THE IAAF HAS PROCESSED A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORK AND INFORMATION, MUCH OF WHICH IS LISTED IN BRIEF BELOW. DEFINITELY WORTH A LOOK. A BIT DRY, BUT IT WILL BRING YOU UP TO SPEED ON DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SPORT ON VERY MANY FRONTS. . . kk
Council appoints Pierre Weiss as Acting General Secretary - IAAF Council Meeting , Day One
Tuesday 28 March 2006
Osaka, Japan - The first session of a two day meeting of the IAAF Council in the New Otani Hotel, Osaka, the city which next year hosts the 11th edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, was opened this morning by the Mayor of Osaka Junichi Seki. He spoke of the enthusiasm of his city for the sport of athletics, and his sincere belief that next year’s edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, would reinforce the image of Osaka, and Japan, as a welcoming home for world class sporting events.
President Diack, speaking at the start of the meeting, asked for a minute’s silence in memory of Istvan Gyulai who died on 12 March: “We mourn the passing of an exceptional colleague who, by the very nature of his position of course, but, beyond that, by his intelligence, his sense of duty, his managerial skills and the unerring quality of his work, was the lynchpin of the day to day operations of the IAAF. We shall never forget Istvan Gyulai, but the example he set in his life compels us to strive to identify how, going forward, our sport can be managed even better than ever.”
IAAF Council Meeting, Osaka, Japan - Day One
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Later in the morning, Council confirmed, with immediate effect, the appointment of General Director 
Pierre Weiss (FRA) as the acting IAAF General Secretary until the next IAAF Congress in 2007 (just prior to the World Championships in Osaka).
Pierre Weiss, who has been IAAF General Director since 1991 with particular responsibility for Events and Marketing, worked in close association with Istvan Gyulai over the past 15 years.
In his President’s Communication, Lamine Diack summarised his activities since the last Council Meeting, underlining his participation in the first ever Sports Meeting at the 2006 edition of the World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of global political and business elites, in Davos. The President also emphasised the fact that the efforts of the Steering Board for the IAAF Athletics’ World Plan have started to bear fruit, most notably, with the significant results obtained by the newly formed School/Youth Commission. Backed-up by staff at the IAAF headquarters, it has just finalised a number of important technical documents which set out an educational programme targeting children between the ages of 7 and 12 and a competition programme for 13 to 15 year olds.
Koiji Murofushi, Lamine Diack, Mizuki Noguchi - IAAF Dinner
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In addition, two national courses for training instructors are scheduled for 2006, and awareness of athletics will be raised in schools with the organisation of a new IAAF World School Athletics Day initiative, which will be run, in parallel with the traditional IAAF World Athletics Day. Of the 154 IAAF Member Federations who will participate in the WAD, 144 have also confirmed their support for this new event for school children.
President Diack also drew the Council’s attention to a very important meeting which will be held on 15 and 16 June 2006, bringing together the Area Associations and the IAAF. The meeting’s objective will be to establish how best to empower the Associations by delegating more areas of responsibility directly to them.
IAAF Competition News
6 countries to bid for 2011 World Championships in Athletics
Mizuki Noguchi with Lamine Diack - World Rec. Plaques
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Dates Agreed
IAAF World Athletics Final
2007: Sat 22 – Sun 23 September
2008: Sat 20 – Sun 21 September
Candidate venues proposed to Council
2008 World Road Running Championships
- BRA
2009 World Youth Championships
- ITA & TUN
2008 World Cross Country Championships
- GBR & ITA
2011 World Championships in Athletics
Council was delighted to have received letters of intent from 6 countries from four continents to host the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.
Africa - MAR
Asia - KOR & UAE
Europe - ESP & RUS
Oceania - AUS
Qualification for 2007 World Championships Marathon, Osaka
Since 2003 the IAAF has stipulated a ‘minimum’ qualification for the two marathon races which take place at the World Championships in Athletics.
2:18 for men – 600 runners were capable of this time in 2005
2:40 for women – 450 runners were capable of this time in 2005
For the 2007 IAAF Championships in Osaka, athletes will be able to secure qualifying marks from 143 marathons around the world. A full list of Qualifying Marathons can be found in the downloads section of the IAAF website via the following link –
http://www.iaaf.org/downloads/IAAFhandbook/index.html
Athletes finishing in the top 20 positions of the marathons of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London and New York will also be considered to have achieved the qualifying standard for Osaka.
Treasurer’s Report
The Honorary Treasurer was pleased to confirm that the IAAF budget for 2005 had been respected.
A total of US$25.4 million had been spent by the IAAF on Competitions, half of which was for prize money paid to athletes:
In Helsinki 2005 at the 10th World Championships in Athletics, US$7.4 million was paid in prize money, and at the World Athletics Final in Monaco, US$3.2 million.
A total of US$12 million was invested in the IAAF Development Programme.
Transfer of Nationality/Allegiance
During the Council meeting in Moscow, the General Secretary reported the cases of Ambrose EZENWA and Hanan FAHOUN COLLETTE. These athletes acquired new Australian and French citizenship respectively. Council confirmed that COLLETTE was confirmed to eligible to represent France from 20 January 2006. Because the Nigerian Federation agreed to the early release of Ambrose EZENWA, the period was reduced to one year from the date of acquisition of new citizenship and he will be eligible to represent Australia on 20 April 2006.
Brahim LAHLAFI (Morocco) became French on 3 April 2002: the waiting period of three years now elapsed he has been eligible to compete for France since 3 April 2005.
Five athletes acquired the approval from their precedent country and therefore, the waiting period was reduced to one year. They are now eligible as follows:
- Takhir MAMASHAEV from BLR to KAZ since 23 February 2006
- Nicolas PEREIRA ALTEZ from URU to BRA since 24 February 2006
- Tanja GLICIC from SCG to BIH since 8 March 2006
- Maja JANJIC from SCG to BIH since 8 March 2006
- Germaine MASON from JAM to GBR since 8 March 2006
In addition, the following athletes acquired a new citizenship but having never competed in a competition 1 (a), (b), ©(i) and (d), are (in accordance with the Rule 5.2) eligible to compete for their new country with immediate effect:
- Nouredine SMAIN from MAR to FRA since 4 December 2005
- Chrisopher HERCULES from USA to TRI since 23 February 2006 (dual citizenship)
- Fatmata FOFANAH from USA to GUI since 17 March 2006 (dual citizenship)
- Alexander MARTINEZ from CUB to SUI since17 March 2006
- James THEURI from KEN to FRA since 17 March 2006
- Alexsey BOGDASIN from KAZ to GER since 21 March 2006
- Simon MUNYUTU from KEN to FRA since 22 March 2006
- Mohamed Elbendir KATHARI from MTN to ESP since 22 March 2006
Medical and Anti-Doping
Breakdown of the 2005/2006 ongoing Testing Programme (from beginning of October 2005 to 15 March 2006)
The table hereafter summarises:
- the number of urine samples analysed for the corresponding testing standard parameters
- the number of standard urine samples combined with blood sampling
- the number of such urine samples analysed additionally for EPO
- the number of these urine sample with EPO and additional blood sampling
- the number of blood samples only – for haematological EPO screening
Pre-Comp
In-Comp
Out-Comp
Standard Urine
0
164
210
374
Standard Urine
- Blood
0
5
0
5
Standard Urine
- EPO analysis
0
112
201
313
Standard Urine
- EPO + Blood
4
0
145
149
Blood Only
90
0
0
90
Totals
94
281
556
931
The out-of-competition testing programme was conducted:
- mainly by IDTM: 496 tests
- and by WADA: 60 tests
Special comments on the Moscow World Indoor Championships testing programme:
- doping controls were conducted in good testing conditions,
- 90 blood tests were done pre-competition,
- 162 urine samples were taken in total,
- 89 urine samples that were also analysed for EPO had to be transported to the Lausanne accredited laboratory as the Moscow laboratory could not perform this task.
Murofushi and Noguchi are honoured at Council Dinner
On the eve of the Council meeting (27), the IAAF Dinner was held in the Restaurant Taiko-en which is surrounded by a picturesque traditional Japanese stone and water garden.
The evening began with a minutes silence in memory of Istvan Gyulai, after which President Diack made his welcoming speech, remembering the impressive history of Japanese athletics, and looking forward to the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka.
The formal introduction to an evening in which the guests were entertained by traditional Kabuki music and classical Japanese dance, then concluded with the IAAF honouring Japan’s 2004 Olympic track and field champions, Hammer Thrower Koiji Murofushi and Marathoner Mizuki Noguchi.
President Diack presented both Athens champions with IAAF Plaques but Noguchi, who on 25 September 2005 ran to an Asian marathon record in Berlin, also received two IAAF World Record plaques for the 25km (1:22:13) and 30km (1:38:49) marks which she established en route to her 2:19:12 victory.
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