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Association of Summer Olympic International Federations Association des fédérations internationales olympiques des sports d'été
AbbreviationASOIF
Formation30 May 1983; 41 years ago (1983-05-30)
TypeNonprofit
PurposeInter-sport federation organisation
HeadquartersLausanne, Switzerland
Official language
English, French
President
Ingmar De Vos
Vice President
Uğur Erdener
Executive Director
Andrew Ryan
Websiteasoif.com

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) is a non-profit association of international sports federations that compete in the Summer Olympic Games. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, the same city where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also headquartered.

ASOIF Council

The council is composed of a president and six members, all from different federations. One of the six members is elected as vice-president. The president and all the members are elected for 4-year mandates. The executive director is nominated by the council on the proposal of the president as an executive position. The executive director is also on the council, but without voting rights. Members of the ASOIF Council as of March 2025 are:[1]

Designation Name Country Sport Federation
President Ingmar De Vos  Belgium International Equestrian Federation
Vice President Uğur Erdener  Turkey World Archery
Council Members Sebastian Coe  United Kingdom World Athletics
Nenad Lalović  Serbia United World Wrestling
Petra Sörling  Sweden International Table Tennis Federation
Morinari Watanabe  Japan International Gymnastics Federation
Executive Director James Carr  United Kingdom

Members

International federations may apply to become a full member if they govern a core Summer Olympic sport or govern a sport which featured in the three most recent Summer Olympics. They may apply to become an associate member if they govern a sport included on the programme for future editions of the Summer Olympic Games or govern a sport which has featured in any five editions of the Summer Olympic Games since 1988.[2] As of March 2025, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) has 30 full member and five associate member international federations.[3][4]

Full members

Sport International federation (IF) Acronym[5] National associations[3] Year IF founded[3] President Official website Notes
Aquatics World Aquatics WAQU 209 1908 Kuwait Husain Al Musallam worldaquatics.com
Archery World Archery WA 163 1931 Turkey Uğur Erdener worldarchery.org
Athletics World Athletics WATH 214 1912 United Kingdom Sebastian Coe worldathletics.org
Badminton Badminton World Federation BWF 188 1934 Denmark Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen bwfbadminton.org [lower-alpha 1]
Basketball International Basketball Federation FIBA 212 1932 Qatar Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani fiba.basketball
Canoeing International Canoe Federation ICF 181 1924 Germany Thomas Konietzko canoeicf.com
Cycling Union Cycliste Internationale UCI 205 1900 France David Lappartient uci.ch
Equestrian International Federation for Equestrian Sports FEI 134 1921 Belgium Ingmar De Vos fei.org
Fencing Fédération Internationale d'Escrime FIE 152 1913 Greece Emmanuel Katsiadakis (interim) fie.org
Field hockey International Hockey Federation FIH 128 1924 Macau Tayyab Ikram fih.ch
Football Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA 211 1904 Switzerland Gianni Infantino fifa.com
Golf International Golf Federation IGF 147 1958 Sweden Annika Sörenstam igfgolf.org
Gymnastics International Gymnastics Federation FIG 148 1881 Japan Morinari Watanabe fig-gymnastics.com
Handball International Handball Federation IHF 209 1946 Egypt Hassan Moustafa ihf.info
Judo International Judo Federation IJF 207 1951 Romania Marius Vizer ijf.org
Modern pentathlon Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne UIPM 110 1948 United States Robert Stull pentathlon.org
Rowing World Rowing FISA 159 1892 France Jean-Christophe Rolland worldrowing.com
Rugby union World Rugby WR 117 1886 Australia Brett Robinson worldrugby.org
Sailing World Sailing WS 140 1907 China Quanhai Li sailing.org
Shooting International Shooting Sport Federation ISSF 161 1907 Italy Luciano Rossi issf-sports.org
Skateboarding World Skate WSK 141 1924 Italy Sabatino Aracu worldskate.org
Sport climbing International Federation of Sport Climbing IFSC 95 2007 Italy Marco Maria Scolaris ifsc-climbing.org
Surfing International Surfing Association ISA 113 1964 Argentina Fernando Aguerre isasurf.org
Table tennis International Table Tennis Federation ITTF 226 1926 Sweden Petra Sörling ittf.com [lower-alpha 1]
Taekwondo World Taekwondo WT 212 1973 South Korea Choue Chung-won worldtaekwondo.org
Tennis International Tennis Federation ITF 207 1913 United States David Haggerty itftennis.com
Triathlon World Triathlon TRI 172 1989 Spain Marisol Casado triathlon.org
Volleyball Fédération Internationale de Volleyball FIVB 222 1947 Brazil Fabio Azevedo fivb.com
Weightlifting International Weightlifting Federation IWF 192 1905 Iraq Mohamed Jalood iwf.net
Wrestling United World Wrestling UWW 180 1912 Serbia Nenad Lalović unitedworldwrestling.org [lower-alpha 1]

Associate members

Sport International federation (IF) Acronym National associations[3] Year IF founded[3] President Official website Notes
American football International Federation of American Football IFAF 75 1998 France Pierre Trochet americanfootball.sport [lower-alpha 2]
Baseball and softball World Baseball Softball Confederation WBSC 143 2013 Italy Riccardo Fraccari wbsc.org [lower-alpha 2]
Cricket International Cricket Council ICC 105 1909 India Jay Shah icc-cricket.com [lower-alpha 2]
Lacrosse World Lacrosse WL 92 2008 United States Bob DeMarco worldlacrosse.sport [lower-alpha 2]
Squash World Squash WSF 115 1967 England Zena Wooldridge worldsquash.org [lower-alpha 2]

History

On 30 May 1983, the 21 International Federations governing the sports included at the time on the programme of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games decided to form the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF). ASOIF was formed, as stated in the first article of its constitution 'to co-ordinate and to defend the common interests of its members' and to 'ensure close co-operation between its members, and members of the Olympic Movement and other organisations'. These needs were identified in order to preserve the unity of the Olympic movement while maintaining 'the authority, independence and autonomy of the member International Federations.' The members of ASOIF meet once a year in a General Assembly. The General Assembly usually precedes the joint meeting between the executive board of the International Olympic Committee and the International Federations where a multitude of topics are discussed in the common interests of the Olympic Movement. ASOIF is administered by an executive body, the council, which consists of seven individual members, most of whom are presidents of Summer Olympic International Federations. The ASOIF General Secretariat is located in Lausanne and is administered by the ASOIF Executive Director. In 2015, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 had proposed five new sports in response to the new flexibility provided by Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC's strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. Olympic Agenda 2020 gives host cities the option of suggesting new sports and events for inclusion in their edition of the Games. Karate, skateboarding, sports climbing, surfing and baseball/softball were added to the Olympic Programme in Tokyo 2020. ASOIF has amended its statutes to enable IFs "governing sports included within the events programme for a specific edition of the Summer Olympic Games" to become "Associate Members". On 22 June 2023, the IOC decided to withdraw recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA), in accordance with Rule 3.7 of the Olympic Charter (OC),[6] although boxing will continue to be an Olympic sport for the 2028 Summer Olympics.[7] This was the first-ever international federation to be removed from the Olympic Movement by the IOC.[8] According to the Statutes of ASOIF, as updated in June 2023, the ASOIF Council may provisionally suspend any Full Member's rights (set forth in Article 3.4) if its IOC recognition is suspended, but allow it to retain its Member's rights set forth in Article 3.5. The Council may lift the suspension when such full member's IOC recognition is reinstated (Article 3.13).[9] In April 2024 the ASOIF General Assembly excluded the International Boxing Association (IBA) as ASOIF Member, in line with the ASOIF Statutes. This move follows the CAS decision of 2 April 2024, dismissing IBA's appeal against the IOC decision to withdraw IBA's recognition as the international federation (IF) for Olympic boxing. Previously, ASOIF had already suspended IBA's Full Member's rights.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Also a member of The Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Also a member of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF).

References

  1. ↑ "Council". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  2. ↑ ASOIF Statutes, 10 April 2024
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Members". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "Organisational Structure". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  5. ↑ "IOC - ODF Common Codes".
  6. ↑ "IOC Session withdraws recognition of International Boxing Association". olympics.com. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "IOC "guarantees" boxing's place at Los Angeles 2028 following IBA expulsion". www.insidethegames.biz. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Ricci Bitti says IBA expulsion "sad" but must be used "to rebuild" boxing". www.insidethegames.biz. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  9. ↑ ASOIF Statutes, 1 June 2023
  10. ↑ "ASOIF General Assembly elects Ingmar De Vos as its future President". ASOIF. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.

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