EUROPEAN WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION Affiliated to: INTERNATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION President General Secretary ANTONIO URSO (ITA) HASAN AKKUS (TUR) Address: Suleyman Sirri Sok. No:3 Kat:8/805 06140 Kızılay-Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 433 01 84 Fax: +90 312 433 01 85 Iban SM55 V032 6209 8000 00000 306184 Code swift: ASTTSMSMXXX (ASSET BANCA S.P.A della Repubblica di San Marino) Covering bank: KREDBEBBXXX (KBC-BANK BRUSSELS) MINUTES of the EWF CONGRESS 04 April 2014 09:00 am – Tel Aviv-ISR Venue: Marina Hotel in Tel Aviv 1. Delegate Power Control P Alaverdyan (ARM), P Gerhard (AUT), N Vahid (AZE), V Bieke (BEL), A Kurlovich (BLR), N Kolev (BUL), D Offermann (CYP), P Krol (CZE), T Beiter (DEN), J Talts (EST), T Kuoppala (FIN), A March (FRA), G Irakli (GEO), C Baumgatner (GER), A Metcalfe (GBR), R Attila (HUN), L Palsson (ISL), C Buckley (IRL), E Sadres (ISR), M Barbone (ITA), Soerbatims (LAT), G Vladas (LTU), R Eenink (NED), P Mattingsdal (NOR), G Ion (ROU), S Srytsov (RUS), M Milan (SER), M E Casadei (SMR), P Mutafov (SVK), E Estarlik (ESP), E Helgesson (SWE), T Daniel (SUI), G Sanli (TUR), T Kim (UKR), total 34 countries attended the congress. 2. Welcome Seven person sit on the head table; Mr Sadres (President of ISR WF ), Mr Ajan (President of IWF), Mr Urso (President of EWF), Mr Akkus (General Secretary of EWF), Mr Krol (1st Vice President of EWF), Mr Johansson (Chairman of T&S Committee), Mr Steve Cannon (Assistant of T&S Committee). Mr Urso welcomed all delegates and stated that we have been many times in Israel for competitions, meetings and seminars. Mr Urso welcomed especially to Mrs Yochi Barak she is wife of Dr Shimon Barak. He tanked again to Mr Sadres for organizations and hospitality, He specially thanked to Mr Uri Schaeffer, he is from Israel Minister of Culture and Sport and Mr Tamas Ajan President of IWF, Mr Alexander Gerasimenko IWF Vice President, Mrs Moira Lassen IWF EB Member and Mr Christian Baumgartner IWF EB Member, Mr Mariano Lucas Gaitan (AC) He gave the floor to Mr Sadres, Mr Sadres welcomed all delegations and continued his speech to give information about organization that 220 weightlifters joined to the competitions from 36 nations. Israel WF organized Youth, Junior&U23 European WC, now organizes Senior EWC, he wished very successful competitions to all athletes and officials. Mr Uri Schaeffer took the floor and he welcomed every body, he thanked Mr Urso for giving this organization to Israel and special thanked for trusting, he commemorated Mr Shimon Barak he past away few years ago and he devoted his life for weightlifting. He appreciated Dr Shimon for what he did for weightlifting. He wished good luck to all participants on behalf of the Israel Minister of Culture and Sport. Mr Ajan took the floor and stated that he would like to welcome to 45 years for EWF and wished all the best and EWF is growing up and thanked for leadership of EWF. This event is third big competitions in Israel, Israel organized University World WC and European WC in Eilat few years ago and now Senior EWC in Tel Aviv. He mentioned about outstanding personality of Dr Shimon Barak. Sports can contribute alot for peace. He mentioned about the history that he negotiated very close with Mr Barak, Mr Barak served the sport and the peace and his idea was to organized a competition in Eilat which is close to Egypt and Jordan with arabic countries. Mr Barak worked very hard then he was elected IWF EB member and he was chairman of IWF MC and unfortunatell he past away few years ago. His last activity was in London OG, he devoted his life for the www.ewfed.com e-mail: [email protected] EUROPEAN WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION Affiliated to: INTERNATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION President General Secretary ANTONIO URSO (ITA) HASAN AKKUS (TUR) Address: Suleyman Sirri Sok. No:3 Kat:8/805 06140 Kızılay-Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 433 01 84 Fax: +90 312 433 01 85 Iban SM55 V032 6209 8000 00000 306184 Code swift: ASTTSMSMXXX (ASSET BANCA S.P.A della Repubblica di San Marino) Covering bank: KREDBEBBXXX (KBC-BANK BRUSSELS) Weightlifting. Usually saying succesfull men can be realy successfull with a nice lady with standing behind of him, he finished his speech by thanking to Mrs Yochi Barak. 3. Approval of the Minutes of the previous meeting Delegates of congress unanimously approved the minutes of previous meeting. 4. Information about the Championships and proposals for consideration in further planning Mr Sadres took floor again to give information about championships that 210 weightlifters accredited from 36 nations, Tichonet Sport Hall is competition hall and training area is hangar one. Marina hotel and Grand Beach hotel and Tal hotel are official hotels for team delegations and technical officials. Everything is arranged for transportation, hotel, food. There are fifteen platforms in the training area and nein platforms in the warming-up area. 5. Confirmation of the Technical Officials Mr Johansson took floor and gave informations about Technical Officials and read names of selected TO. 6. Award to well-deserving personalities Mr Akkus gave information that two lifters Mrs Tatiana Kashirina (RUS) and Mr Ruslan Albegov (RUS) from Europe were awarded the 2013 lifter of the Year, President Urso congratulated them and Russian WF with official letter before. Mrs Kashirina and Mr Ruslan were not in Tel Aviv yet, Mr Sergey Syrtsov was invited on behalf of Mrs Kashirina and Mr Albegov to the stage and President Urso conratulated him and presented EWF Gold Collars to Mr Syrtsov. 7. Report of the General Secretary He gave information about visiting to Tbilisi for 2015 Senior EWC and he continued about EWF Competition Entry System (EWFCES) that the EWFCES tested for weeks, all EWF member federations have got ID and Passwords to access the system. And all federation have got user manual of EWFCES. The EWFCES have been used by some countries. He thanked Germany Weightlifting Federation because the federation has been using the system very effective and he used the Germany database to introduce the system. He showed how working the EWFCES. The EWFCES is ready to work for entries, EWF EB made a decision that after that EWFCES is official competition entry system for EWF Competitions and EWF Secretariat doesnt accept any entry forms by e-mail or fax. He summarized how the EWFCES is working on the projector. And he showed EWF Twitter account (@ewfed) and EWF FaceBook account (European Weightlifting Federation) and he invited all delegation to follow EWF Twitter and EWF FaceBook pages. Mr Urso thanked the General Secretary and he invited all Member Federatios to use the new software for entries. 8. Report of the Treasurer Mr Casadei took the floor and said that he gives the report with number 11 “Approval of 2013 financial report” then he continued that delegates can find details of budget 2013 in folders and the budget between 1st January-31st December 2013, 8 February 2014 the auditors came to control www.ewfed.com e-mail: [email protected] EUROPEAN WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION Affiliated to: INTERNATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION President General Secretary ANTONIO URSO (ITA) HASAN AKKUS (TUR) Address: Suleyman Sirri Sok. No:3 Kat:8/805 06140 Kızılay-Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 433 01 84 Fax: +90 312 433 01 85 Iban SM55 V032 6209 8000 00000 306184 Code swift: ASTTSMSMXXX (ASSET BANCA S.P.A della Repubblica di San Marino) Covering bank: KREDBEBBXXX (KBC-BANK BRUSSELS) balance of 2013. He asked Member Federations to pay affiliation fee. Closing budget of last year was 163,255 € and some credits 45,547 €, some countries paid organization fee, some of them will pay, and EWF decided to donate national Federation with barbels and discs and all total expences were 117,653 €. He remainded that all details of expences and budget is in writen report. Please see annex #1. Mr Akkus asked for any question to Treasurer and he ask to accept the Report of Treasurer. Delegates unanimously accepted the Report of Treasurer and Budget of EWF. 9. Report of the Chairman of Technical&Scientific and Medical Committees Mr. Benny Johansson (chairman of T&S Committee) took the floor and stated that they had a fruitful meeting together with Medical Committee yesterday morning which took four and half hours. He pointed out some important titles discussed in the meeting, one of them was EWFCES and this new system is great step forward and also great step in right direction and T&S Committee membes also evaluated last EWC which was held in Tallinn, it was a good competition and he thanked to Mr Talts for organization and hospitality and also it was very good for referees, there were some technical mistakes. Mrs Ion from Romania prepared the report that EWF organizations need more female technical officials. Total numbers of female technical official in Europe is 144 this is good number. 27 of them worked as Technical Officials in EWF events between 2010-2013. According to the years figüre is like 2010 nine female TOs, 2011 nine female TOs, 2012 ten female TOs and 2013 eleven female TOs. Only 30 national Federation have female technical officials in Europe. We must do some thing about it and 30 percent of TOs should be women, nowadays we are working with 4-5 female TOs. T&S Committe will organize coaching seminar and training camping in July under the leadeship of Mr Eduards Andruskevics he is also member of T&S C. And T&S C will organize referee seminar in Lanskrona Sweden and in Tallinn Estonia (fort he Baltic Countries).