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Hassan Moustafa remains president of the International Handball Federation (IHF) in the upcoming legislative period. At the Congress in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, 115 eligible voters supported the 64 year old office-bearer, Jeannot Kaiser from Luxembourg received 25 votes. “I am very glad that the Congress honored the effort adduced by the IHF and my humble self”, explained the old and new president after his re-election. Previously, at the XXXII Ordinary Congress, the Egyptian had informed about the activities during the legislative period in the presidents report and pointed out perspectives for the development of World Handball.

The Congress made further important decisions. The delegates affiliated Bolivia, Indonesia, Malawi, Peru, Singapore, St. Kitts and Nevis and Tadzhikistan as full members, the new National Federation of New Zealand has been accepted. Furthermore it was decided to arrange an Extraordinary Congress, where important structural decision should be made.

In addition to President Hassan Moustafa the delegates from 147 countries elected the Spanish Miguel Roca Mas to the 1st vice president. The new secretary general is the Frenchmen Joel Delplanque and Sandi Sola from Croatia was appointed to the treasurer. There were also changes on top of some IHF-Commissions. While Naser Abu Marouq (Kuwait) and Dr Francois Gnamian (Cote d'Ivoire) will continue to preside the Commission for Coaching and Methods (CCM) and the Medical Commission (MC) respectively, the Congress elected the Slovene Leon Kalin to the new chairman of the Commission of Organizing and Competiton (COC). From now on the Playing Rules and Referees Commission (PRC) is managed by the German Manfred Prause and in the Commission for Promotion and Public Relations (CPP) the choice was Fabiano Redondo from Brasil. The Congress elected Zoran Radojicic from Montenegro to the chairman of the Arbitration Tribunal. In contrast Charalambos Lottas from Cyprus continues to preside the Arbitration Commission. The auditors of the new legislative period are Günal Ensari from Turkey and Alexis Manouvrier from France.

(Source: IHF)