interna-tional Masters Games Association) Board of Governors which means that WMA and athletics has now a voice and influence within IMGA and the Masters Games activities.

WMA has acted strongly to develop the World Masters Games and at the Games this year in Edmonton, CAN, athletics was the biggest sport again. Brian Keaveney, CAN, was our Technical Delegate and we thank him sincerely for a very good job.

The next World Masters Games will be held in 2009 and at the IMGA Board meeting in Edmonton, CAN, in 2004 Sydney, AUS, was awarded these Games in tough competition with Copenhagen, DEN, and the Shiga Prefecture, JPN. The decisive factor for Sydney was their Olympic arenas that will be used for the Games.

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IMGA is now growing fast and in some years we will have both Winter World Masters Games and Regional Masters Games of which Europe hopefully will be the first region. An European Masters Sports Association (EMSA) is founded with strong plans to organise the 1st European Masters Games in 2008. WMA has also taken some strong initiatives for the future and has proposed that IMGA shall share its profits from World Masters Games with the sports participating in the Games. We have also proposed that the World Masters Games return to even-numbered years, i.e. 2012, 2016 and so on. However, the IMGA Annual Meeting this year in Berlin decided to make a study how to develop the IMGA structure now that Winter Games will be added and Regions will start to organise Regional Games. Our two proposals were discussed shortly but then handed over to the study that will evaluate IMGA’s future structure.

Regions The work in our six Regions has also this period been very successful and looking back on the last years there has been a very strong development. We had in 2004 again Regional Championships Stadia in all Regions. Europe is as before the strongest with 3.700 athletes at its Stadia Championships in Århus/ Randers, DEN, and organises moreover also Regional Championships Indoors and Non-Stadia every odd-numbered year.

Our Regions are also coming of age and this period both Europe and South America celebrated their 25 years jubilee, Europe in Riccione in October, 2003, with attendance by the EAA President Hansjörg Wirz, SUI, and South America in connection with their Regional Championships in Montevideo, URU, in November, 2004, where Mr. Eduardo Bernal, Senior Vice President, represented CONSUDATLE, the IAAF Regional Federation.

The Region with our biggest problems is as before Africa but Africa Masters Athletics with Hannes Booysen as President makes a tireless but unfortunately often unrewarding efforts to develop masters athletics over this vast Region. One small successful step in this direction was that in 2004 the Africa Regional Championships were for the first time not organised in the southern part of Africa but in Cameroon in the middle of the Region. However, better contacts must be created with more Affiliates and perhaps one way could be to try to organise Championships in smaller regions within the vast African continent.

Development programme No special development programme like the one in Tonga, Oceania, last period has been set up. Oceania is considering where a project could be started and WMA is prepared to support a new project in Oceania but also in other Regions where conditions are the right.

As usual WMA has supported a seminar at the Regional Championships in South America. This is now a tradition since six years and has contributed well to understanding and development in South America.

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insurance companies, Universities and of course IAAF. WMA cannot afford to pay for too many projects and must find partners who also are willing to provide financial support.

Drug testing WMA fights strongly against drug abuse and follow the international sports rules laid down by WADA and IAAF. WMA is not yet a member of WADA but hopes to be one already in 2005 as we are willing to respect the anti-drug rules.

New rules have been added the last year how to apply for medical exemptions and WMA follows these rules too. WMA needs a way to take care of applica-tions and our Doping and Medical Committee has appointed Kari Wichmann, FIN, to handle such applications in his capacity as a medical doctor. Ways for- ward have been discussed with IAAF and it has been agreed that WMA will handle all applications for masters who compete in international masters meetings only while IAAF handles all others. Decisions taken by one part will be respected by the other.

EAA Congresses WMA has both in 2003 and 2004 been represented at the European Calendar Congresses (2003 in Rethymno, GRE, and 2004 in Tallinn, EST) together with EVAA to show the world and Europe our programme. Our participation has been very useful and many Delegates have shown a great interest in our acti- vities.

WMA finances As you see from our Treasurer’s report WMA reports a loss for the period 2003- 2004 of USD 48.719:- compared to budget loss of USD 21.500:-. This is of course very serious but is explained by some occasional items. First of all we have changed our reporting system so that all revenues and expenses are reported on the period they occur. Previously we worked with accruals to report Championships at their periods but our new contracts with payments by organi- sers before the Championships makes this order impossible. Consequently all accruals for future Championships (USD 26.500:-) have been charged against 2003-2004.

Other explanations are the low attendance in Manukau/Auckland (loss USD 29.000:-), Council meeting after the World Championships Indoors in Sindel- fingen (increased costs USD 13.000:-) and costs for the 100K Championships in Tainan that were not included in the budget (USD 4.500:-).

WMA future WMA is to-day a strong and widely respected internationalsports association thanks to hard work in Regions and by WMAitself. The future looks bright but as always more work is necessary to keep positions. We are the biggest and strongest masters sports association and as your present Council now must resign I will use the opportunity to thank you all for the years of confidence you have shown in us. We have taken many decisions some of which we know have been controversial. However, I can assure you that we have done so in the best interests of WMA and with reference to the best knowledge at hand. Personally I want also to thank all my Council Members sincerely for a good job these two periods and finally I wish the next Council the best success. If we can assist in any way be sure that we will do - 12 - so with the greatest pleasure.

Torsten Carlius WMA President

REPORT: EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT TOM JORDAN

As I prepare to leave the Council after 8 years as Executive Vice-President, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Masters athletes of the world for giving me this opportunity to serve, and to look ahead to what I believe are the biggest challenges facing WMA. The first is the cost of our Stadia Championships, for both the athletes and the Local Organizers. We--and by this I mean the General Assembly and Council-- must ensure that the promises of low cost housing made by the bidders for our Championships are honored. The Council has taken the important first steps by instituting site surveys of all bidders, but more needs to be done. For the LOC, conducting a first-class Championships on our behalf has become an onerous expense, and we need a collaborative effort between the LOC and Council to arrive at a fair determination of what services are expected of the LOC. The next challenge is the integration of the Non-Stadia events within the Stadia and Indoor Championships, as has been proposed. If the General Assembly approves this move, and I hope it will do so, the LOCs of the Stadia and Indoor Championships will have an even heavier burden to bear. WMA must do whatever it can to assist in making this integration a smooth process. The last challenge I see to the future of WMA is a tendency for some Masters to question the motives of other Masters. In the 8 years I have been on the Council, I have met very few Council Members or General Assembly delegates who have been on "a power trip". There are certainly disagreements--sometimes vocal ones--about what the shape of WMA in the future should be. However, in nearly every case, the reason for the strongly held opinions is that each person wishes only to have the Masters movement develop and prosper. I hope that in the years ahead, all members of WMA can see beyond their differences to reach solutions beneficial to all Masters.