EspañolLIST OF SUBMITTED CANDIDATES FOR ELECTIONS AT THE 4th ITF CONGRESS TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 in TAMPERE, FINLAND
The ITF Electoral Committee consisting of GM Fred Akard (Chair), GM Coos van den Heuvel (Deputy Chair), Mst. Ray Nicolaisen (Member) concluded on June 22, 2023 that all of the candidates who have submitted documents for the ITF Election 2023 have met and passed the requirements based on the ITF Electoral Code and are now approved to move forward to the election in Finland 2023.
The candidates for the closed list and the individual candidates (members at large) are presented below in detail.
CLOSED List for positions of the ITF Board of Directors (Art. 34 lit. a) to d) of the ITF Statutes)
Candidate for President
Grand Master Paul Weiler
proposed by ITF Deutschland
(Germany)
Candidate for Senior Vice President
Grand Master Clint Norman
proposed by Canadian
Taekwon-Do Federation
International (Canada)
Candidate for Vice President
Master Annick Sofie L van Driessche
proposed by ITF Belgium (Belgium)
Candidate for Treasurer
Master Leonardo Tufic Oros Duek
proposed by Israel Association
of Traditional Taekwon-Do ITF
(Israel)
List of individual candidates for positions of the ITF Board of Directors (Art. 34 lit. e) Members at Large of the ITF Statutes)
Master Mark Banicevich
proposed by International
Taekwon-Do Foundation of
New Zealand Inc (New Zealand)
Master Abelardo Benzaquén
proposed by Federacion de
Taekwon-Do de la Republica
Argentina – FETRA ITF (Argentina)
Master Brian Buck
proposed by Asociación
Costarricanese de Taekwon-Do ITF
(Costa Rica)
Master Niklas Enander
proposed by Swedish ITF
Federation (Sweden)
Sbn Francisco Ferrando
proposed by Federacion Espanola
de Taekwon-Do ITF (Spain)
Master Luis Gato-Gato
proposed by Asociacion National
de Taekwon-Do de Puerto Rico
(Puerto Rico)
Master Philip Lear
proposed by ITF England (England)
Bsbn Martina Lenhardtová
proposed by Slovak Union of
Taekwon-Do (Slovakia)
Master Nurisa Mambatalieva
proposed by Kyrgyzstan Taekwon-Do
ITF Federation (Kyrgyzstan)
Sbn Cosmin Oprescu
proposed by Romanian Taekwon-Do
ITF Federation (Romania)
The application period for positions of the future ITF Board of Directors has closed. For the Electoral Committee, three members have been appointed according to Electoral Code Article 3. The committee consists of:
1. GM Fred Akard (Chair) – USA
2. GM Coos van den Heuvel (Deputy Chair) – Netherlands
3. Mst. Ray Nicolaisen (Member) – Norway
The Committee will check all the candidates’ papers for eligibility and then announce the result.
There is a “Closed list” (candidates for President, Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Treasurer) and 10 individual candidates for the 5 “Member-at-Large” positions.
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