London 2012 equestrian boss joins FEI

Tim Hadaway

London 2012 Equestrian Competition Manager Tim Hadaway has joined the FEI staff every bit Director of the newly created Games as well as Championships Department.

In his novel role, Hadaway, who has been widely credited for the success of final year’s Olympic as well as Paralympic equestrian events, will last mainly to ensure that all FEI technical requirements for Games as well as Championships are delivered. He volition liaise amongst the FEI Departments every bit good every bit Organising Committees as well as his priorities at this stage are the FEI World Equestrian Games, as well as Olympic, Paralympic as well as Youth Olympic Games.

He volition also piece of employment on the creation of a best practices handbook for the operational delivery of equestrian competitions. His immediate priority volition last to piece of employment closely amongst the organisers of side past times side year’s Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inwards Normandy (FRA).

FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos welcomed the novel Director at FEI headquarters inwards Lausanne this week. “We are delighted that Tim Hadaway has joined the FEI team,” he said. “His depth of noesis across the amount spectrum of organisational as well as logistical issues volition last enormously valuable for the FEI.

“He volition last the straight off liaison betwixt the FEI as well as the organising committees as well as volition assist the organisers to deliver overstep lineament Games, inwards detail the FEI World Equestrian Games, exactly also both Olympic as well as Paralympic Games as well as the Youth Olympic Games, every bit good every bit other major FEI Championships.”

Hadaway has wide-ranging sense inwards the equestrian sports world. He graduated from the Royal Agricultural College inwards Cirencester (GBR) inwards 1994 amongst a BSc inwards Equine Management, as well as and then worked every bit Director of the Blair Castle International Horse Trials as well as consultant for the Bramham International Horse Trials.

He took on the operate of technical adviser to British Eventing (BE) inwards 1998 as well as also became BE Sport Technical Manager inwards 2002, every bit good every bit working every bit a regional evolution coordinator as well as consultant to the British Equestrian Federation (BEF). He advised the organisers of the 2006 Asian Games on the delivery of the cross-country phase, earlier joining the London Organising Committee of the Olympic as well as Paralympic Games (LOCOG) inwards Oct 2008.

Hadaway’s operate inwards producing what are widely acknowledged every bit the best Olympic as well as Paralympic equestrian events inwards history was recognised when he was i of viii individuals awarded a British Equestrian Federation Medal of Honour at the halt of 2012. Hadaway’s BEF medal was for his outstanding behind-the-scenes contribution to equestrian sport.

“I am delighted to accept been given this exciting chance past times the FEI as well as await forwards to using my experiences, peculiarly those from London 2012, to assist as well as back upward futurity Organising Committees of Games as well as major championships,” Hadaway said.

“Multi-discipline as well as multi-sport events are incredibly complex as well as our aim is to ensure that experiences as well as noesis gained are shared from i to the next. Although the halt finish is to educate guidance as well as processes nosotros promise volition produce goodness championships at all levels, the initial focus volition of class last to back upward the squad inwards Normandy as well as the Rio 2016 organisers.”

 

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