Susie Simcock makes history

By Raju Chainani

MUMBAI, OCT. 31. World Squash Federation (WSF) president Susie Simcock has become the first ever woman to be voted onto the Council of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF).

The biennial election took place at the GAISF Conference on 26th October 2000 in Monaco, when IOC vice president Dr. Un Yong Kim was re-elected as president of the Federation, and Dr. Tamas Ajan (weightlifting) and Hein Verbruggen (cycling) were re-elected as vice-presidents.

The election for the five members of the GAISF Council resulted in Susie Simcock not only becoming the only woman represented on the Council, but also the first woman ever to have held such a position. Her colleagues on the Council are Raymond Hahn (handball), Paul Henderson (sailing), Don Porter (softball), and Horst Schreiber (shooting). Furthermore, the WSF president represents the only sport which is not currently on the Olympic programme.

Susie Simcock, from Auckland in New Zealand, was elected as WSF president in 1996 and, later this week at the Federation's AGM and Conference in Hong Kong, will be elected unopposed for her third two-year period of office.

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