The International Racketlon Federation
2006-11-12
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The International Racketlon Federation (FIR) was founded on September 15th 2002. At present it has the following 18 member states:

Austria (represented by Marcel Weigl)
Belgium (Gert Peersman)
Bulgaria (Puzant Kassabian)
Canada (Stephane Cadieux)
Czech Republic (Svatopluk Rejthar)
England (Stuart Foster)
Estonia (Riho Sillaots)
Finland (Martti Vottonen)
France (Nicolas Barbeau)
Germany (Irene Seifert)
Greece (Georgios Georgoudis)
Hong Kong (Chi-Ming Chan)
Hungary (Peter Deak)
The Netherlands (Marc Veldkamp)
Poland (Pawel Kozlowski)
Scotland (Phil Reid)
Sweden (Lennart Eklundh)
USA (Cliff Wenn)

The FIR Council (first elected in October 2005), that governs the FIR between the Annual General Meetings of the Country Representatives contains the following 9 people:

President:
Marcel Weigl, Austria (visions) (marcel.weigl @ racketlon.com)

Vice President:
Georgios Georgoudis, Greece (georgios.georgoudis @ racketlon.com)

Other Members of Council:
Michael Dickert, Austria - World Tour Officer (michi.dickert @ racketlon.com)
Lennart Eklundh, Sweden - Treasurer (lennart.eklundh @ racketlon.com)
Stuart Foster, England - Players Contact Officer (stuart.foster @ racketlon.com)
Raymond Jordan, England - Communication Officer (ray.jordan @ racketlon.com)
Hans Mullamaa, Sweden - Homepage Officer (hans.mullamaa @ racketlon.com)
Phil Reid, Scotland - Ranking Officer (phil.reid @ racketlon.com)
Martti Vottonen, Finland - Marketing Officer (martti.vottonen @ racketlon.com)

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Additional honorary owners of Racketlon.com e-mail addresses, due to continued excellent services offered to Racketlon.com:
Katy Buchanan (katy.buchanan @ racketlon.com)
Keith Lesser (keith.lesser @ racketlon.com)
Rickard Persson (rickard.persson @ racketlon.com)

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Revision History:
2003-05-01: Magnus Eliasson added as Swedish rep #2
2003-06-06: Begium adopted, with representative Gert Peersman
2003-11-29: Germany adopted (as of 18 Sep) with representative Irene Seifert. Greece adopted (as of early December) with representative George Georgoudis.
2004-08-24:
Removed Sweden's representative 2 since Sweden does no longer (as of after Belgian Open) have more than 20% of the IRF votes and is therefore no entitled to a second representative.
Removed Michael Auchterlonie due to over a year of inactivitiy. Which makes Stuart Foster the only English representative.
Replaced John O'Donnell with Stephane Cadieux as Canadian representative.
Updated the e-mail addresses of Gert Peersman and Jari Utriainen
2006-01-01:
Added Poland and the Czech Republic as members of the IRF (these countries were adopted in the summer/autumn of 2005)
Added Hungary and Holland (adopted at GM in Vienna, November 2005).
Modified the list of members of Council in accordance with elections at London AGM, October 2005 and in accordance with allocation of tasks at Vienna CM, November 2005.
2006-01-24:
Listed the names of the country representatives
2006-02-18:
Added the (racketlon.com) e-mail addresses of the council
Added "additional honorary owners of Racketlon.com e-mail addresses" Katy, Keith and Rickard
2006-10-05:
Changed the acronym from IRF to FIR according to a GM decision (see newsitem).
2006-11-12:
Added Hong Kong and Estonia (adopted by an on-line General Meeting in the beginning of September)
2006-12-27:
Added the USA (adopted by the AGM in Vienna at the end of November)

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