Asian Triathlon Confederation Secretary General Office22th ASTC Congress Minutes
Light House Hotel Meeting Room, Subic Bay Freeport,Philippinesth26 April 2013 at 2:00 P.M.
EB Members Present:
Mr. Yu Kyung-Sun (President)
Mr. Tomas Carrasco Jr. (Sr. VP)
Mr. Masao Nakayama (VP)
Datuk Balwant Singh Kler (Sec. Gen.)
Mr. David Hoong (Treasurer)
EB members:
Dr. Liou Yu-Feng
Ms. Ruth Hunt
Mr. Vijitr Sittinawin
Mr. Yuriy Solovyev
Mr. Wang Xuanqing
Mr. M. Sharipdjan
Mr. Omar Bakar
Ms. Jin Wen
EB members absent with apologies: Ms. Surekha RamachandaranCongress Delegates:
Bangladesh: Mr. Md. Mahmudul Karim
China: Mr. Chen Ziaoran,
Chinese Taipei: Mr. Andrew Ta and Ms. Sonia Peng
Hong Kong – China: Mr. Philip Penaloza and Mr. Telia Cheung
India: Mr. Khrisnamurthy Rajenderan
Islamic Republic of Iran: Brig. Gen. M. Ali Sabour and Mr. Mahdi Hosseini
Japan: Mr. Takao Kokubu, Ms. Kiriyo Suzuk and Mr. Toshi Nakayama
Jordan: Mr. Lawrence Fanous
Kazakhstan: Ms. Lyubov Shpariy
Korea: Mr. Kim In-Gyu and Mr. Ki Woo-Kyung
Lebanon: Mr. Mahmoud Dib and Mr. Bedros Logokian
Macau – China: Mr. Kenta Ando (did not signed attendance)
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Maldives: Mr. Abdulla Ibrahim and Mr. Hussain Rasheed
Malaysia: Mr. Peter Lau and Ms. MelodyTan
Mongolia: Mr. Byambaa Tangaambaatar and Mr. Davaasambuu Jargalsaikhan.
Nepal: Mr. Dhaneshar Prajapati and Mr. Nilendra Shrestha
Philippines: Mr. Mon Marchan, Ms. Lourder Carrasco. Ms. Roslina “Ting” Joson andMr. Red DumukSingapore: Mr. Roland Liew
Sri Lanka: Mr. Sam Wickramasinghe
Thailand: Mr. Niwat Imong
Uzbekistan: Mr. Blokhin Leonid
Members Absent with apologies: Cambodia, Indonesia and Pakistan (Visa problem
reached manila Airport but could not enter)
Absent without informing: Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Oman and Syria
New Member: Kuwait absent as arriving only on 27th April
Observers: Mr. Satoshi Takasaki (ASTC Official Photographer)

2. Roll call:President asked the Sec. Gen. for the roll call, who informed the delegates out of 27, 21
members were present. Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan (could not entered as visa
problem returned back from Manila airport), Oman and Syria were absent. There are two
associate members and that is Lebanon and Kuwait only arriving on the 27th.
3. President Speech:
Mr. Yu welcomed the entire delegates to the Congress and thanked everyone for theirsupport to him last year when he stood for ITU President at Auckland Congress. On
behalf of the ASTC he recorded his deepest appreciation to the Mr. Tomas Carrasco,President TRAP and his staff, local Organizing Committee, for their dedication in
preparing the 21st Asian Triathlon Championships.
He then asked the Secretary General to carry on with the agenda.
4. Confirmation of the 21st Congress held at Tateyama City, Japan last year:
Secretary General then asked for the congress minutes to be confirmed, which had been
sent earlier to all members last year, again with congress notice with agenda and also
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Asian Triathlon Confederation Secretary General Officeappeared in the ASTC annual report for 2012 on pages 4 to 7. India moved the minutes tobe confirmed and this was seconded by Philippines and duly accepted.

5. Matter Arising from the 18th Congress Minutes:
None
6. Accepting New Members:
President asked Secretary General if there were any new members and was informed thatLebanon and Kuwait had fulfilled all the requirements and were our associate members.
President then asked the congress to accept the memberships of Lebanon Triathlon
Federation and all delegates were in agreement of accepting Lebanon. Lebanon Triathlon
Federation becomes the 28th ASTC full member. The President then asked the congressto accept Kuwait Triathlon Committee and all delegates were in agreement to accept
KTC. Kuwait Triathlon becomes the 29th of ASTC full member.
7. Secretary General Report:
Secretary General informed delegates that his report was on page 8 of the annual report.
He thanked the delegates for their support towards him as Secretary General. President
asked delegates if anyone had questions for the Secretary General, there were none.

8. Treasurer Report:
Mr. David Hoong informed that his report is also in the annual report on pages 9 to 10
but the accounts are now with the chartered Auditor and are being audited and theaccount that he has presented are not audited one. But once the accounts are audited hewill circulate the audited account to all. He then went on to explain the expenses andbalance sheet. Thailand proposed the accounts to be accepted and all the delegates agreed
with the proposal, therefore the accounts were then passed by the congress.

9. ITU Sport Director Mr. Gergely Markus Presentation: Mr. Gergely took almost 55
minutes in his presentation and he explained how ITU is helping ASTC and he told thedelegates that his presentation will be given to the Secretary General who will then pass it
to all the NF members.

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Action: Has been taken and the full information was passed to all the NFs on the 4th ofMay 2013.
10. Report by ASTC – ITU Sport Development Officer:
Mr. Ki informed that his report is on page 12 to 13 and he briefed the delegates at length
on how the selection is done by ITU etc. His report was then accepted by the congressdelegate. He has noted that with the huge number of participating juniors and YOG
aspirants, this ATC will be biggest to date for our young athletes close to 100 in number
especially increase in 13 – 16 years old which is a good sign for ASTC.

11: Technical Committee Chairman Report:
Mr. Omar Bakar informed that his report is on the inside back cover. He hoped that allmembers should cooperate with him by giving him the dates of their events like Asian
Cup and ITU events by end of November this year as he has to give our calendar to ITU
by the first week of December.

12. Report by Para Triathlon Committee:
Mr. Philip Chairman of the committee briefed the congress delegates on the committee
term of reference and also the logo, which was accepted and he was told to fine tune thelogo and keeping in mind the protocol of ASTC when drawing the logo.
13. Resolution and Motions:
Secretary General informed that he received resolution from Chinese Taipei. To allow
only 2 athletes per country for elites, U23 and juniors for all ATC events. The resolution
was discussed at the EB meeting and he asked Dr. Liou to brief the congress delegates.
Dr. Liou briefed his resolution to the delegates. It was then proposed by Mr. Red Dumuk
that the EB should study it and then bring it up in the next congress. It was accepted thatEB members to discuss it and then bring it up in the next congress.
14: To appoint host for 21st Asian Triathlon Championships, Asian Duathlon andAsian Aquathlon Championships 2014: Secretary General informed that he sent out
circulars to all member to become host for our ATC ADC and AAC for 201 but he has
not received any response from any one for ATC but Sri Lanka has offered to host ADC
and AAC next year. The Secretary General informed that during the EB meeting thismorning it was felt that since we will be having, Asian Games, Asian Beach Games andCommonwealth Games and also YOG, it was felt to follow the 2010 since we did not
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Asian Triathlon Confederation Secretary General Officehave any ATC in 2010. It was accepted that there will be no ATC in 2014. But Under 23and juniors will be held in Kazakhstan during the YOG selection. Kazakhstan will
expand their won bid to host the YOG Asian qualifiers in June 2014 in Burabay toinclude the elite U23 and juniors Asian Championships, similar what Subic Bay did in2010 when there was no ATC held because of the Asian Games and ABG.
15. Vacancy in the EB: Sec. Gen brought up the case of Ms. Surekha who was absent
from 4 EB meetings which disqualified her to carry on as EB member. It was decided by
the EB to let her nominate someone to take her place. As such he wants the congress toapprove the decision by the EB. There was no one who said anything, which mean thedecision by the EB is accepted by the congress.
16. Any other business:
None
The meeting ended at 3.52 P.M. with a vote of thanks to the chair.

………………………..
Datuk Balwant Singh Kler
Secretary General ASTC

Confirmed:……………………..
Mr. Yu Kyung-Sun
President ASTC

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