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Report to the EPC General Assembly – Athens 28th September 2003
European Championships
In 2002 two Championships were held. These championships were held according
to the calendar of the relevant IPC SEACs:
Archery 24th Aug. – 2nd Sep. 2002 Spala, Poland
Cycling 17th Sep. - 22th Sep. 2002 Anadia, Portugal
Cup-events were organized in: Ski Nordic and Alpine Ski
In 2003 six championships and 3 Cup events are on the program. In the championship program about 1400 athletes and in the cup events another 200 athletes will be involved. EPC thanks the organizer to take the responsibility for the events and championships. EPC also thanks the headquarter of IPC for the administrative support.
Championships:
Athletics 15th Jun. – 21st Jun. 2003 Assen, Netherlands
Table Tennis 20th Jun. – 29th Jun. 2003 Zagreb, Croatia
Powerlifting 30th Jul. – 03rd Aug 2003 Piestany, Slovakia
Cycling 16th Aug. – 23rd Aug. 2003 Teplice/Prag, Czech Republic
Shooting 20th Aug. – 25rd Aug. 2003 Brno, Czech Republic
Wheelchair Dance Sport 30th May – 02nd Jun. 2003 Minsk, Belarus (date not
yet fixed)
Cup-events in: Sledge Hockey, Nordic Ski (Starting: 28th Dec.2002 – Rinn AUT - Final 19th Jan. 2003 in Plateau de Beille FRA), Alpine Ski (Starting: 13th Dec.2002 – Pitztal AUT - Final 20th Feb. 2003 in Kosters SUI)
EPC regrets, that in this Pre-Paralympic year no championship in swimming could be organized. EPC also regrets, that Greek as the place for the Paralympics next took not the responsibility to use European events as tests.
Futur championships
A contract for the European championships Athletics were signed with the Finnish
NPC. The 2nd championship will be held in Espoo (Finland) from 17th to 28th
August 2005. EPC also received official bids for championships in 2005 for
Cycling and Table Tennis.
European Sport Coordinators
There are some changes in the list of the Coordinators. I attach an actual
overview of the European Sport Coordinators.