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Newsletter DeCember
2001
Minutes of the IPF Congress
2001 in Sotkamo Finland
Wednesday 14th of
November 2001
From 10.00 am to 15.00 p.m. hours
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Agenda
1.
The President opened the congress and gave the floor
to the Meet Director, Heikki Piirainen,
to speak about the details of the championships.
2.
Roll Call
of Nations
and Delegates Presentation of
Credentials of each Nation. Certification
of Athletes and Referees. Representatives from 26 Nations present. Start
10 p.m., end 11 p.m.
3. Minutes of the
last Congress
taken as sent
out, no written complaints, no objections
4. Treasurers Report
The financial situation is
very good. Never in the history of the IPF has the financial situation been so good. We have more income in the
budget than foreseen and so we can close the books with a profit. This success
we have achieved due to the good collaboration between the EC and our sponsors.
Because of this situation it
was possible to give some free bars to help national federations. Money need
not always be collected from the athletes and referees as done in past years.
In the future, all attempts at World Records in all age categories as well as
on fourth attempts will be free to
athletes if they are not previously drawn by the jury. Because of the fiscal
surplus, we can work in a more professional manner than before and can send
members of the EC, TC or DC to do the work of the IPF at our championships. Our
ambition for the future is to relieve the athletes and officials from fees. The
only fee that we must raise for 2003 is the membership fee for federations,
because this fee is far too low. In the future, surpluses will be applied to
implementing a more professional newsletter format, and to raise the calibre of
our World Championships.. This year we have more than covered our costs, making
a profit from doping control fines. Of
course, I hope that in the future, we have
less income from doping positives, as to realise this is bad for our athletes
and the reputation of the our sport.
I thank all the EC members
and the sponsors who have helped us to reach this financial situation.
Together with the Assistant
Treasurer Gerhard Geissler it also has been possible to collect a number of
outstanding debts, from delinquent membership fees (1998,1999 and 2000).
I want to thank Gerhard for
his help because he is in large measure responsible for the increasingly
positive financial situation, and in the increased. professionalism of the
Treasurer’s Office.
Accepted unanimously Gaston
Parage IPF Treasurer
2. Presidents
AdDress
Dear IPF members,
I would ask that all members share with me a moment to express our
sorrow at the terrible tragedy that occurred in New York on September 11th. I
am sure I speak for all of us as I send to the people who have lost ones near
and dear to them our heartfelt sympathies. I propose that the IPF 2001 Congress
observe one minute of silence in honour of those people who perished by the
hands of such an outrageous and inhuman act .
Soon we will be in Finland for the 2001 IPF Men’s World Championships
and the IPF Congress. I hope to hear the reports from the various Vice
Presidents about the progress in advancing the sport of powerlifting in their
regions. I am happy about the growth of the sport and bigger and better
championships. Of course there is lots more to do and the sport needs all our
help to continue to grow. When I had some health problems during this year I
was pleased to see how some of our officials in the executive or other
committees - as the Vice Presidents Arnulf Wahlstroem and Larry Maile, the
Treasurer Gaston Parage, the Chairman of the Technical Committee John
Stephenson or the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee Detlev Albrings -
showed initiative and let by their excellent working forget the president´s
temporary indisposition. That encourages me to restrict my activity of what is
the real duty of a president, to provide input once in a while and for the rest
of the time, to represent this organisation
in other important affairs. I think it would not make a better president out of
me if I would interfere in every trifle.
My administration has been true to its agenda. We are moving closer to
our Olympic recognition status. Many good things are happening but there is
much more to be done. General Secretary Heiner Koeberich is working very hard
providing a great deal of the necessary detail work for the IOC recognition
project. The IPF may be the very first sports organization to sign on with WADA
for out of competition testing. Most of that work is done and we are waiting
for our contractual agreement with WADA to be signed. The 2001 World Games in
Akita City, that were so well presented by Susumu Yoshida and his team and
enjoyed the many influential representatives from IOC, GAISF, IWGA and other
international sports federations who attended our two day competition as
interested spectators, reported positive impressions of our sport.
I am pleased that after 18 years, IPF World Championship events are
again scheduled in the USA, the home of powerlifting. The IPF Master’s Bench
Press World Championships in April 2002 will be held in Texas. A special thanks
goes to John Inzer for removing the Ernie Frantz Judgment from the IPF. Mr.
Inzer, and his company Inzer Advance Designs, have been the biggest and most
consistent sponsor of IPF competitions for many years. Quietly, behind the
scenes, Inzer’s company and representative, Mr. Peter Thorne, have acted in many ways to ensure that the
organisation of some of the contests were successful.. At the request of the
IPF and meet directors this company has quietly stepped in and possibly saved
several IPF world championships.
The IPF is a democratic organization. The IPF has a democratic forum for
the expression of differing views. Issues are voted on by a constitutional
procedure. Members invest time and money to be present to take part in this
democratic process. This democratically expressed will of the IPF congress is
what governs the IPF. So this year the congress has to discuss a number of
proposals which shall help to make the IPF´s structure more efficient.
On the other hand I have been very much saddened to see attacks that are
personal, have ethnic references and are full of unfounded accusations. I was,
as were many others, deeply concerned when IPF property IPF.COM was registered
in a member’s name. Many times there was a promise for the return of IPF.COM.
to the IPF. But the person who had it wrote that IPF.COM would be sold „to
teach the IPF a bit of a lesson“. This behaviour is unfortunate to all IPF
powerlifting members. It is unfortunate and it is an unpleasant distraction to
our sport. In other areas things are working well. There are many good things
to report. Federations, Regions and the Executives have been working well
together. The Olympic recognition movement is going forward more smoothly than
anticipated. The World Games in Akita were a wonderful showcase for the sport
of Powerlifting. The upcoming GAISF meeting in Singapore will have a strong IPF
presence and holds more promise of further advancement of the sport. I am also
in positive continuing discussions with Eurosports. Eurosports may commit to
showing our world championships on Eurosports television. Eurosports is
affiliated with ESPN. The progress towards TV coverage is very encouraging. I
look forward to the IPF Men’s World Championships in Finland. There the
democratic IPF Congress will vote on the issues being presented. That is the
proper forum to express our ideas and differences. The will of the majority of
the IPF Congress of nations will continue to be the will of the IPF.
I am pleased with the results so far but there is much more to do. Our
sport has much to accomplish. We make the task far easier by working together. It
is quite simple to state that this or that is "impossible" and then
nothing will be accomplished. We should take the less simple task. All the good
things for powerlifting are possible.
Accepted unanimously.
Norbert Wallauch, IPF
President
5. Secretary´s
Report.
The last year after the 2000 Congress was an especially hard year as,
during that time, the IPF had 4 new World championships; more then ever before.
World Championships now include: the 1st
Bench Masters Worlds in Luxembourg, the 1st Students Worlds in
St.Petersburg, both in April, the World Games in Akita-City and the 1st
Subjuniors Worlds in Sochi. Because of this busy schedule, I was did not spend
more than one week out of every month either home in Frankfurt, or in Prague.
But in any case it was a pleasure to serve at all of these
championships. I could see that the standard of each of them continues to
increase, especially as I am now not the only IPF officer present, except at the
1st Subjuniors Worlds, where I had to manage it alone. I have
minimum two other officers of the IPF with me at each championships. This is going to show the outside world that
we have very well organised championships. This all was only possible because
of the signing of contracts with
suppliers like Inzer, Ivanko, Titan, Crain, Nippyo and others, who gave the IPF
the money for travel costs for more than two IPF officers.
Often I was asked how much the IPF me pays for my work, they were very
astonished when I told nothing. I am a volunteer like the other IPF officers. The
only ``salary`` I’ve received in the past 4 years is 50 DEM per day for using my computer at a World
championship. I’ve never asked for money from the IPF for my computer hardware,
although I bought 7 desktops during the last ten years. At home, most of the
time, I have two computers are running, at my own expense. During the same time
I had to buy six notebooks as the dust of competition has destroyed them after
a short while.
Often in the last two years I have written that the IPF needs a fully
paid Sports Director. I was very much surprised to hear that people
supposed I want to create this position
for me. This is totally wrong, as in this case I would risk loosing my pension
from the German state. These were only rumours spread out by some people who
want to harm me. For years, I have been a volunteer like all the other IPF
officials. My income comes from the German government. It is only because I am
a pensioner that I have the time to do so much for Powerlifting.
The Sports Director shall be a fully paid position besides all the
volunteers to support them, a person who is doing the necessary daily work and
is always available. This is especially important now as we are near to IOC
recognition. The IPF will not always
be so fortunate to have a pensioner like me as GS. A GS who is employed full
time will need such a Sports Director,
as will our volunteer President. Such a professional position will
provide continuity given that volunteer IPF officials may change with each
election.
My workload is now very large, but my new partner, Leona it is she is
helping me to complete the work of the IPF, very much like an assistant
secretary. In terms of time, my number
one duty now is responding to the e-mail
correspondence to the IPF. Some
days I spend up to 5 hours reading, writing, and answering emails. I think in
on the one hand, e-mails are a very great thing, but on the other hand e-mails
can also be very dangerous. Often as it is so easy to write and send them. They are written to quickly and sometimes
with forethought. I also receive many
e-mails from lifters around the world , which come to me instead of to their
national offices. They tell me I am the
only one who is answers them quickly
enough. Many ask me to send a
confirmation of having received it, especially if it is a nomination, but that
I cannot and do not want to do, as it would increase my workload by another 10
to 20 percent. Some people measure the value of an officer of the IPF by their
response to email. For some, that is
the most important task, but there is other important work to do as well.. To save time, and to allow for other
important work, please look at the IPF Nominations page to see if your
submission has been received. I will
not confirm directly
For me the workload is never a negative thing, I like to work. What I
hate are attacks especially if they are in the Internet, like this year from
Andrey Butenko or Mike Armstrong on the Canadian powerlifting forum, against
Russia and the IPF.
I want to thank all my colleagues from the IPF who helped me and the
nations who support me in my duties for powerlifting. I also hope that this can
be raised to a higher standard in the next years.
I have prepared a bid for IOC recognition. The outcome was, that the
World Games in Akita City, a number of IOC members watched how Powerlifting was
organised, and enjoyed the competition. Now I am going to submit the 2nd
bid, requested by the IOC, which
hopefully will have recognition for our sport as the final result.
Accepted unanimously Heiner Köberich
6. A. Medical
Committee Report
Dr. Matthias Ritsch is not
any more available for this position, so there has been no report.
A
new Chairman; Dr..Bernie Miller,
USAPL has been appointed from 19 November 2001.
6. B Technical
Committee Report
It is with pleasure that once again, on behalf of the Technical
Committee I submit the annual report to Congress.
With the minor changes made to the rules of competition at last year's
Congress and brought into force on the first of January this year, quite a
number of calls and correspondence has been received asking for clarification
and definition on many of the amendments.
Consequently in accordance with 5 - 11 Constitution and By - Laws an
"Interpretation" was produced, published in International Powerlifter
magazine, and may be viewed on the IPF web site. Incidentally, it will be noted that foot placement and foot
movement (definition of) for inclusion
in the rule book forms part of T.C. proposals to-day.
The unofficial position of
Referee's Registrar held by Goran Gunnarsson ( who has excelled in his duties)
is on the agenda to-day to be made official.
We, the T.C. feel the position warrants credibility, and urge delegates
to vote - YES.
Goran informs that 22 category two and 6 category one have been added to
the list this past year.
Category two :
Category one:
Czech Republic 4 Sweden
1
Spain 3
Germany 1
Italy 1 Great Britain 2
Finland 3
Ukraine 2
France 2
Denmark 1
Russia 3
Canada 1
Sweden 1
Italy 1
Iran 1
USA 1
The current list of referees now numbers 420.
The introduction of a more comprehensive exam and four years period as
category two, no doubt explains the lack of applications received for the
category one exam. The committee have
found it preferable (and in the interest of candidates) that category two
examinations are conducted at national championships or clinics, where they may
be examined in their own language. At all major World Championships this past
year members of the committee have been
in attendance selecting referees and Juries, briefing referees with updated
rules, running
the competition secretariat, and generally overseeing with the help and
guidance of General Secretary Heiner Koberich. The committee express their
gratitude to the IPF treasury for the financial help given towards expenses. A
regular newsletter from the T.C. has been published on the internet, and within the pages of International
Powerlifter, courtesy of Wim Wamsteeker and Dennis Unitt. Thanks to them both.
The T.C. are experiencing problems at World Championships when nominated
referees fail to attend. Referee/Jury
lists drawn up for announcement at the technical meeting often become
completely worthless. It is appreciated
that most referees incur their own expenses and may find difficulty fulfilling
the appointments. But the committee
would like to thank all of the referees who have made themselves
available.
Personally I would like to thank members of the committee most sincerely
for their continued support. In the near future the committee must once again
try to address the subject of limited range of movement in the bench
press. A cause of much discontentment. To
introduce the same method of "attempts" as in weight lifting where
lifters will not be disqualified for failing to nominate the next attempt
within a minute is also a consideration.
Finally the committee shall continue to uphold the good name of the IPF
and carry out all duties entrusted in us.
Accepted unanimously JOHN STEPHENSON
6.C
Disciplinary Committee Report
The Disciplinary committee
consist of the following members:
Pavol Müller (Slovakia),
Dietmar Wolf (Norway), Larry Maile (USA),
Susumu Yoshida (JAP),
Detlev Albrings (Germany). Since the DC was installed at the Congress in
Akita last year, the DC has done a lot of work (see enclosed suspension list).
We had to decide 15 doping cases
and we examined and discussed each of this cases in detail.
Furthermore we had two cases, in which lifters had competed against
IPF-suspended lifters. These lifters got a warning for their first offence.
We had to found out, that many of our paragraphs in the section
“Penalties” aren’t defined well enough to give the DC a basis for defendable
judgements. Therefore we have made proposals in co-operation with the IPF-EC to
solve these problems. I thank all the
members of the Committee for their good co-operation and I hope, that the DC
will not have to decide so many cases in future. The DC normally should be the
committee, which has the least work.
I wish you a successful
Congress and a good World Championships. Best wishes.
Accepted unanimously
Detlev Albrings
7. regional reports
Report
from Region 1 - EUROPE. 2001 IPF Congress.
General.
The powerlifting activity has been good in Europe this
year . The quality of our championships
is a mirror of how well the
powerlifting sport is administrated, and the EPF Executive gives
priority to assisting the organisers by sending two representatives to most of
the European championships.
Members
The European Powerlifting Federation
(EPF) has 31 (31*) full and 3 (3*) provisional member nations. The
yearly EPF Congress took part in Syktyvkar, Russia in May with delegates from
15 (19*) member Nations present.
Hall of Fame were honoured at the EPF Congress to Jan Wilczynski,
Poland and Wym Elin, Belgium (lifters).
EPF Powerlifters of the Year 2000 were honoured to Marina Kudinova from Russia
and Jaroslaw Olech from Poland (top
ranked lifters).
EPF Executive members are: Arnulf Wahlstrøm, Norway (pres.), Klaus Broström,
Denmark (v.pres. and law & legisl. com. chairm.), Heiner Köberich (gen.
secr. and treasurer), Myriam Busselot, Belgium (technical com. chairm.), Pavol Müller, Slovakia (finance com. chairm & disciplinary com. chairm.) and Kalevi
Sorsa, Finland (Appeal com. chairman)
Jari Tähtinen, Finland is
appointed as Record Registrar and David
Hinchley, GB is appointed as Internet
Officer.
General view of activities
The European Region has been active in organising international championships and cups in 2001.
This includes 6 out of 7 World
championships (Masters Bench, Women’s, Juniors, Subjuniors, Masters and Men’s),
7 European championships (juniors, seniors, women, masters and bench press for seniors and masters), 3
Nordic championships (Women’s, juniors and Benchpress), Danube cup, European
Union cup and St. Petersburg cup.
European championships.
·
Senior European Champ. Syktyvkar, Russia with 67 (114*) lifters from 15 (22*) nat.
·
Women “ “ Luxembourg
(2000) with 72 (73*) participants from 17 nations.
·
Junior “ “ Pontrieux,
France 37 (43*) women and 74 (76*) men
from 15 (16*) nations.
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Master “
Bratislava, Slovakia 28(25*)
women and 121 (110*) men from 16 (16*) nations.
·
Benchpr. “ “ Jurmela,
Latvia with 86(97*) men and 55(47*)
women from 19 (21*) nations.
·
Benchpr. Masters “ Gönyü,
Hungary 35 (23*) women and 118 (101*) men from 17(15) nations.
Regional Championships and Cups.
·
Nordic Championships by
Finland (juniors + youth), Denmark (senior men) and Norway (bench press).
·
Slovakia hosted the Danube
Cup ,Ireland the European Union Cup and Russia the St. Petersburg cup.
* means numbers in year 2000.
Accepted unanimously
Arnulf Wahlström
Report from
S-America
Unfortunately the year 2000 report
did not arrive in time, due to the little lapse between the last contest of
South American calendar and the presentation of that report to the IPF
Congress. Personally, I think it was the most productive period because of the
attainment of sites for the 3 Worldchampionships 2002 Juniors (Venezuela), 2002
Masters (Villa Maria-Cordoba, Argentina), and 2004 Mens open (Peruibe-Brazil),
also that the powerlifting and benchpress championships of South America were
the best we have had.
This year, 2001 the Southamerican
championships of powerlifting were held in Venezuela and the recent benchpress
championships were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was not a remarkable
year in quantity of lifters, even though the venues of the championships were
of the highest quality. The difficult economic period that this South American
countries are passing through did not allow the more distant countries to
attend all championships, and caused other ones to send reduced delegations.
However, the groups that are working for the 3 future Worlds in South America
are doing so in an efficient way in order to host very good events.
I expect that the IPF Congress may
approve this brief but realistic report due to the situation which we are
stubborn enough to get through successfully.
Accepted
unanimously
Jose Puentes
Report from Africa
Once again the major problem of
distance, communication and lack of interest were the main factors that have
prevented meaningful co-operation to the establishment of a greater African
Powerlifting Federation.
Dialog was opened with the president
of the Congo Powerlifting and Fitness Federation as well as maintaining contact
with the Kenyan, Ugandan and Botswana representatives.
The South African Powerlifting
Federation once again opened their national championships to encompass the All
Africa Championships and the invitation to nations to participate was
circulated through the IPF web site and the newsletter. Unfortunately nil
response was received and no African nations participated.
If one has to analyse the reasons
for the negative interest and involvement it will be found that not only is
there a major communication problem throughout Africa there is a general lack
of training and coaching facilities and obviously finances play a major role.
Having said this, a meeting was held
with the South African Department of Sport and the National Olympic Committee
to get some ideas and input on the structure and communication. A few
suggestions were made and one of these was contact through the All Africa Games
committee to the various countries concerned.
Unfortunately as Powerlifting is not
an Olympic sport The All Africa Games committee does not have contact with
Powerlifting Federations in African countries and are not in a position to
assist.
Another suggestion was that a
meeting of interested parties be arranged in a central location in Africa in
order to structure a federation however once again finances play a role and
monies need to be made available in order to achieve this. Constructive
input/ideas from experienced members of the IPF would also be welcomed on this
issue. On the positive side, good contact has been established with Botswana and
an International competition has been arranged between Botswana and a South
African development team for December this year.
It is my belief that even
with the problems of Africa there must still be a vast potential to develop our
sport and a search for the solution will continue.
Accepted
unanimously
Alan Ferguson
Report from North
America.
This marks my completion of one year
as Vice President of the IPF for North America. It has been a busy year, but in
some ways, has not shown much forward movement in terms of development of a
regional powerlifting movement on this continent.
First the bad news: the scheduled
North American Championships was cancelled due to the poor decisions of the
meet promoter in extending himself financially without following through with
the arrangements. A number of lifters were scheduled to attend, but had to
change plans. The promoter disappeared owing the competition hotel a great deal
of money which they are seeking through the legal system. We will try again to
generate interest in regional powerlifting in the coming year through by
inviting lifters to attend USAPL Nationals as guests, and when legally
advisable, with parallel competition for North American Championships.
Apparently as a result of
dissatisfied members of IPF affiliate nations in this region, South and Central
American regions are attending the World Championships of another organization
in the Caribbean area. While there attendance has not, historically, been high
at IPF World Championships, they are a vital part of the North American Region.
It is our hope that they will return to the IPF when World Championships are
more accessible as they begin returning to the U.S. in 2002.
This year marks the return to the
USA of the IPF. The first Pacific Cup was staged, with small attendance, but
with interest for the future. It will likely be staged again in 2002 as the
Pacific Rim Nations extended travel budgets attending the World Games in 2001.
Guests are always welcome at competitions in Hawaii and Alaska, however. We are
also working on an IPF Bench Competition in New York City if the tragic events
of September 11 do not make travel and arrangements impossible. If security
renders this impossible at this time, we will work to reschedule it in 2002.
Competitors, coaches, and spectators
from the USA visited Russia as guests of the Russian Federation and Mr.
Bogatchev in March. Good friendship was enjoyed by all, and we look forward to
future exchanges of athletes and officials. At least one international
friendship competition between regions is planned for 2002, and lifters from
North America have been invited to participate in a number of events in Europe and
other regions.
Plans are underway for future IPF
World Championships in North America. The 2002 Master Bench Championships will be held in Killeen,
Texas, with the 2003 Women’s Championships to be held in Chicago. Bids for
several competitions will be submitted at this year’s congress, for Men’s, Jr.,
and Bench Championships in 2004 and beyond.
Canada hosted a very successful
Master’s World Championships in Moose Jaw, Alberta in late October. Attendance was high, and the quality of the
organisation was exceptional.
Some progress has been made
reactivating referees from other organizations who had earned National and IPF
credentials in the past. The IPF position with regard to athletes competing in
other organizations against banned lifters has been strengthened in 2001 as
well. Finally, we would like to extend
an open invitation for lifters from IPF affiliate nations to visit the U.S.,
lift as guests in our competitions, and share training and tourist experiences.
You are always welcome as our guests.
Accepted
unanimously
Larry Maile
Annual Report from Asian Region
This year Asian Powerlifting Championships were very impressive. The Championships
was held in New Delhi, India by the strong and complete directorships of
Mr.Subrata Dutta, the President of Asian Powerlifting Federation
The weather in India in early May was very hot but the auditorium was
completely air-conditioned and the lifters had no difficulty in the
competition.
We had 6 different classes. Open class, Junior class, Sub Junior class
both for Men and for Women. Specially, International Sub Junior class was the
first meet in the world.
Our host country India was very impressive, with many talented lifters. Iran
was also was very strong, especially in theheavy weight class. Kazakhstan was
strong as usual. In the Women’s division, the team from Taiwan was, as, always
very strong, and proved that they are the top of this class in the world. 2002 Asian Powerlifting Championships will
be held in Korea. The President of Korean Federation, Mr. Cho has already
started to work to organise this big meet next year.
The next memorable event was the World Games in Akita City, Japan.. IOC members and GAISF members were present
at the powerlifting venue and they enjoyed the outstanding performance of the
best lifters in the world.
IPF executives had the chance to talk with some of the IOC members and
started what will be a good relationship
between the IPF and the IOC.
In Japan, the World Games were televised nationally, with many people
watching powerlifting. Japanese national TV, NHK televised the World Games
every night, and many national level newspapers reported the World Games everyday
with wonderful colour photos.
This year, Asian Powerlifting
Federation welcomed a new country, Nepal. Now we have 16 countries. The
progress of Asia may not be fast but it is steady. We have a bright future in
the Asian Region.
Accepted unanimously Susumu
Yoshida
Report from Oceania
Membership: The following Oceania nations have paid their 2001 full
OPF/IPF fees -Australia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa,Tahiti, Tonga,Tuvalu This has meant a static number of nations in
the OPF, relative to 2000. It also
means that American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Northern Marianas & Wallis & Futuna can be
considered to have dropped out, having not registered for two years. This is disappointing as most of those
nations still, I believe, have powerlifting activity, as do still other Oceania
nations, which have never joined the IPF.
In our region high costs of travel over large distances, poor ommunication infrastructure and economic
difficulties continue to make integration of powerlifting a challenge.
Administration: The Annual
General Meeting of the OPF was held in Townsville on 27th July.
The Committee for the coming year
was elected as follows -
President R Wilks (Aus)
Vice-President G
Fong (NZ)
Secretary/Treasurer D
Pomana (NZ)
Committee T Burley (Aus)
R
Atchison (Aus)
B Armstrong (NZ)
A Tano (Niue)
R Kun (Nauru)
The Oceania website has been setup by webmaster Tony Burley, as has been
a Powerlifting Australia site. These
both became fully operational in 2001 and have been a great aid to
communication in the region.
Oceania Championships: The 2001
Oceania Championships were held in Townsville, Australia 27-29 July, in
conjunction with the Australian Championships.
Seventy lifters from four nations took part, in a successful event. Best lifters were Julie Deakin Australia
500kg 82 ½ kg and Bradley Horne 910kg
125+kg.
The 2002 Oceania Championships are scheduled for Christchurch, New
Zealand in December. In 2003 there will
be a South Pacific Games, to be held in Suva, Fiji, hopefully with powerlifting
included.
Doping Control: Australia and
New Zealand continued to run effective government controlled in and out of
competition testing programmes in 2001.
Australia recorded one positive and New Zealand two, with the general
belief being that doping is well controlled in both nations.
As far as is known, the Island nations were only exposed to testing at
the 2001 Oceania Championships. Hopefully
the IPF’s involvement with WADA will allow for world-wide testing in the
future.
Accepted unanimously
Robert Wilks
It was pointed out that in Oceania
and in Africa there are similar problems with the long distances between the
member federations and the very poor
communications. Often the federations do
not reply on Faxes or e-mails and are not to be reached by phone.
8. Proposals and
Rule Changes.
Proposals from the Danish Powerlifting Federation
1. "The official agenda for the IPF congress must be received by
all members at least 21 days before the congress takes place. If not in the
agenda can not be voted for. "
Withdrawn
Amendment: to follow the ByLaws 8.01 (that specify 30
days before the IPF Congress) and to
correct the Constitution 505.6.c to be in line with the ByLaws 8.01 (30 days prior to Congress instead of 60 days).
Accepted unanimously
2. "Doping suspended lifters cannot report for any competition
before the two years of suspension expires"
Motivation: Lifters that are suspended should not be in any kind of
communication with the IPF. They are suspended and do not exist before the
suspension expires. Therefor to accept a report for a meeting is to cut of part
of the punishment.
Withdrawn
in favour of the proposal no. 12-(4).
3. "All doping suspended lifter should be displayed on the IPF homepage during their suspension
period"
Motivation: It should be easy for anyone to see if a
lifter by mistake is reported for a meeting.
Withdrawn
Proposals from EPF Congress 2001
4
Organisers of World
championships and cups shall provide for the referees and the IPF officials
free meals during the competition. Free meals should preferably include at
least two servings of food and non-alcoholic drinks each competition day served
in the competition area. Only referees
and IPF officials that work with official duties during a competition day
shall be granted such benefit from the organiser.
Accepted unanimously
5
Any nation participating with more than 4 lifters in IPF championships or IPF cups should include
at least one international referee among their team officials available for
refereeing or being jury member. In combined championships/cups (Men and Women)
the 4 lifters include the total number of lifters from one nation.
If a referee from that nation is not
present or, if present, is not available to act in the capacity of either
referee or member for jury during the championship/cup, then the lifters are
allowed to take part but a fine of DM
500 has to be paid by the nation. Such
payment must be in the hand of the IPF Treasurer before lifters from that
nation are allowed to take part in any further IPF or regional championships or cup.
Not
accepted (2 yes, 21 no, 3 abstention)
6
Change the IPF Constitution 404A.5
Duties (b) (5). To read: “To represent his Region at the IPF Executive
Meetings and the Congress with vote and
voice.”
Withdrawn.
Amendment: Add in the ByLaws Group I the Congress to read: All
IPF EC officers, by virtue of their
attaining officer status in the IPF, be allowed admission to the Congress in
its entirety with vote and with voice.
Only one vote per person is allowed as
the officer can not represent both his nation and the IPF Executive committee.
Acceted (24 yes, 1 no, 1 abstention)
7.
IPF
shall reinstall on 2001 Congress the
Law and Legislation committee to prepare proper all proposals for the IPF Constitutional
Congress in 2002
Accepted
unanimously.
Appointed by the IPF EC as chairman
for the L&L is Detlev Albrings, Germany
8.
No one, who has been involved in Dru goffences, or has been suspended by
drug abuse shall be proposed for Hall
of Fame.
Accepted
unanimously
9.
“Amateur” and “Professional”
(IPF)
Delete all references to
amateurism and professionalism from the Constitution, By-Laws, Technical Rules
and any other official IPF documents.
Accepted
unanimously
10.
From Disciplinary Committee Constitution 404A.2 Executive
Changes are in
bold letters. Proposed by the German
Federation Detlev Albrings
(All the below to be voted
on in block.)
(B)
Powers of the Executive:
(6) To conduct disciplinary hearings: The Disciplinary Committee is the
appropriate committee for these.
(7) To conduct appeal hearings: The Appeal Committee is the appropriate
committee for these.
(b) Appeal hearings
The Appeal Committee shall receive all documents relating to any
appeal. Such appeals must be lodged with the general secretary within one month
of the written notification of the decision on which the appeal is based. A
copy of the appeal must be sent to the president.
The Appeal Committee shall within one month of receiving all
documentation relating to the appeal examine and investigate the matter and
decide on an appropriate penalty.
Appeals lodged with the Appeal Committee and appeals to the
Congress must each be accompanied by payment of € 300 if they relate to suspensions or fines for drug offences, or € 150 for other appeals. If the appeal
is successful no claim may be made against the IPF but half of the fee paid for
the appeal will be refunded.
An appeal against any
decision of the Appeal Committee may
be made to Congress. Such appeal must be lodged with the general secretary
within one month of the written decision of the Appeal Committee, and not later
than six weeks before the date of the Congress. The appeal shall be lodged with
the general secretary who shall then include the appeal on the agenda to be
considered by Congress.
Within a one month period
following the decision of Congress on an appeal, there shall be a final right
of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne / Switzerland.
Appeals lodged with the Appeal Committee and appeals to the
Congress must each be accompanied by payment of € 300 if they relate to suspensions or fines for drug offences, or € 150 for other appeals. If the appeal
is successful no claim may be made against the IPF, and half of the fee paid
for the appeal will be refunded.
The Appeal Committee may, in its absolute discretion, waive or vary the
time limits contained herein.
Constitution Article
606.3
Disciplinary Committee
The Disciplinary committee (DC) shall be entrusted with the examniantion
and decision of all disciplinary cases within the IPF. The mandate will be
specified in the various parts of the Constitution and By-Laws.
The Disciplinary committee consists out of the Chairman elected by
Congress and 2 members.
All suspensions must be decided by the disciplinary committee or
disciplinary committee chairman.
The procedure to deal with doping cases will be following:
1) All relevant papers regarding
a positive doping sample shall without delay be sent to the DC chairman by the General
Secretary.
2) The DC shall inform the
Fedaration, in which the lifter that tested positive is a member, to ask for
any explanation or comments regarding the positive sample. The Federation shall
be given a time limit of a maximum 1 month to answer the request of the DC.
3). If appealed by the Federation in which the lifter that tested
positive is a member, to have the B-sample analysed, the DC will organise with
the laboratory to have this carried out. The fee for appeals are € 500 to be
paid to the IPF-Treasurer prior to any analyses of the B-sample.
4). After examining all facts and documents the committee makes its
decision and send this to the IPF-Executive and the concerned Federation of
which the suspended lifter is a member. The judgements must be published in the
IPF-Newsletter.
If in doping cases in which the IPF-Constitution or IPF-By-Laws have no
guidelines, the IOC Olympic Movement Anti-Doping Code in the current version is
valid.
New: Constitution Article 606.4
Appeal Committee
The Appeal committee consists out of the Chairman elected by Congress and
4 members. The members must not be simultaneous a member in the Disciplinary
Committee.
Duties are described in the in the IPF-Constitution 404A.2 (b) „Appeal
Hearings“.
After examining all facts and documents the committee makes its decision
and send this to the IPF-Executive and the concerned Federation. The judgements
must be published in the IPF-Newsletter.
ARTICLE IX: PENALTIES
Constitution 909.1
Federations which neglect to request the required IPF permit for an
international competition and do not pay the required fee, shall be fined an
additional € 200. A warning letter
shall be sent to them by the IPF General Secretary. If the fee and fine are not
paid within thirty (30) days of sending the warning, the federation shall be
suspended until such time as the total amount has been paid. Sanction fees for
world championships must be paid at the time of application for the event.
Constitution 909.6
Full doping control results shall be sent to the IPF General Secretary
by the national or regional federation which sanctioned the contest. All
nations must report annual national doping results to the General Secretary not
later than 31st March of the following year. Required doping results are those
relating to active registered lifters within each national federation.
The report must give the total number of samples tested together with
the number of resulting positives and/or negative analyses. Annual reports are
required even if no positives were found to exist among the years analyses. A
failure to report such results by the specified
date disqualifies offending
nations from scoring team points at all World Championships until the time when the results are report
Constitution 909.7
The following penalties shall be imposed on a federation that has
lifters or officials
suspended for drug offences at or in connection with any World
Championships. (open, restricted or single lift)
1. For the first offence in any twelve month
period:
(a) A fine of maximum € 300 shall be imposed.
(b) 909:8
hereunder shall be imposed. 2. For the second offence in any twelve month
period
If the offence relates to banned substances listed
under 5.02 (e) (1) of the bylaws the fine shall be maximum € 600
If the offence relates to banned substances listed
under 5:02 (e) (2) of the bylaws the fine shall be maximum € 300
Where the offence relates to banned substances under
both 5.02 (e) (1) and 5.02 (e) (2) of the by-laws the
fine shall be maximum
€ 1.500
3. For the third offence in any twelve month
period:
(a) All the
penalties imposed by 909.7 (a) 2 shall apply.
(b) The national federation
shall be subject to OCT (out of competition testing) for all its members for a
period of twelve months. The full cost for this shall be borne by the
federation.
The above fine shall be reduced by 50% of the amounts
stated (but subject to a maximum amount
of € 300) if the lifter's
federation has an OCT testing program approved by the IPF Executive. The
provisions relating to 909.8 and out of contest testing shall also not
apply.
(e) The appeal committee may reduce, increase
(according to the maximum fines described in 909.7) or remit any fines or
sanctions imposed.
New Constitution 909.8 / renumbering the following articles
If the A-sample is positive, the President or the General Secretary has
the right to temporarily suspend the lifter. The concerned member nation must
be informed about this with the reasons and a notice, that the federation can
make a contradiction about this decision at the Disciplinary Committee within 3
weeks.
The Disciplinary committee decides definitely about the temporarily
suspension.
Constitution 909.9
A federation which is fined for drug offences committed by one or more
of its members at a world championship shall only be permitted to enter a team
for future versions of that world championship if the team is selected from a
list of lifters (maximum 20), nominated in writing to the General Secretary at
least six months prior to that world championship. All such nominated lifters
may be subject to out of competition doping control. The restrictions shall be
removed if there are no drug offenses committed at any world championship by
members of that federation for a period of two years. A failure to report this list by the specified date disqualifies
offending nations from scoring team points at all World Championships until the
time when the list is reported. Furthermore the federation must not send more
than 4 lifters to World Championships until the time when the list is reported.
Constitution 909.10
If a national federation defaults on a competition engagement with
another country or countries, the Disciplinary Committee may, in the
case of disagreement between them, make a decision or impose penalties if the
IPF Constitution or rules have been ignored.
Constitution 909.11
If a lifter or official is penalised by his federation, the federation must notify this to the IPF General Secretary within two weeks. In the case of lifters or officials suspended for drug offenses at world competitions, they will have their names published in the IPF Newsletter. Lifters or officials suspended for drug offenses at other levels of competition and at "out of competition" te