2017 Congress
Presentation
Each year the ITRA's Annual General Meeting is the highlight of the life of our association. It physically, or through video-conferencing, brings together all the elected members of the ITRA (national representatives or steering committee members) and is open to everybody.
The Annual General Meeting defines, orients and controls the ITRA's general policy. It hears, each year, reports on the association's moral and financial situation, and on its diverse activities. It approves the previous year's accounts and votes on the forthcoming year's budget.
The 2017 Annual General Meeting will take place in Badia Prataglia, Italy, on June 11th 2017, the day after the 50km Trail World Championships.
Agenda
8:30 to 9:00 - Reception
9:00 to 10:00 - 1st Part
9:00 Introduction, moral report - Michel Poletti president
9:15 Financial report - Janet Ng treasurer
9:30 Approval vote of the 2016 final results
9:40 Adoption vote of the 2017 provisional budget
9:50 Modification of the Statutes in order to set up the ITRA's address back in Switzerland
10:00 to 10:30 - Election of the Steering Committee - 1st round
10:00 Introduction, voting system and candidates - Michel Poletti president
10:15 opening on internet of the 1st round
10:45 closing of the 1st round
10:30 to 11:20 - 2nd part
10:30 Health Commission report - Patrick Basset president of the Health commission
10:40 Performance index ranking and race evaluation report - Meghan Detourbet Project Coordinator
10:50 Race quality evaluation system proposal - José Santos vice president
11:00 Safety commission report - Michel Poletti president
10:10 Environment commission report - Nic Borman vice president
11:20 to 11:40 - Publication of the results of the 1st round and break
11:40 to 12:30 - 3d part
11:40 International relations report - José Santos vice president
11:50 Relation with IAU and Trail World Championship organization report - Enrico Pollini vice president
12:00 State of the relation with IAAF report - Michel Poletti president
12:10 Questions to ITRA
12:30 to 13:00 Election of the Steering Committee - 2d round
12:30 Introduction, voting system and candidates - Michel Poletti president
12:45 opening on internet of the 2d round
13:15 closing of the 2d round
13:45 Publication of the results of the 2d round
The new President and the new Executive Board will be elected within the Steering Committee during the first meeting that will be held after the AGM.
Who participates in the AGM?
Those people present at the AGM
- Founding members : link to the list
- Institutional members : list of candidates and institutional members elected below.
- National organiser representatives : link to the page « national representatives»
- National runner representatives : link to the page « national representatives »
Other participants
- Steering committee
- Commission presidents
- Members of the commissions and all ITRA members may attend as observers (request to formulate to be made to contact@itra.run in the case of a physical presence, or the possibility of following the AGM live via the internet.)
Who can vote and how are the votes organised ?
Possession of votes
- Institutional Members : 10 votes per member
- Organiser member representatives : the number of votes is determined by the number of organiser members from the country they represent
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For the organisers : 4 votes between 1 & 5 members8 votes between 6 & 20 members 12 votes between 21 & 35 members 16 votes between 36 & 50 members 20 votes above 500 members |
For the runners : 2 votes between 1 & 5 members |
- Founding members : 1 vote per member
Organisation of votes
The votes are organised by a ballot with a simple majority result from valid voting slips.
Election of the steering committee
Following the adoption of the new ITRA statutes (link to statutes) as of the Annual General Meeting held in Braga (Portugal) on October 29th 2016, a new steering committee will be elected for 4 years during the Annual General Meeting on June 11th 2017.
Composition of the steering committee
- 2 founding members
- 8 institutional members
- 8 organiser members
- 4 sports members (runners)
The president of the IAAF or their representative is an ex-officio member of the steering committee.
Who can be a candidate?
Any founding member may propose their candidature for the steering committee. Other candidates obligatorily, have to apply for the category « Institutional members » or « Organiser members » or « Sports members ».
In order to be a candidate for the categories « Institutional members » or « Organiser members », a candidate must occupy a managerial function, elected or salaried, centred within the member of the category concerned.
In order to be a candidate for the « Sports member category », the candidate must themselves be a Sports Member.
Candidature will open between May 15 and 25 2017.
They must be submitted by email to contact@itra.run.
List of candidates :
The list of candidates will be published here as from May 15 2017.
Institutional Members (8 seats) :
| Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo | José Antonio Martins | FERNANDES | BRA | |
| Danish Athletic Federation | Jakob | LARSEN | DEN | |
| Real Federacion Española de Atletismo | Pablo | VEGA | ESP | Link |
| French Athletic Federation | Michel | HUERTAS | FRA | |
| Athletics Federation of India | Madhukant | PATHAK | IND | |
| Federazione Italiana Di Atletica Leggera | Tito | TIBERTI | ITA | Link |
| Icelandic Athletic Federation | Fridleifur | FRIDLEIFSSON | ISL | |
| Polish Athletics Association | Piotr | BĘTKOWSKI | POL | Link |
| Associacao Trail Running Portugal | Rui | PINHO | POR | |
| USA Track & Field | Richard | BOLT | USA | |
| Confederación Atlética del Uruguay | Daniel | PÉREZ GARRIDO | URU |
Organizer Members (8 seats) :
| Mariano | ALVAREZ | PATAGONIA RUN | ARG | Link |
| Thomas | BOSNJAK | AUSTRIA TRAIL RUNNING ASSOCIATION | AUT | Link |
| Josef | MAYERHOFER | MOZART 100 | AUT | Link |
| Roberto | MORENO | MULTISPORT BOLIVIA | BOL | Link |
| Sergio | ZOLINO | ADVENTURE CAMP | BRA | |
| Gustavo | NOGUEIRA | INDOMIT | BRA | Link |
| Sébastien | CÔTÉ | ULTRA-TRAIL HARRICANA DU CANADA | CAN | Link |
| Shun | MA | PROFOUND BEAUTY SPORTS | CHN | Link |
| Oscar | MAHECHA | AVENTURA MONTANA | COL | Link |
| Alen | PALISKA | SRK ALBA | CRO | Link |
| Tico | CERVERA | PENYAGOLOSA TRAILS | ESP | Link |
| Fernando | GONZÁLEZ DÍAZ | ARISTA | ESP | Link |
| Marina | HYYTIAINEN | TRAIL 2 HEAVEN S.L. | ESP | Link |
| Denis | BOULLÉ | ASSOCIATION GRAND RAID DE LA RÉUNION | FRA | Link |
| Janet | NG | HONG KONG 100 | HKG | Link |
| Pól | O'MURCHU | IRISH MOUNTAIN RUNNING ASSOCIATION | IRL | Link |
| Cristina | MURGIA | LAVAREDO ULTRA TRAIL | ITA | Link |
| Enrico | POLLINI | ULTRABERICUS TEAM A.S.D. | ITA | Link |
| Jey | JANG | KOREA 50K | KOR | Link |
| Krzysztof | GAJDZIŃSKI | LEMKOWYNA ULTRA-TRAIL | POL | Link |
| Nuno | GONCALVES | ASSOCIACAO DE ATLETISMO DA REGIAO AUTONOMA DA MADEIRA | POR | Link |
| Mario | LEAL | CLUBE INDEPENDENTE DE ATLETISMO ILHA AZUL | POR | Link |
| Craig | THORNLEY | WESTERN STATES ENDURANCE RUN | USA | |
| Nic | BORNMAN | ULTRA-TRAIL CAPE TOWN | ZAF | Link |
| Michael | DE HAAST | PURE ADVENTURES | ZAF | Link |
Runner Members (4 seats) :
| Majell | BACKHAUSEN | AUS | Runner's file | Link |
| Aaron | KNIGHT | AUS | Runner's file | Link |
| Sandro | CAVA | ARG | Runner's file | |
| Leonardo | ISOLA | ARG | Runner's file | Link |
| Neisa | CONDEMAITA | BOL | Runner's file | Link |
| Rosalia | CAMARGO | BRA | Runner's file | Link |
| Sidney | TOGUMI | BRA | Runner's file | Link |
| Lei | YU | CHN | Runner's file | Link |
| Enrique | SANCHEZ CLAROS | COL | Runner's file | Link |
| Ashur | YOUSSEFI | CRI | Runner's file | |
| Sergio | GARASA MAYAYO | ESP | Runner's file | Link |
| Antoine | BARTHÉLEMY | FRA | Runner's file | Link |
| Bernard | BELABDI | FRA | Runner's file | |
| Sébastien | CHAIGNEAU | FRA | Runner's file | Link |
| Nathalie | MAUCLAIR | FRA | Runner's file | Link |
| Nikos | ZANAS | GRE | Runner's file | Link |
| Jose Carlos | SARMIENTO | GUA | Runner's file | Link |
| Simona | MORBELLI | ITA | Runner's file | Link |
| Roberto | PAOLONI | ITA | Runner's file | |
| Gediminas | GRINIUS | LTU | Runner's file | |
| Michael | SCOGINGS | PER | Runner's file | Link |
| Pedro | MEDEIROS | POR | Runner's file | Link |
| Filipa Alexandra | VILAR | POR | Runner's file | |
| Diego | PAZOS | SUI | Runner's file | |
| Laurent | LELOUP | SWE | Runner's file | Link |
Founding Members (2 seats) :
| Michel | POLETTI | FRA | Runner's file | Link |
| José Carlos | SANTOS DOS MORAIS | POR | Runner's file | Link |
Who can vote and how are the votes organised?
For each of the categories Founding members, Institutional members, Organiser members or Sports members, their members on the steering committee are elected by secret ballot by all the members of their category who are present at the Annual General Meeting by a two round plurinominal majority election. An absolute majority is required for election in the first round. In the second ballot, the candidates who obtained the most votes for the remaining posts are able to be elected. They are eligible for reelection.
1st round results - Steering Committee elections - 21st June 2017
Candidates elected - 1st round
Founding members:
- Jose Carlos SANTOS DOS MORAIS receives 5 votes, 100.00% of the total.
- Michel POLETTI receives 5 votes, 100.00% of the total.
Institutional members:
- Jose Antonio Martins FERNANDES receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.
- Michel HUERTAS receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.
- Pablo VEGA receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.
- Piotr BETKOWSKI receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.
- Richard BOLT receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.
- Tito TIBERTI receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.
- Rui PINHO receives 6 votes, 75.00% of the total.
- Daniel PEREZ GARRIDO receives 5 votes, 62.50% of the total.
Organizer members
- Cristina MURGIA receives 124 votes, 64.58% of the total.
- Enrico POLLINI receives 112 votes, 58.33% of the total.
- Mario LEAL receives 104 votes, 54.17% of the total.
Please find the final results of the 1st round at the following link :
https://www.electionsonline.com/results/index.cfm?token=4477CCF2-99F5-0558-A359191FB4FAB74C
NB :
In the "Institutionals" category , the correct amount of voters is 14 and not 16 as published by the website.
Two account were created following technical issues. These account did not take part into the vote and have absolutely no influence over the vote's results.
Therefore, the percentage of ballot return for the Institutionals category is 57.14%
And the correct number of eligible voter ( all categories included ) is 75 and not 77,
Therefore, the percentage of ballot return is 78,66%, for the whole election.
2nd round results - Steering Committee elections - 22nd June 2017
Candidates elected - 2nd round :
Organizers members :
- Janet NG with 116 votes, 58.00% of the total.
- Fernando GONZALEZ DIAZ with 80 votes, 40.00% of the total.
- Alen PALISKA with 64 votes, 32.00% of the total.
- Krzysztof GAJDZINSKI with 52 votes, 26.00% of the total.
- Michael DE HAAST with 52 votes, 26.00% of the total.
Runners members :
- Gediminas GRINIUS with 60 votes, 45.45% of the total.
- Nathalie MAUCLAIR with 56 votes, 42.42% of the total.
- Sébastien CHAIGNEAU with 46 votes, 34.85% of the total.
- Sidney TOGUMI with 28 votes, 21.21% of the total.
Please find the final results of the 2nd round at the following link:
https://www.electionsonline.com/results/index.cfm?token=BD031C71-B602-CDBB-906D6B49DB0645BA
NB :
The percentage of ballot return is 64% for the second round.
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