Minutes of the EPF General Assembly 2015
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European Powerlifting Federation Minutes of the EPF General Assembly 2015 “Updated 2015.05.26.” Date: Tuesday 5th May Place: Chemnitz, Germany Start: 19.00 Delegates: Full members Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden Ukraine Total 20 EC members Arnulf Wahlstrom, Alain Hammang, Sandro Rossi, Ralph Farquharson, Jari Rantapelkonen, Myriam Busselot Total 6 (Ralph Farquharson representing Spain) Chairmen (without vote) Myriam Busselot, Maria Pia Moscianese, Sandro Rossi, Ralph Farquharson, Jari Rantapelkonen Non-executive member (without vote) Jiri Hofirek **Total 26 votes ** - The meeting was opened by one minute silence to remember members that have passed away last year including: 1 Eliska Vasek (CZE), Tommy Knudsen (DEN), Viktorya Abdulina (UKR) and Norbert Wallauch (AUT), - Jiri Hofirek (CZE) and Klaus Broström (DEN) were appointed to count the votes. - Ralph Farquharson(ESP) was appointed to write the Minute. AGENDA. 1. Welcome by the President and the Meet director Arnulf Wahlstrøm, Eva Speth 2. Roll call of Nations and Delegates....................... Ralph Farquharson 3. Presidents address................................................ Arnulf Wahlstrøm 4. Minutes of the last General Assembly. 5. The Account with the balance sheet. Treasurers report................................................... Alain Hammang Auditors report...................................................... Pavol Müller and Marina Kail Approval of budget for 2015………………………. Arnulf Wahlstrøm 6. Secretary General report......................................... Ralph Farquharson 7. Vice President report…………………………………. Sandro Rossi 8. Committee Reports: - Technical ............................................................ Myriam Busselot - Law and Legislation ............................................. Jari Rantapelkonen - Disciplinary ......................................................... Pavol Müller - Finance....(see Auditors report)............................. Pavol Müller and Marina Kail - Appeal ………………………………………………. Morten Novum - Women’s …………………………………………….. Maria Pia Moscianese - Championship Secretary …………………………… Jiri Hofirek - Media ………………………………………………… Ralph Farquharson 9. Elections 10. Proposals 11. New member Applicants 12. Action on Delinquent Nations 13. Hall of Fame 14. Bids and confirmation on Future Championships 15. Any other Business 16. Adjournment ...............................................................................................................………………. - Technical meeting with team nominations and technical details after the General Assembly. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3) President’s report. Welcome. On behalf of EPF I wish delegates and guests welcome to the 2015 European General Assembly. 2 I want to thank the organiser, by the meet director Eva Speth, for inviting us to Chemnitz and I am looking forward to a pleasant stay and a well organised championship. European Championships 2014. A lot of hard work and good planning created European championships of good technical and social standard in 2014. Statistics show that all together 774 (*910) lifters took part in European championships in year 2014. It is a high standard on European lifters and Anastasiya Derevyanko from Ukraine and Carl Yngvar Christensen from Norway were awarded European lifters 2014. Congratulation! European championships 2014 were organised in: Sofia, Bulgaria .. (Open) 74 (*90) Men and 44 (*58) Women St. Petersburg, Russia. (Juniors) 71(*131) Men and 46 (*55) Women Pilsen, Czech. Rep. (Masters) 152 (*139) Men and 43(*45) Women Pilsen, Czech. Rep.. (Benchpress Open) 76 (*82) Men and 42(*39) Women Hamm, Luxembourg . (Benchpress Masters) 119 (*124) Men and 46 (*49) Women Torino, Italy (WEC) 38 (*45) Men and 23 (*16) Women * = numbers in 2013. Antidoping. In year 2014, EPF made 80 (69 in 2013) doping tests at European championships. This means that about 10% of all lifters were tested. 3 lifter tested positive - one is suspended for 12 months and 2 are suspended for 2 years. It is a discouraging result to have 3 positive lifters in one year – it is far too much! WADA as well as IOC require IPF to make more OC (out of competition) testing compared to IC testing and also increase the number of blood tests. IPF requires that about 5% of the participants in Regional and World championships are tested in competition and the remaining antidoping money should finance the OCT program. Due to low number of IC testing’s, EPF has transferred 12.500 Euro to IPF for OC testing in 2014 and expect to transfer 15.000 Euro for OC testing in 2015 to IPF. IPF carried out 60 OCTs in 2014. The high cost limits the number of tests. We all know how important the anti-doping work is for the sport of powerlifting to be accepted by IOC and also worldwide as a sport with integrity. The institution of new classic championships attracts new lifters and it is extremely important that each national federation make the same Antidoping control and information to these lifters as they do for the equipped lifters. In IPF, a high number of positives are from the World Classic championships and more or less destroy the decreasing statistics of positive lifters within the IPF umbrella we had previous to instituting the Classic lifting. I will highly encourage all member federations to focus on this important matter. Classic lifting is growing in popularity but treat to destroy the IPF’s work to gain IOC recognition. Each member federation has an important job to do to teach their members to follow the WADA code. High standard of European lifters. I like to express my congratulation to all European medallists at World championships. European lifters won 29 out of 45 medals in total at the Open equipped Worlds and 61 out of 98 medals in total at the Junior Worlds. In addition, European Master lifters and European Bench pressers in all age categories won a high number of World medals last year. EPF is one Region of total 6 IPF Regions and this high level is a result of hard work by the athletes but also a big credit to European coaches and training systems as well as the leadership in national clubs and federations. You should all be very proud of this success! New visions and strategic planning. Classic. At the GA 2014, it was decided to start Classic Europeans for Open, juniors and Sub Juniors. This is a new championship from 2015 and the interest to take part is overwhelming. Powerlifting has got “another leg” and more lifters will find inspiration to train and to compete. 3 A higher activity with more lifters will generate a win-win situation for all involved in powerlifting from the local club and up to EPF as the umbrella organisation - and also for the sponsors. Next step is to introduce European Classic championships also for Masters and for Bench Press. Streaming. Another important decision was made at the GA 2014. This was to institute rules that generate economy to start high quality streaming from 2 of our major European championships yearly. The EC has after some evaluation, signed a contract with Viva TV from Spain to conduct the recording and the streaming. This is an experienced company with numerous TV productions. A huge workload has been done from the Viva TV in cooperation with SG Ralph Farquharson to prepare the streaming at the European Juniors and the European Open. Sponsorship. The EC has worked hard to get more sponsors into European powerlifting. This has been successful as agreements are achieved with Eleiko AB, SBD Apparel, ER Equipment and Leoko Oy. This gives some economic support to EPF as organisation but also free equipment and clothing to organizers of European championships. Sponsors are very important for all sports and the EC will continue the work to establish good conditions to attract sponsors. We see a large potential of sponsoring in connection with the high quality streaming. La Manga Strength Centre. The centre is up and running and the IPF coach seminars are organized regularly. In connection with the centre, the University in Murcia has established a test laboratory to test athletes regarding strength, technique etc. A special test program for powerlifters will be worked out in the near future. In combination with strength training, the La Manga Club offers a wide range of facilities attractive for family holidays. Certified Coaches. IPF in cooperation with EPF has worked out a document of rules and recommendations for IPF/EPF Coaches. All national coaches active at international level must adapt these rules by signing this document during the weighing in of the lifters. The benefit by following these rules is great for all parties – both the coaches, lifters and the organizers. A good system in the warm up area benefits greatly the work condition for the coaches and makes it more easy for the lifters to concentrate about the preparations. Thanks to the EPF Officials. The administration and daily work to run EPF is increasing from year to year. EPF is in need of an employed Secretary to assist with all the paper work. For the moment the economy does not allow such employment, so the EPF officials are doing a great voluntary work to keep up everything. Some officials have more or less a full time work with EPF matters. No federation or company is better than the people doing the work and I am proud to state that EPF has dedicated and hardworking officials that cooperate