# International Fair Play Committee

The International Fair Play Committee (French: Comité international pour le Fair-Play), abbreviated as the CIFP or the IFPC, is a not for profit international non-governmental organisation which serves to foster sportsmanship in international competition. It presents awards annually at the World Fair Play Awards to recognise acts of fair play carried out by sportspeople or teams. The awards ceremony is held in various locations and has been broadcast on television in Europe.

## History

The CIFP was established in France in 1963 by members of UNESCO, ISPA [de; fa; fr; it; lt; ru; sah], ICSSPE, FIFA, FIBA, FILA and the International Rugby Board. The committee presented its first award two years later: Eugenio Monti, an Italian bobsleigher, was the recipient. The spare part Monti had given to rival Tony Nash at the 1964 Winter Olympics had enabled the Briton to go on to win the gold medal.

## Awards
### Annual awards

Awards are presented at the annual World Fair Play Awards Ceremony in three categories:
* For an act of fair play by complying with both the written and unwritten rules of sport.
* For a general attitude of sportsmanship throughout a sports career by demonstrating an outstanding and constant spirit of fair play.
* For an activity aiming to promote fair play such as the organisation of national or local campaigns, lectures, books, articles or reports in the media.
The trophies given in recognition of the different achievements in each category are:
* Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy – the "trophy for action", awarded since 1965 for gestures of fair play in which an athlete impedes their performance to aid a fellow competitor.
* Jean Borotra World Fair Play Trophy – the "trophy for the career", awarded since 1973 to recognise athletes who have displayed fair play throughout their careers.
* Willi Daume [de; fi; it; mg; pl; sv] World Fair Play Trophy – the "trophy for promotion", awarded since 1995 to a person or organisation that has promoted the spirit of fair play.
Since 2013, the CIFP has, under the auspices of the IOC President, also given out the
* Jacques Rogge World Fair Play Trophy for The Youth – the "trophy for the youth", in recognition of junior athletes committed to the ideal of fair play.
Further to these annual trophies, the CIFP gives out diplomas and, since 1977, letters of congratulations to other sportspeople and organisations who have shown exceptional good sportsmanship.
Since 2014, the CIFP has awarded a Special World Fair Play Trophy "to such public figures that have significantly supported the development of sport – with no personal interest attached." The first recipients of the Special World Fair Play Trophy were Mintimer Shaimiev and Alisher Usmanov.

### Occasional awards

The CIFP will on occasion give out Fair Play Awards. These were first presented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Among the recipients are:
* 2013: Russian middle-distance runner Yuliya Zaripova received the CIFP Fair Play Award for the 2013 Summer Universiade.
* 2016: Norway men's national handball team received the Rio 2016 Fair Play Award for great sportsmanship during their semifinal match against Germany on 29 January at the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship. Nikki Hamblin and Abbey D'Agostino received the Rio 2016 Fair Play Award after colliding with each other on the track during the 5000 m event and assisting each other to continue the race.
* 2017: High jumper Ruth Beitia of Spain received the CIFP Fair Play Award for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London.
* 2020: Skateboarders Sakura Yosozumi and Cocona Hiraki of Japan, Brazilians Dora Varella and Yndiara Asp, Britain's Sky Brown, Australian Poppy Olsen and Bryce Wettstein, USA were awarded the Tokyo 2020 Fair Play Award.
* 2021: Charne Eileen Swart and Veronica Vancardo received a CIFP Fair Play Award for the 2021 Summer World University Games.
* 2022: French cyclist Romain Bardet received the CIFP Fair Play Award for the 2022 Giro d'Italia. Andorran runner Nahuel Carabaña received the CIFP Fair Play Award for the 2022 European Championships. Quatari high jumper Mutaz Barsham received the CIFP Fair Play Award for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
* 2023: Ethiopian long-distance runner Letesenbet Gidey received the CIFP Fair Play Award as part of the 2023 World Athletics Awards for the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Colombian judoka Erika Lasso [az; es] received the CIFP Fair Play Award for the 2023 Pan American Games.
* 2024: Canadian gymnast Ellie Black received the Paris 2024 Fair Play Award.

### Trophy recipients

| Year | Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy (Trophy for action) | Jean Borotra World Fair Play Trophy (Trophy for the career) | Willi Daume World Fair Play Trophy (Trophy for promotion) | Jacques Rogge World Fair Play Trophy for The Youth |
| 1964 | Eugenio Monti | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 1965 | Willye White West Ham and TSV Munich and István Zsolt |
| 1966 | Stevan Horvat |
| 1967 | István Gulyás |
| 1968 | Japan Men's Olympic Football Team |
| 1969 | Francisco Buscató Pedro Zaballa |
| 1970 | Ryszard Szurkowski |
| 1971 | Meta Antenen |
| 1972 | Stan Smith | Emiliano Rodríguez |
| 1973 | Great Britain's men's team pursuit-team : Michael Bennett Rik Evans Ian Hallam William Moore | Bobby Charlton |
| 1974 | Claude Ravonel | Lia Manoliu |
| 1975 | Victor Niederhoffer | Bob Mathias Emil Zátopek |
| 1976 | André Bastin | Jenő Kamuti |
| 1977 | Japanese spectators during the 1977 Volleyball World Cup (Men's, Women's) | Gustav Kilian [ca; de; es; fr; nl] John Naber |
| 1978 | Tamás Wichmann | Gareth Edwards |
| 1979 | Philippe Roux | Sven Thofelt |
| 1980 | Stefan Branth [sv] and Gert Pettersson | Giacinto Facchetti Stanley Rous |
| 1981 | Not awarded | Mohammed Gammoudi Klaus Steinbach |
| 1982 | Mats Wilander | Not awarded |
| 1983 | İsmet Karababa | Aleksandr Medved |
| 1984 | Mohamed Ali Rashwan Dariusz Zawadzki | Not awarded |
| 1985 | Mokhtar Mokhtar | René Bazennerye John B. Kelly Jr. Juha Mieto Balbir Singh Sr. |
| 1986 | István Vaskuti and János Sarusi Kis | Stanley Matthews |
| 1987 | Cleveland Stroud | Vijay Amritraj |
| 1988 | Soviet–Canadian 1988 Polar Bridge Expedition / Teófilo Stevenson | Not awarded |
| 1989 | Jean-Michel Henry | Věra Čáslavská Chris Evert Ken Rosewall Pirmin Zurbriggen |
| 1990 | Ivan Lawler and Graham Burns | Dino Zoff |
| 1991 | Racing Club de France (rugby team) Robert Veghelyi | Arthur Ashe |
| 1992 | Eddie Van Hoof | Raymond Poulidor Raisa Smetanina |
| 1993 | FIFA The people of Norway at the XVII Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer | Not awarded |
| 1994 | Francesco Panetta Justin McDonald | Not awarded | Zofia Żukowska [pl] |
| 1995 | Sergey Bubka Laurent Jalabert | Nelson Mandela Jean-François Lamour Vreni Schneider | Albert II, Prince of Monaco |
| 1996 | Not awarded | Ludvík Daněk Stefan Edberg | Erica Terpstra Mario Vázquez Raña |
| 1997 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Ludvík Daněk Konishiki Yasokichi |
| 1998 | Giovanni Soldini [fr; it] | Brigitte Deydier | Lithuanian Fair Play Committee and Artūras Poviliūnas [lt] |
| 1999 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Panathlon International |
| 2000 | Not awarded | Rolland Boitelle | Students and teachers from Sydney and New South Wales |
| 2001 | Simone Moro | Eusebio da Silva Ferreira | Kipchoge Keino |
| 2002 | Denmark national football team | Mária Mračnová | Albert Jannes Buisman |
| 2003 | Tana Umaga | Wayne Gretzky | Janusz Piewcewicz |
| 2004 | Alexei Nemov Markus Rogan | Miguel Induráin | Bruno Grandi |
| 2005 | Sébastien Loeb | Pete Sampras Éva Székely | Not awarded |
| 2006 | Hilal Coşkuner | Gérard Saillant [fr; it; pt] Herb Elliott | Andras Kő [hu] |
| 2007 | Graham Henry | Jan Železný Mary Glen-Haig | Shaozu Zhang |
| 2008 | Ivan Bulaja and Petar Cupać and Pavle Kostov | Edoardo Mangiarotti | UEFA |
| 2009 | Elvan Abeylegesse Ammanuel Merkorios Giuseppe Pillon | Saúl Mendoza Bill Slater | Klaus Klaeren [de; es] Pál Schmitt Herbert Ehlen |
| 2010 | Gao Feng Amin Motevaselzadeh Darius Draudvila | Edwin Moses | Tegla Loroupe Walther Tröger [de] |
| 2011 | Erhan Yavuz [tr] | Walter Kilger Laura Vaca | Erika Miklósa Pál Szekeres |
| 2012 | Jochen Wollmert | Sebastian Coe | Carlos Gonçalves | Christiana Pavlou Fenerbahçe S.K. U–15 team |
| 2013 | Martin Damsbo | Mohamed Abdelaziz Ghonem | International Children's Games Committee | Hana Dragojevic "Triqui Children" Team |
| 2014 | Łukasz Kubot | Javier Zanetti | Ligue Francophone de Hockey | Nilufar Muhiddinova |
| 2015 | Ruth Chebitok Ashley Liew | Not awarded | Tadeusz Olszański [pl] | Denis Samoylov |
| 2016 | Jorge Ariel Rodriguez | Jacques Rogge | Turkish Olympic Committee Fair Play Committee | Junior Men’s Épée Team of Ukraine |
| 2017 | Thomas Baroukh and Thibaut Hacot [es; fr; vo] and Thibault Colard | Jacques Ferran | Panathlon Wallonie-Bruxelles [fr] | Valerio Catoia |
| 2018 | Eivind Vold [es; no] Fabio Caramel | Azad Rahimov David Smetanine | Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and UAE Wrestling and Judo Federation and International Judo Federation and EuroNews | Péter László Gasztonyi |
| 2019 | Roger Casugay | Carles Puyol | Turkish National Olympic Committee | Giovanni Borgonovo |
| 2020 | AEK Athens F.C. | Nikita Simonyan Franco Ascani | Maxime Mbanda City of Brussels | Not awarded |
| 2021 | Denmark national football team | Mauro Borghi | Wenke Thewis | Giovanni Lava |
| 2022 | Kai Verbij Sheila Liliana Tejeda | Kathrine Switzer | Christian Hinterberger Stop Racism in Sport and Panathlon Wallonie-Bruxelles [fr] | Japan women's national under-20 football team |

## Presidents

* Jean Borotra, CIFP founder, 1963–1988
* Willi Daume [de; fi; it; mg; pl; sv], 1988–1996
* Louis Guirandou-N'Diaye [fr], 1996–1999
Since 2000, Jenő Kamuti has served as the CIFP president.
Honorary Presidents
* Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, past President of the IOC (1974)
* René Maheu, the sixth Director-General of UNESCO (1974)
* Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the IOC (1981)
* Jean Borotra, "Honorary President – Founder" (1988)
* Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC (2003)
* Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO (2005)