WDFPF WORLD CONGRESS 2016

MINUTES of the 2016 World Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation, Inc. Congress
Oktober 30th, 2015; Coference Hall Hotel Liberty, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy.

15:30 :  Registration of Nations

Quorum: 25% of the voting membership (members of the Executive Committee are not counted in calculating the quorum, although they have full voting privileges).   For voting purposes, a majority determines the outcome except for amendments to the Constitution and or to the Rulebook; in those situations, 2/3 of the voting members must vote affirmative in order to pass the motion/proposal.                 
The total number of the WDFPF voting membership:   21  . 
Voting members present :    21 .  
The number of Executive Committee members:   2  . 
25% of the total membership will equal:   5  .   
2/3 of the voting members will equal:   14   .  


This meeting is OFFICIAL.


Presentation of the present nations and voting members:

 Belgium: Backelant Wim, SudarmintoIndra, Gregg Aert

 Gr.Britain: Patricia Reeves

 Moldova: Teliucov Serghei, Teliucov Ina, Gogu Victor

 Germany (mail): Peschel Markus, Forner Frank, Killian Rebekka

 Russia: Segal Yulia

 Ireland: Chris Richards

 France: Dheilly Jean- Claude, Dheilly Thnuelle, Delaporte Sylvie

 Italy: Bianko Ivano, Bosco Marko, Garolla Mauro

 Ukraine: Ivanov Alexandr, Dnisoc Sergey, Skripilev Alexandr


16:00 :

AGENDA MOTIONS:
No proposals from nations for the congress

Welcome from WDFPF committee:

Year review 2016: President, Wim Backelant:
The 2016 Year was a very special for WDFPF. We were required to change the place of WC Powerlifting from Ireland to Italy. Great thanks to Italian Federation for picking up and organising the competition so fast.

  • Unfortunately, because of the problems in France the WC Single have had to move venue. The WC Single will be in Antwerp, same place and hotel as in 2013.
  • Great thanks to the organiser of EC Powerlifting in Western-Super-Mare. It was very good competion. Every day we finished very early. Let’s continue this tradition
  • The balance of WDFPF is 800 Euro. We used money for extra drugg tests, documents, certificates.
  • Due to the fact that Mariana refused to register our federation in Germany we were obliged quickly put the WDFPF chair from Germany to Belgium and change the Constitution and Rulebook. The previous ones were written according the USA laws, that were not compatable with Europe registration. New Constitution and Rule book is 90% the same as an old. Constitution and rulebook are extant from 01 January 2017.

  • Major changes
    • At International events the inspection of kit is not mandatory. 
It is the responsibility of the National Technical Secretary of all Nations to
ensure that their lifters are wearing suitable equipment prior to or at I
nternational events.Where lifters are unsure if an item meets the required 
criteria there will be a Technical Officer who will inspect as required. 
Where a lifter is found to enter the event with equipment that would otherwise
fail to meet the required the lifter disqualified.

WDFPF qualification Totals & Scores apply to World Championship events both 
Full Power and Single Lifts and European Full Power and Single Lifts.
If the Chief Referee observes the lifters head no longer in contact with 
the bench, he shall raise their arm indicating to the side referees that 
the head has come off the bench. In such case the side referees will 
automatically give a no lift. This is the ONLY occasion during the bench 
press the Chief Referee is allowed to raise their hand/arm

Knee sleeves may be worn in the EQUIPPED Division only. 
They must not more than 30cm in total length. 
They must be made of a 1 Ply material

From now on NO TYPE of shirt that is considere compressive is allowed to be 
worn at WDFPF events. Thia is defined as any type of shirt that is figure 
hugging and has elastic properties

EQUIPPED MEANS EQUIPPED – any lifter entering the equipped competition must 
be equipped as indicated below:
1.Squat – A squat suit or Knee wraps/Sleeves or a combination of both
2.Bench Press – A recognised Bench Shirt is MANDATORY
3. Deadlift – A DL suit. Knee wraps/Sleeves or a combination of both

FULL POWER OPENING LIFTS
In order to promote a standart of lifting at international events not 
only must the TOTAL of all opening lifts meet the required total BUT ALL 
of the lifts entered must be a minimum of the SL qualifying lifts.

    Competition proposals for 2017 - 2018 

    Bid Presentations  2017  
European Champ. POWERLIFTING         Biella (Piedmont, North Italy) 29-30 April 2017        
World Champ.    SINGLE EVENT         Antwerp, Belgium 2-3-4 June 2017

European Champ. SINGLE EVENT 
We have two candidates for organising the European Single Championships in 2017 : Ukrain, Moldova
At the congress it was not deceided who would get the championship , because of missing information.
Both countries are to provide the Executive Commettee with a COMPLETE competition file no later than 16 December 2016.

After receiving the info the WDFPF will organise a postal ballot, and let the member nations decide were the competion will be held. 
The result of the postal ballot will be published at 16 January 2017.

World Champ.       POWERLIFTING        Boston, USA 3-4-5 November 2017                                                

Intension bids (voting on congress 2017 ) Full information about the competitions must be present by the organisers
Bid Presentations  2018  
European Champ. POWERLIFTING      Scotland
World Champ.    SINGLE EVENT      Italy/Malta
European Champ. SINGLE EVENT      England/ Ireland
World Champ.    POWERLIFTING      Scotland

Intension bids ( voting on congress 2018 )
Bid Presentations  2019     
European Champ. POWERLIFTING 
World Champ.    SINGLE EVENT      USA/ Italy
European Champ. SINGLE EVENT      Wales  
World Champ.    POWERLIFTING      Italy

    End of congress

     
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