LEN, the European aquatics federation, has elected a new set of leaders to its leadership Bureau behind re-elected president Paolo Barelli.
We reported on Barelli’s re-election yesterday. The head of the Italian swimming federation, Barelli was elected to his second consecutive four-year term.
LEN (an acronym for Ligue Europeenne de Natation) announced in its press release that for the first time ever, all 52 member federations were present at the LEN Congress that elected the new leadership. This group will be in office through 2020.
Here is the full LEN Bureau, as reported in that release:
Composition of the new LEN Bureau, 2016-2020
President: Paolo Barelli (ITA)
General Secretary: David Sparkes (GBR)
Treasurer: Tamas Gyarfas (HUN)
Vice-Presidents: Dimitris Diathesopoulos (GRE), Sven von Holst (SWE), Francis Luyce (FRA), Christa Thiel (GER), Andriy Vlaskov (UKR)
Members: Fernando Carpena (ESP), Joe Caruana Curran (MLT), Per Rune Eknes (NOR), Pia Holmen (DEN), Jerzy Kowalski (POL), Ahmet Mazhar Bozdogan (TUR), Aleksandar Sostar (SRB), Marco Stacchiotti (LUX), Noam Zwi (ISR)
FINA Bureau Continental Members: Paolo Barelli, Dimitris Diathesopoulos, Tamas Gyarfas, David Sparkes
LEN Internal Auditors: Ray Kendall (IRE), Giuseppe Nicolini (SMR)