The day began with tragic circumstances while we sat having breakfast at 9:30 in the morning a news bulletin came on the television telling the country that the Polish President’s plane had crashed tragically killing him his wife and over 90 other people on board. Igor Mazurenko put his head in his hands and everyone was clearly shocked and stunned at this terrible news. May I offer my condolences to the family and friends of all those people killed in this tragic accident.

Things took a while to quieten down and as a result of this the 2 day event was shortened to 1 day as Sunday would now be a day of Mourning. So with 214 competitors from around 30 clubs across Poland we had to run both the left and right hand events in 1 day. However Igor and his team did not flinch they just turned up the pace and ran extra tables with Marcin Mielhiczuk handling the technical side with his excellent scoring system, along side Piotr Szczerba (Head Referee of Poland) who had an amazing 30 strong team of well trained Referee’s. It all went so smoothly you would think that they had had a months notice and not just 1 hour to make these changes.

All in all it was a great competition with enthusiastic but well disciplined competitors confirming that Igor and his team are world leaders in organising competitions.

David Shead

Guest Referee

Hello All

I just would like to inform You that on last Saturday we had our national championships in Germany and also new votes for our board. Because of private and job-related reasons I quit my position as the president of the German Armwrestling Federation and since now I´m the second vice president. I stil will try to participate in the congress meetings as my time will allow me to do. Also I´m still the person who you always can contact for questions or informations.

Here is our new board with the email adress:

President: Olaf Koeppen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

1.Vice President: Udo Weiss This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2.Vice President: Robert Kornek This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The results of the German championships You can shortly find at www.armwrestling.de

Best wishes and hope to see You soon,

Robert Kornek

GERMAN ARMWRESTLING FEDERATION

Dear Presidents of national federations and officials,

Following Mr. Beny Walpen resignation, the SAF (Swiss Armsport Federation) has elected a new board from today on.

The new board is:

President: Catherine Zmoos, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Vice President: Remo Hollenstein, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Secretary: Biderbost Claudio, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Cashier: Sandra Nydegger, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Info: www.armsport.ch

Thanks in advance for taking good note of this change and publish it when needed. We hope that we will see each other at our national competition "Swiss Open" the Saturday 23rd of October 2010.

Best Regards.

Catherine Zmoos

President of SAF