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Barcelona, 18 June 2010
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53rd Ordinary ISU Congress
The International Skating Union’s 53rd Ordinary Congress concluded on 18 June in Barcelona(ESP) in front of over 250 delegates from more than 70 ISU Member federations. Four days
earlier the Congress had been officially opened by ISU President Mr. Ottavio Cinquanta, whomade a special acknowledgement of thanks to the ISU’s Spanish Member, Federacion
Española de Deportes De Hielo, presided by Ms. Maria-Teresa Samaranch for theirorganization of the Congress and their emerging role in the development of skating. On Friday
Mr. Cinquanta was re-elected by acclamation.
Key decisions by the Congress:Speed Skating
Several format changes to the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships and ISU
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships were passed.
Congress voted in favor of a better definition of the role of Corner Judges at each curve.
A number of updates to incorporate “state-of-the-art” safety measures and padding solutions
were approved.
Deliberate kicking out of a skate at the finish line, which entails a safety risk, would now leadto disqualification as per the Congress decision.

Short Track
Several proposals to better regulate the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup were passed byCongress.
The Congress approved the Short Track Technical Committee proposals to update safetymeasures and padding solutions.
As of the season 2011/2012 the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships
will no longer be held.
The Congress decided that one of the referees shall monitor the video replay where applicable.

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Single and Pair Skating and Ice Dance
A new format of competition in Ice Dance consisting of two parts/segments: a Short Danceand a Free Dance (as opposed to a Compulsory Dance, Original Dance and Free Dance) wasapproved by Congress.
Congress passed a change to implement a qualifying procedure to effectively reduce thenumber of entries at Championships and has also accepted a reduction of the number ofskaters in the Free Skating.
The ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating (which was successfully inaugurated in April2009) has been integrated into the General Regulations as an ISU Event
The Council, Sports Directorate, Single and Pair Skating and Ice Dance TechnicalCommittees proposed several changes to make the rules consistent across disciplines, thisharmonization of the rules were unanimously approved.
Synchronized Skating
Adjustments to the required elements for the Short Program and Free Skating were approved.
Deductions, Reductions in Free Skating. Several changes to the deductions were passed
including an increase in the severity of deductions for costume and make-up transgressions(among other deduction changes). There will be no more feathers (minus 1 deduction).
Rule Clarifications - a series of proposals were put forward and then approved to clarify thecurrent rules and to harmonize with other Figure Skating disciplines.
The present ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Challenge Cup has been accepted as an
ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships.

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Election Results
The Congress elected the following ISU Office Holders:
1. Council
President:
Ottavio Cinquanta, Italy
1st Vice President: Figure SkatingDavid M. Dore, Canada
2nd Vice President: Speed Skating
Jan Dijkema, Netherlands
Members
Figure Skating:Marie Lundmark, Finland
Junko Hiramatsu, Japan
Phyllis Howard, USA
Tjasa Andrée-Prosenc, Slovenia
Speed Skating
György Martos, Hungary
German Panov, Russia
Li Lan, China
Roland Maillard, Switzerland

2. Technical Committees
Single and Pair Skating
Chair:
Alexander Lakernik, Russia
Members
Fabio Bianchetti, Italy
Rita Zonnekeyn, Belgium
Susan Lynch, Australia

Ice Dance
Chair:
Halina Gordon-Poltorak, PolandMembers:
Robert Joseph Horen, USA

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Gilles Vandenbroeck, France
Alla Shekhovtsova, Russia
Synchronized Skating
Chair:
Christopher Buchanan, Great Britain
Members:
Mika Saarelainen, Finland
Karen Wolanchuk, USA
Philippe Maitrot, FranceSpeed Skating
Chair:
Tron Espeli, Norway
Members
Nick Thometz, USA
Alexander Kibalko, Russia
Jae Seok Choi, Republic of Korea
Short Track Speed Skating
Chair:
Andy Gabel, USA
Members
Stoytcho G. Stoytchev, Bulgaria
Reinier Oostheim, Netherlands
Ji-Hoon Chae, Republic of Korea
4. Disciplinary Commission
Chair: Béatrice Pfister, Switzerland
Members:
Volker Waldeck, Germany
Allan Böhm, Slovak RepublicFred Benjamin, USA
Egbert Schmid, Austria

5. Honorary Members
Newly elected Honorary Vice President
Gerhard Zimmermann, Germany

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Newly Elected Honorary Members
Courtney Jones, O.B.E., Great Britain
Myong-Hi Chang, Republic of Korea
Jim Hawkins, USA
Gerhardt Bubnik, Czech Republic
Ulf Linden, Sweden

For further information including the full Congress agenda, please see www.isu.org .
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