Newcomers elected to fill positions on FIS Council

By Published On: May 30th, 2008Comments Off on Newcomers elected to fill positions on FIS Council

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Nations represented on the FIS Council remained unchanged but a number of newcomers will fill the positions
    Werner Wörndle will represent Austria in place of Peter Schroecksnadel who announced his retirement Thursday night. Alain Methiaz of France will replace Michel Vion and Giovanni Morzenti of Italy will take the seat from retiring Italian council member Gaetano Coppi. The United States’ Bill Marolt will continue as a vice president of the FIS.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Nations represented on the FIS Council remained unchanged but a number of newcomers will fill the positions
    Werner Wörndle will represent Austria in place of Peter Schroecksnadel who announced his retirement Thursday night. Alain Methiaz of France will replace Michel Vion and Giovanni Morzenti of Italy will take the seat from retiring Italian council member Gaetano Coppi.
    The United States’ Bill Marolt will continue as a vice president of the FIS.
    Schroecksnadel, who claimed that he wanted to be the leader of the Schladming organizing committee, surprised the delegates here when he announced his decision not to seek re-election. His departure may have been hastened by the federation’s difficulties with doping violations at the Torino Winter Olympic Games as the Austrian Olympic movement asked for and received his resignation from their Olympic committee.
    He was replaced by Wörndle, a longtime fixture in Austrian alpine skiing. Formerly the head coach of the Stams Academy, Wörndle was the head coach of the Austrian ski team from 1987 to 1996. Most recently he has run the national ski instructors academy in St. Christof am Arlberg.
    Four other candidates were not elected to the council. Verdran Pavlek from Croatia failed by eight votes. Also failing to gain enough votes were: David Howden of New Zealand, Ivo Menev of Bulgaria and Toomas Savi of Estonia. — G.B. Jr.
  
FIS Council electees
Name                  Nation          Votes

Patrick Smith        Canada         112
Sverre Seeberg    Norway        111
Carl Eric Stalberg    Sweden        109
Yoshiro Ito        Japan            109    
Jaakko Holkeri    Finland        107
Bill Marolt        United States        105
Sung-Won Lee    Korea            104
Leonid Tyagachev    Russia            104
Fritz Wagnerberger    Germany        104
Janez Kocijancic    Slovenia        100
Pablo Rosenkjer    Argentina        98
Werner Wörndle    Austria            92
Eduardo Roldan    Spain            91
Alain Methiaz        France            88
Giovanni Morzenti     Italy            84
Milan Jirasek        Czech             77

Failed to get elected
Verdran Pavlek    Croatia            65
David Howden    New Zealand        53
Ivo Menev        Bulgaria        52
Toomas Savi        Estonia            37

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