ISSF GA meeting report

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From ISSF:

July 30th, 2006 - Olegario Vázquez Raña was re-elected as ISSF President with enthusiastic applause of the delegates of the International Shooting Sport General Assembly Zagreb 2006. Accepting his election, he began his seventh four-year term by promising to do his best for the federation, while adding that it will be up to others to judge whether that is enough.



The International Shooting Sport Federation – ISSF – has conducting the meetings of the ISSF Executive Committee, ISSF Administrative Council and ISSF General Assembly in Zagreb from 27th July until 30th July 2006.

The following important decisions had been taken:
The ISSF Executive Committee in its meeting had to deal with some membership matters and had unfortunately to suspend three member federations since they have not cooperated on circular letters or reminders and it is not even known if they are still in existence. It concerns the member federations of Mali, Mauritania and Somali.
Further the ISSF Executive Committee had to deal with a reported misconduct of the top class shooter Daniele Di Spigno in the double trap event at the Cairo World Cup this year. In a shoot off for places 3 and 4 the shooter acted in an un-ethical way by the reckless discharge of his gun. The case was forwarded to the ISSF Ethics Committee which took the unanimous decision that Mr. Di Spigno should be disqualified from the Finals and that he should be given a written reprimand and be placed upon probation for good behavior until the end of the year 2007. Should he break this probation he will be suspended from ISSF competitions for at least one year from that date (depending upon the circumstances of the second offense).
The ISSF Executive Committee had to deal with three doping cases which are still pending.
The locations of the World Cups 2007 have been confirmed and the dates had been published. Further the location of the World Cup Final 2007 had been decided to be organized in Bangkok, THA in the rifle and pistol discipline and in Belgrade, SCG for the shotgun disciplines.
The Jury Members for the separate Shotgun World Championships in Cyprus 2007 had been designated.
Mr. Gary Anderson, USA has been designated as Technical Delegate for the 50th ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, GER.

In the meeting of the ISSF Administrative Council the Antigua & Barbuda Rifle Association has been accepted as new member to ISSF. Since the country of Montenegro has been recognized by the UN as a separate autarky country, the shooting federations from Montenegro (MTG) and of Serbia (SCG) had been confirmed as separate members of ISSF.

ISSF General Assembly
In the ISSF General Assembly on 29th July 2006 the delegates received the reports of the ISSF President, ISSF Secretary General and Chairman of the ISSF Technical Committee. In his report the ISSF President stated that in a meeting between him and the ISSF Secretary General and the IOC President, Dr. Jacques Rogge confirmed that the shooting sport which had been on the Olympic program since the first Games 1896 and ever since is considered as among the core sports by the IOC and its presence in the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London and also in future Games is secured.
IOC President Rogge of the IOC further confirmed the importance of the ISSF TV production and congratulated ISSF for this service to the public. ISSF President Vazquez assured the delegates that ISSF will support this project in the future.
The delegates received detailed reports on the preparations of the separate Shotgun World Championships in Cyprus 2007, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 as well as a preliminary report of the 50th World Shooting Championships 2010 in Munich, GER.

The delegates in a votation decided the location of the separate Shotgun World Championships 2009 and Gaj – Maribor in Slovenia was the lucky winner over Belgrade, SCG and Kerrville Texas, USA.

The ISSF was very satisfied that the membership fee for the period of 2007 and 2008 were not raised and remain unchanged since 1980.

The ISSF General Assembly conducted the elections of the Officers of ISSF, the members of the ISSF Administrative Council, the chairmen of all Section Committees, ISSF Honorary Members and the auditors for the next four year.
In its meeting on July 30th, 2006 the new ISSF Administrative Council conducted the election of its five members to serve on the ISSF Executive Committee for the next 4 years as well as the elections of all members of section committees for the next 2 years.


The ISSF General Assembly and ISSF Administrative Council elected the following ISSF Officers and ISSF Committee members:

President
Olegario Vázquez Raña, MEX

Secretary General
Horst G. Schreiber, GER

Vice Presidents
Gary L. Anderson, USA
Unni Nicolaysen, NOR
Luciano Rossi, ITA
Medhat Wahdan, EGY

Chairman Technical Committee
David R. V. Parish, GBR

Chairman Athletes Committee
To be elected after the WCH Zagreb!


Members Executive Committee (out of the 15 elected Council members)
S.S.H. Salman Al-Sabah, KUW
Graeme Hudson, NZL
Feng Li, CHN
Robert Mitchell, USA
Carlos Rene Silva Monterroso, GUA

Members Administrative Council
Josef Ambacher, GER
Dr. Carlos Boza, PER
Rodrigo de Mesa Ruiz, ESP
Alexandros Dimakakos, GRE
Rafael Guerra Mollinedo, CUB
Derek Ivy, GBR
Noboru Kikuchi, JPN
Woo Jae Lee, KOR
Metin Sertoglu, TUR
Jacques Trouve, FRA

Chairman Judges Committee
Kerstin Bodin , SWE

Chairman Rifle Committee
Tomislav Sepec, CRO

Chairman Pistol Committee
Susan Abbott, USA

Chairman Shotgun Committee
Demetris F. Lordos, CYP

Chairman Running Target Commmittee
Pekka Kuusisto, FIN

Chairman Statutes Committee
Antonio Fernandez Arena, MEX

Chairman Medical Committee
Dr. James M. Lally, USA

New ISSF Honorary Members
Dr. Heinz Lösel, GER
Evgeni Polikanin, RUS

Auditors
Antonio Fernandez Arena, MEX
Fritz Schattleitner, AUT


Members Technical Committee
Il-Hwan Kim, KOR
Petros Kyritsis, CYP
Max Mückl, GER
Pauline Pilkington, CAN
Fritz Schattleitner, AUT

Members Judges Committee
Ghislaine Briez, FRA
Norbert Czupalla, GER
Georgios Giamarellos, GRE
Amin Jainulabdeen Jalaluddin, IND
Rodney H. Jenneiahn, USA
Peter Underhill, GBR
Mauro Viola, ITA

Members Rifle Committee
Christina Ahlstedt, SWE
Wilhelm Grill, GER
Carlos Guimares Occhipinti, BRA
Daphna Har-Even, ISR
William E. Krilling, USA
Aado Maranik, AUS
Georgios Papapanagiotou, GRE

Members Pistol Committee
Douglas Glaister, GBR
Marco Masetti, ITA
Ki Rim Park, KOR
Sidney Esteves Peinado, BRA
Ursula Staeuble, SUI
Liviu Stan, ROM
Manfred Woelke, GER

Members Shotgun Committee
Bhattakarka Bunnag, THA
Daniele Ghelfi, ITA
Anastasios Kastanis, GRE
James (B.J.) McDaniel, USA
Keith Murray, GBR
Mohamed Medhat Wahdan, EGY

Members Running Target Committee
Gheorghe Ghinea, ROM
Michael Jakosits, GER
Istvan Jenei, HUN
Claes Johansson, SWE
Renate Koch, GER
Kwan Choon Lee, KOR
Igor A. Sokolov, RUS

Members Statutes Committee
Risto Aarekivi, FIN
Jörg Brokamp, GER
Rafael Carbajo Perez, ESP
Kazuo Ishizaki, JPN
Jaroslav Liptak, SVK
Sita Razni, INA
Bjarne Sanddahl, DEN

Members Medical Committee
Dr. Rolf Bodin, SWE
Dr. Hannu Järvinen, FIN
Dr. Jean –Emmanuel Monneyron, FRA
Dr. Stefan Nolte, GER
Dr. Eleni Papastavropoulou, GRE
Dr. Reijiro Shimo, JPN
Dr. Ilia Shleifer, RUS


Zagreb, July 30th 2006
ISSF Headquarters