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The European Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission (AC) elections took place during the Forum and Assembly in Rome and three canoe sprinters were among the candidates for the commission from the summer sports.

 

Among the candidates of summer sports were Ronald Rauhe, Roberts Akmens and Emanuel Silva. At the end Ronald Rauhe was elected to this position as one of the summer sports representatives alongside Zorana Arunovic from Serbia and Johanna Taliharm (Estonia) was elected as a winter sport representative. British triathlete Alistair Brownlee has been elected as the new Chair of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) Athletes’ Commission (AC) at the 7th European Athletes’ Forum and Assembly in Rome, funded by Olympic Solidarity. Alexandra Miskovska-Longova (Slovakia) was re-elected to the Commission and will remain Secretary. They will serve the next two-year term.

 

42-year-old German sprinter Ronald Rauhe is one of the legends of canoeing, winning five Olympic medals, two of them gold, and adding 26 World Championships medals, European Games medal and 28 European Championships medals to his impressive medal count.

 

Newly elected EOC AC Chair Brownlee promised to do everything he can to help European athletes and highlighted the sharing of best practices as one of the key takeaways from the Forum in Rome.

 

Brownlee said: “It’s a great honour to become the EOC Athletes’ Commission Chair. I strongly believe that athletes are the most important stakeholder in sport and being able to represent and stand for the European athletes of the Olympic Movement is a great honour and responsibility. I want to do everything I can to promote the Olympic Movement in Europe.”