Place: Moscow, skating arena Krylatskoe
Date: 8th June 2007
Present:
B. Axelsen (DEN), V. Kraus (CZE), V. Trofimov (EST), T. Toivonen (FIN), T. Tigges (GER), M. Papp (HUN), R. Blumentahls (LAT), Trygve Lie (NOR), M. Margolis (RUS), R. Locher (SUI), K. Hudec (SVK), P. Bengtsson (SWE) /by sending a letter with votes to the ITHF/, A. Voyush (UKR), Eric Krol (USA) /by sending a letter with votes to the ITHF/.
Minute keeper: V. Kraus
Two candidates were introduced: Hungary and USA.
The result of the voting was: 11 votes for Hungary, 2 votes for USA.
The World Championship 2009 will be held in Budapest, Hungary.
One candidate was introduced: Latvia.
The result of the voting was: 12 votes for Latvia.
The European Championship 2008 will be held in Latvia.
It was suggested to voted about:
To raise the number of the Executive Committee members from FIVE to SIX and to use the vote of the President of the ITHF as the decisive vote when the voting in the Executive Committee ends with the draw result 3:3.
The result of this voting was: 12 ITHF members voted for this suggestion which means the change of the ITHF Constitution was approved.
The following candidates were elected:
Bjarne Axelsen (DEN) (12 votes)
Mike Caponetti (USA) (9 votes)
Zoltan Cserhati (HUN) (12 votes)
Vladimir Kraus (CZE) (14 votes)
Trygve Lie (NOR) (11 votes)
Intars Zubeckis (LAT) (11 votes)
The following candidates were elected:
Stanislav Kraus (CZE) (13 votes)
Michael Toft Nielsen (DEN) (12 votes)
Magor Papp (HUN) (11 votes)
Ivars Vilkens (LAT) (10 votes)
The following candidates were elected:
Samuel Blumer (SUI) (12 votes)
Peter Orum (DEN) (11 votes)
Eric Krol (USA) (11 votes)
Tim Tigges (GER) (12 votes)
Tibor Varga (CZE) (12 votes)
The Slovak delegate Karol Hudec has announced the interest of the Slovak Table Hockey Association to organize the World Table Hockey Championship 2011 in Kosice, Slovakia. The Ice Hockey World Championship will be held in this city at the same year and the city mayor is ready to support also the table hockey championship.
Signed by:
Bjarne Axelsen, Zoltan Cserhati, Vladimir Kraus, Trygve Lie
Members of the Executive Committee of the ITHF