35th IMSSC Session

New IMSSC Structure

The 35th IMSSC Session was held in Krefeld on 02 Jun 2012. As Minutes Secretary Marcello Bresin/ESP was elected. Session Chair was Andrew Love/USA, who did his job very well. Dr. Volker Serini/GER resigned from his task as IMSSC Office Secretary, which he did for about 20 years.

In the course of these years Masters Speed Skating has been largely extended. Today we have a worldwide competition program with about 15 International Masters’ Competitions yearly, including Masters’ Allround Games and Masters’ Sprint Games, the Inofficial Masters World Championships, with 200 – 300 competitors at each of these Games.Dr.Volker Serini expressed his great thanks to all IMSSC Members who supported him during all the years in the development of Masters Speed Skating and thanked especially Sven-Aage Svensson/NOR, IMSSC Statictician, Bram de Vries/NED, IMSSC Treasurer, and Lasma Kauniste/LAT, IMSSC Secretrary Record Documents, for their great support. Because of the growth of the Masters Movement it was decided at the session to establish a new IMSSC structure. Tjeerd Smies/NED was appointed as President (Region Europe), Brett Arnason as Vice President (Region America), Kenji Takai/JAP as Vice-President (Region Asia), Paolo Gemme/ITA as Office Secretary and Andrew Love/USA and Marcello Bresin/ESP as Webmasters. New IMSSC Members were
appointed for The Netherlands and Russia, Tjeerd Smies/NED and Boris Repnin/RUS, instead of the resigning Members Bram de Vries/NED and Vladimir Tkachenko/RUS. Bram de Vries/NED stays IMSSC Treasurer, Sven-Åge Svensson/NOR IMSSC Statistician. The Masters’ Allround Games 2015 go to Calgary/CAN and the Masters’ Sprint Games 2015 to Kolomna/RUS. Decisions were taken upon all 56 proposals. They will be issued as soon as the Minutes have been written. The whole session was conducted in a very constructive spirit.
The next session, the 36th IMSSC Session, will be on Saturday, 25 May 2013, 10:00 – 18:00, in Amsterdam/The Netherlands.