{"id":1363,"date":"2012-06-27T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-06-30T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T09:18:08","slug":"24-6-12-results-of-the-11th-ehf-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"24.6.2012: Results of the 11th EHF Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> Ordinary Congress of the EHF took place in Monte Carlo on 22\/23.6.12.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Brihault\/France was elected President and Arne Elovsson as Vice-President. A \u2018Women\u2019s Handball Board\u2019 was introduced, underlining the importance of women in Handball. Poland (men) and Sweden (women) were awarded with the European Championship in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 the EHF congress elected 28 officials, 4 years later 38 and in 2012 a record number of 49 officials! The exact results you find on the EHF webpage.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting detail: Germany and Spain did not succeed to place their candidates in the government of European Handball, the EHF Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>German Reiner Witte (Vice-President of the German Federation, President of the German League, President of the European Professional Handball League Association and PHB member) failed twice, first trying to become Vice-President, later to become ordinary Executive Committee member.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Jesus Guerrero also failed twice, first trying to become member of the Executive Committee, later to become chairman of the important Competitions Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly Pedrag Boskovic from Montenegro became Executive Committee member, with the record number of 19 votes! Helgo Magnusdottir from Island became the first lady in this important body.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenian Leopold Kalin, the brother of IHF Competition Commission chairman Leon Kalin, was elected as chairman of the EHF Competition Commission. He won the election against Spanish Jesus Guerrero.<\/p>\n<p>Makedonian Dragan Nachevski became successor of Hungarian Sandor Andorka as chief of European refereeing. In the second ballot he defeated Jiri Konecny from Chekia.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all\u00a0elected officials! GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th Ordinary Congress of the EHF took place in Monte Carlo on 22\/23.6.12. Jean Brihault\/France was elected President and Arne Elovsson as Vice-President. A \u2018Women\u2019s Handball Board\u2019 was introduced, underlining the importance of women in Handball. Poland (men) and Sweden (women) were awarded with the European Championship in 2016. In 2004 the EHF congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}