Former showjumper joins FEI Executive Board
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Olympic showjumper Maria Gretzer has replaced Kevin Staut equally the athlete instance on the FEI Executive Board.
Gretzer, who competed at 3 Olympic Games as well as 3 FEI World Equestrian Games for Sweden, is currently the Jumping trainer for the Swedish Eventing team.
She competed at the Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 as well as Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, as well as at the FEI World Equestrian Games inwards 1990 (Stockholm), 1998 (Rome) as well as 2006 (Aachen). The 54-year-old is directly retired from international competition.
French showjumper Staut made history equally the first athlete instance on the FEI Executive Board inwards May 2011, exactly has directly resigned from the post, which was to endure a three-year term. FEI President Princess Haya informed the FEI Bureau virtually Gretzer’s engagement to the purpose this week, as well as she volition agree the seat until 2014.
“I am real honoured to endure appointed onto the FEI Executive Board equally the athlete instance as well as I volition accept the responsibleness real seriously,” Gretzer said.
“I promise I tin brand a existent departure as well as that the athletes, across all the disciplines, volition cause got confidence that their vocalism volition endure heard at the highest level.”
Kevin Staut wished his successor good inwards the post. “I wishing Maria all the best inwards her novel purpose as well as I’m certain she volition create a actually corking job,” he said.
“I cause got given equally much of myself equally I could to the FEI Executive Board, exactly my top dog focus is evidently my international career as well as that has meant that I cause got non been able to devote equally much fourth dimension equally I would cause got liked to the FEI. I believe that the postal service could endure amend filled past times individual who has lately retired from the sport as well as Maria is a perfect fit.”
Princess Haya said the Executive Board was sorry to endure losing Staut, “but nosotros create empathize that he needs to focus on his international contest career,” she said.
“We are grateful to him for bringing a novel perspective to our Executive Board as well as for representing the athletes’ signal of sentiment across all the disciplines. But spell it’s sorry to run across Kevin go, nosotros are real much looking frontward to working amongst Maria, who equally good has thus much to offering us inwards damage of strengthening our links amongst athletes, the riders groups as well as the National Federations.”
Gretzer volition directly bring together Princess Haya; First Vice President John McEwen (GBR); Second Vice President Pablo Mayorga (ARG); Chair of the FEI Jumping Committee John Madden (USA), representing Group IV; Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa (BRN) Chair of Group VII; as well as FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos (BEL) on the Executive Board.
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