News 2013 IODA Annual General Meeting

2013 IODA Annual General Meeting

The 2013 Annual General Meeting was held in Riva del Garda, Italy on 23rd July

News from the AGM 2013

The following events were confirmed for 2015;

16 March - 5 April. Optimist South American Championship. Paracas, Peru.

16 - 24 July. Optimist European Championship. Pwllheli, Great Britain.

TBC August. Optimist European Team Racing Championship. Ledro, Italy.

16 - 25 August. Optimist World Championship. Kamien Pomorski, Poland.

3 - 12 September. Optimist African Championship. Algiers, Algeria.

23 - 31 October. Optimist Asian Championship. Doha, Qatar.

After 4 years as a member of the Executive Committee, Juhani Soini (FIN) stepped down as Vice President for Europe and Carla Stanley (GBR) took his place. There were also changes to the Regatta Committee and Technical Committee. The full memberships are listed below.

Executive Committee

President PETER BARCLAY (PER)

Vice-President for the Americas JOSE 'QUINO' NIGAGLIONI (PUR)

Vice-President for Europe CARLA STANLEY (GBR)

Vice-President for Asia, Africa and Oceania ABDUR REHMAN ARSHAD (QAT)

Chairman of the Race Committee ALEN KUSTIC IRO (CRO)

Chairman of the Technical Committee CURLY MORRIS IM (IRL)

Regatta Committee

Chairman: ALEN KUSTIC IRO (CRO)

ILKER BAYINDIR IRO IJ (TUR)

ANDRES PEREZ IJ (ESP)

RICARDO NAVARRO IRO (BRA)

Technical Committee

Chairman: CURLY MORRIS IM (IRL)

CONXA ONTIVEROS IM (ESP)

JEAN-LUC GAUTHIER IM (FRA)

JURGEN CLUYTMANS IM (BEL)