Happy Birthday Penny Heyns!!
Penny Heyns (RSA)
Honor Swimmer (2007)
FOR THE RECORD: 1992 OLYMPIC GAMES: competitor; 1996 OLYMPIC GAMES: gold (100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke); 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES: bronze (100m breaststroke); FOURTEEN WORLD RECORDS: (2-50m breaststroke, 5-100m breaststroke, 4-200m breaststroke, 1-50m breaststroke (sc), 2-100m breaststroke (sc); 1994 COMMONWEALTH GAMES: bronze (100m breaststroke).
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Penny Heyns made Olympic swimming history when she became the first woman to win both the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke events at the same Olympic Games. She is also the only woman to hold as many as 14 World Records in breaststroke events and to hold all three breaststroke World Records simultaneously: the 50, 100 and 200 meter long course. She is the only swimmer to have broken a total of four individual World Records in one competition and she did it twice in 1999 in Los Angeles and Sydney. In Durban, she broke two short course World Records in one hour. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, she competed in her third Olympics winning the bronze medal in the 100 meter breaststroke.
As a latecomer to the sport at age 14, Penny knew nothing about Olympic competition as South Africa had been banned from the Olympic Games. With the ban lifted in 1992, she qualified as the youngest member of the team (17 yrs), competing in Barcelona and finishing 33rd and 34th in the breaststroke events. She then set her sights on Atlanta 1996 where she became the first Olympic gold medalist for South Africa in the post-apartheid era since Joan Harrison had won the 100m backstroke 44 years earlier in Helsinki.
Penny is a graduate of Amanzimtoti High School in Kwazulu-Natal Province and attended college at the University of Nebraska in the USA where she was an NCAA National Champion in the 200m breaststroke. She also trained with her coach Jan Bidrmen in Calgary.
Penny was named by Swimming World Magazine as the Female World Swimmer of the Year in 1996 and 1999. She has served as a member of the FINA Athletes Commission and currently is a business woman, motivational and public speaker and television presenter.
Happy Birthday Gail Johnson!!
Gail Johnson (USA)
Honor Synchronized / Artistic Swimmer (1983)
FOR THE RECORD: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: 1975 gold (solo, team); 1973 gold (duet, team); PAN AMERICAN GAMES: 1975 gold (solo, team); AAU NATIONALS: 26 (6 solo, 5 duet, 11 team, 4 figures); CANADIAN NATIONALS: 1969 (team), 1972 (duet, team); JAPANESE CHAMPIONSHIPS: 1974 (solo, duet, team); PAN PACIFIC GAMES: 1974 (solo, duet, team); TRI-COUNTRY: 1972 (solo, duet, team).
Gail Johnson was the champion among champions, first as a synchronized swimmer and them, after the untimely death of Hall of Fame coach Kay Vilen, as coach of the National, Pan American and World Champion Santa Clara Aquamaids. Her record of 26 National Championships over a 6-year period is phenomenal, particularly when you consider that for two years, she was commuting 120 miles every day to practice from her home in Walnut Creek to Santa Clara. Since 1979, with pressure from Canada and others to develop a U.S. National team concept, Gail has been a national team coach headquartered first in Santa Clara, then Portland, and now Detroit. Her coaches have been Jae Howell and the late Kay Vilen, who also coached her in coaching for 6 months before she died in 1976. Gail has won the Lawrence J. Johnson Award (no relation), the Helms Hall of Fame Honoree Award, and was a finalist first for her sport in the 1974 Sullivan Award, the U.S.A.’s Outstanding Amateur Athlete.
Happy Birthday Tim Shaw!!
Tim Shaw (USA)
Honor Swimmer (1989)
FOR THE RECORD: OLYMPIC GAMES: 1976 silver (400m freestyle); 1984 silver (water polo); WORLD RECORDS: 10 (200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m freestyle; relay); AAU NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: 7 (200yd, 200m, 500yd, 400m, 1500m freestyle; 3 relays); NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: 3 (500yd, 1650yd freestyle) ;WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: 1975 gold (200m, 400m, 1500m freestyle); World Swimmer of the Year: 1974, 1975 ; FINA Prize Eminence Award: 1974 ; Sullivan Award: 1975.
In 1974 Tim Shaw became the first swimmer ever to win the FINA Prize Eminence Award. He was also the World Swimmer of the Year in 1974 and 1975. He won the Sullivan Award as the greatest Amateur Athlete in the USA in 1975, beating out Bruce Jenner.
As a freestyler he set the world record at every distance from 200 meters to 1500 meters establishing 10 world records in just two years. At the 1974 U.S. Nationals, Shaw became the second man in history to hold the 200, 400, and 1500 meter freestyle world records at the same time. Shaw’s performance was all the more remarkable as he broke the three records in four consecutive days. In addition, he broke the 400 meter in the heats giving him four world records in four days. At the 1975 World Championships in Cali he battled dysentery and altitude but still managed three individual golds against the world’s best.
The record always proved his point until he came down with a bad case of anemia which kept him out of the water for a long time. On his return he tried too soon and a shoulder problem complicated his recovery even further. Shaw recovered enough to break his own 500 meter world record in the U.S. Olympic Trials and the Olympics but both times he was second to Brian Goodell who still went faster. After his silver medal in the 1976 Olympics, Tim concentrated on Water Polo, a family sport headed in the U.S. by his father. Tim was again snake bit as the U.S. Water Polo team didn’t go to Moscow. In 1984, at the Los Angeles Olympics, the U.S. team never lost a game but tied Yugoslavia in victories. The U.S. team was awarded the silver medal on fewer tournament points scored.
Tim Shaw was perhaps one of the world’s greatest swimmers never to win an Olympic Gold
Happy Birthday Robert Windle!!
Robert Windle (AUS)
Honor Swimmer (1990)
FOR THE RECORD: OLYMPIC GAMES: 1964 gold (1500m freestyle), bronze (relay); 1968 silver (relay), bronze (relay); WORLD RECORDS: 5 (200m, 220yd freestyle; relays); COMMONWEALTH GAMES: 1962 gold (relay), silver (1500m freestyle), bronze (400m freestyle); 1966 gold (400m freestyle; relays); AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: 11 (200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m freestyle; relays).
Bob Windle is one of those rare beings that made three Olympic teams. He won Tokyo in 1964, hit Rome on his way up in 1960 and retired for good after a Mexico City comeback in 1968. In addition to the gold for winning the 1500 at Tokyo where he beat, among others, the favored American superstar world record holder Roy Saari, Windle won a bronze in the 4×100 freestyle relay, followed with a bronze and a silver in Mexico, four years later. Oddly enough, Windle
won more Olympic medals (2) swimming relay 100’s than in any other distance, yet the 100 was the only freestyle distance he failed to win (by a touch out) in the Australian Championships during his long career. Between Tokyo and Mexico, Windle went to Indiana to swim for Doc Counsilman. He helped his Indiana team win the NCAA Championship by anchoring the victorious 800 yard freestyle relay. Windle returned to his Aussie Coach, Don Talbot however, to assist the Commonwealth Games team in Jamaica set a world record at 440 yards.
He won a total of 4 gold medals, a silver and a bronze in his two Commonwealth Games at Perth and Kingston. Bob Windle retired in 1967 but agreed to swim the shorter distances at Mexico in 1968 when Don Talbot talked him into a comeback. He won 2 medals for Australia in the relays. The versatile Windle is the only Australian to swim Olympic races from the 100 meter to the 1500 meter.
Happy Birthday Claudio Plit!!
Claudio Plit (ARG)
Honor Open Water Swimmer (2014)
FOR THE RECORD: CHAMPION MARATHON SWIMMER (1970’s– 1980’s); WORLD PROFESSIONAL RANKINGS: FIRST OR SECOND NINE TIMES BETWEEN 1974–1984; FINISHED FIRST, SECOND OR THIRD IN 45 INTERNATIONAL RACES FROM 1974–1984; SWAM IN ALL TEMPERATURE WATER; SWIMS INCLUDE: RIO CORONDO, MAR DEL PLATO, CAPRI-NAPLES, PASPEBIAC, SUEZ CANAL, PORT SAID, NILE RIVER, LAC ST. JEAN, LAKE ONTARIO, SAGUENAY RIVER, LA TUQUE, ATLANTIC CITY, LAC MEPHREMAGOG.
Enrique Tiraboschi. Lillian Harrison. Jeanette Campbell. Horatio Iglesias. Claudio Plit. These are the great names in Argentine swimming history.
Born in Rosario in 1954, Claudio Plit began swimming in the Paraná River as a boy and would go on to enjoy a professional swimming career that spanned three decades and over 250 marathon swims throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
After winning three consecutive national long distance championships, Claudio Plit made his first trip abroad in 1973. It was to Egypt for the Nile River marathon swim. Soon after arriving he fell sick with typhus. Only his desire, competitive spirit and physical strength enabled him to recover in time for the race. It was the beginning of his long and successful international campaign that would take him four times to the title of World Open Water Champion.
From 1974 to 1986, Claudio finished in the top three in 45 of the 48 races he entered. He was winner of the famous and spectacular Italian, Capri to Naples marathon, in 1979, ‘80, ‘81 and 86’, the same years he was World Champion. Five times he emerged victorious in the most arduous race on the international calendar, the Traversee of Quebec’s Lac St. Jean, in Canada. It was here he had some of his most memorable races and developed a fierce but friendly, decade-long rivalry with New Zealander Phillip Rush. Not only does the Traversee demand determination and guts to finish, but also great physical and mental strength to endure the 18 hour crossing in 55 degree waters.
He swam in 25 Lac St. Jean Traversees, 20 Atlantic City , New Jersey “Around-the-Island Marathon Swims,” and won races in the Nile River and the Suez Canal, and many more.
Now in retirement, Claudio is currently the Race Director of the annual FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cups in Argentina. He is also active as a coach-trainer and escorts swimmers participating on the professional circuit, and has been a guest presenter at FINA Open water swim seminars. For several years, Claudio was the founder and President of the Professional Marathon Swimming Federation Association.
Claudio Plit was not only a great swimmer, but is a tenacious advocate of swimming, who has helped introduce many into the hard but exciting world of the open water.
Happy Birthday Mary T. Meagher!!
Mary T. Meagher (USA)
Honor Swimmer (1993)
FOR THE RECORD: 7 WORLD RECORDS: 100m butterfly (2), 200m butterfly (5); OLYMPIC GAMES: 1980 (boycott), 1984 gold (100m butterfly, 200m butterfly, 400m medley relay), 1988 bronze (200m butterfly); WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: 1982 gold (100m butterfly), silver (200m butterfly, 400m medley relay), 1986 gold (200m butterfly), silver (400m freestyle relay, 400m medley relay), bronze (100m butterfly); PAN AMERICAN GAMES: 1979 gold (200m butterfly), 1983 gold (200m butterfly).
Known affectionately as “Madame Butterfly,” Mary T. Meagher has held the women’s world record for the 100 and 200 meter butterfly for over a decade. Meagher’s records, set in 1981, are steadily approaching the longest-standing world record of all time by Hall of Famer Willy den Ouden of Holland. Her 100m freestyle record remained untouched from July of 1933 to February of 1956– 23 years. Hall of Famer Dawn Fraser had the honor of breaking the famous mark at the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
A member of the 1980, 1984, and 1988 Olympic teams, Mary T. captured gold medals in the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly, and the 400m medley relay at the Games in Los Angeles. Her 100 and 200 fly times were both Olympic records.
In 1981, Meagher established world records in the 200 fly (2:05.96) and the 100 fly (57.93) at the U.S. Long Course National Championships in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. Her 200 fly time is rated as the fifth-greatest single event performance by Sports Illustrated magazine. Mary T. holds the top 11 times in history in the 200 fly and is the only woman to swim under 2:07.
Born to parents Jim and Floy of Louisville, Kentucky, Mary T. is the tenth of eleven children in a close-knit family and is known as Mary T. to distinguish her from the eldest Mary in the family, Mary Glen. The initial stands for her mother’s maiden name, Terstegge.
It all began for Mary, when as a 14-year-old girl who wore railroad track braces and traveled with a stuffed green frog named “Bubbles,” she set her first world record at the 1979 Pan American Games.
Coached by Dennis Pursely at Lakeside Aquatic Club in Louisville, Mary T.’s success continued as she qualified for the 1980 Olympic Games and then went on to swim to unparalleled world records in 1981.
Mary T. enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1982 and met up with another all-star butterflyer, Hall of Famer and Berkeley head coach Karen Moe Thornton. During her collegiate career, Mary T. won NCAA Championship each year of her four years with the Golden Bears.
After her wins at the Olympic Games in 1984, Mary T. had planned to retire, but her desire to break her own world record and the fact that she still held 17 of the fastest 200 fly times in the world was enough to convince her to give it another try. More importantly to Mary, however, as a loyal and dedicated athlete, she would feel badly about staying home.
In a sport where tenths and even hundredths of a second separate first through last place, timing is everything. At the 1988 Games in Seoul, Mary finished third in the 200 fly final won by Kathleen Nord of the German Democratic Republic. It is worth mentioning that Mary T. swam faster at the U.S. Trials (2:09.13) than Nord’s winning time at Seoul (2:09.51).
Besides her butterfly prowess, Mary T. is known for her genuine personality and cheerful smile. She was a self-motivator whose desire to succeed, not only for herself but her team, led her to many gold medal performances.
Happy Birthday Manuel Estiarte!!
Manuel Estiarte (ESP)
Honor Water Polo (2007)
FOR THE RECORD: 1980 OLYMPIC GAMES: 4th; 1984 OLYMPIC GAMES: 4th; 1988 OLYMPIC GAMES: 6th; 1992 OLYMPIC GAMES: silver; 1996 OLYMPIC GAMES: gold; 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES: 4th; 1991, 1994 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: silver; 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: gold; 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999 FINA WORLD CUP: bronze; 1983,1991, 1993, 1997, 1999 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: silver (1991), bronze (1983,1993), 5th (1997), 6th (1999);
At just 5’8″ and weighing 145 pounds, Manuel Estiarte would seem to be an unlikely candidate to be considered the greatest player of all-time in a sport whose players average 6’3” and 200 plus pounds. But Manuel’s career proved once again that it’s not the size of the man, but the size of his heart and what’s in the head that counts the most. Born in Manresa, Spain, in 1961, Manuel Estiarte began playing water polo as soon as he could swim and at the Barcelona Swimming Club (BSC) was identified as a water polo prodigy. He was 15 when he made his international debut and within three years was the top scorer at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. He repeated as the leading scorer in 1984 Los Angeles with a record 34 goals as the Most Outstanding Player of the Games. He led all players in scoring again in 1988 at Seoul with 26 goals.
In 1992 Estiarte became a national hero after leading Spain to its first-ever Olympic medal, silver, in their host city of Barcelona. But finishing the Games as top scorer again was little comfort following a dramatic gold medal final against Ratko Rudic’s Italian team. Estiarte converted a penalty 42 seconds from full time to put Spain ahead, but nine seconds later Italy equalized and went on to win in extra time. Four years later, in Atlanta, Spain and Estiarte were once again in the Olympic final, but this time the result was different. With ten seconds to play and Spain up 7- 5 against Croatia, Estiarte took possession.
“I’ve dreamt of this moment all my life,” he said afterwards. “The last ten seconds of the Olympic final, I have the ball and Spain wins the gold medal. I waited five Olympics, but it finally happened.” All totaled, in a career that spanned over two decades, he competed in more Olympic Games, six, and scored more than any other player in Olympic history, 127. He competed in over 578 international games for the Spanish team, scoring over 600 goals. For many years, he played in the Italian Professional League with Club Pescara winning a water polo grand slam of four European Championships. In 1998, he was voted Best Player of the Perth World Championships. “I had the privilege to take part in six Olympic Games, and in each one of them I felt emotions too special to be described. From the first, when I was just a young man, to the last, where I won and I had the honour of carrying my homeland’s flag.”
Following his retirement after the Sydney Games he served as a member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes´s Commission until 2004.
Happy Birthday Petar Stoychev!!
Petar Stoychev (BUL)
Honor Open Water Swimmer (2019)
FOR THE RECORD: FOUR TIME OLYMPIAN, MORE THAN 100 PODIUM FINISHES IN PROFESSIONAL CAREER, WINNER FOR 11 YEARS: FINA OPEN WATER SWIMMING GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT, TRAVERSÉE INTERNATIONALE DU LAC ST-JEAN AND (34km/21 miles), OHRID (30km/19 miles) AND TRAVERSÉE INTERNATIONALE DU LAC MEMPHRÉMAGOG (32 km/20 miles); 2011 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: gold (25km); 2010 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: bronze (25km); 2006 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: bronze (25km); 2005 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: bronze (10km, 25km); 2003 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: bronze (25km); 2000 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: silver (10km); 2012 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP: gold (25km); 2011 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP: silver (25km); 2004 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP: bronze (25km)
Petar Stoychev is unique among all the world’s open water swimmers. Stoychev’s versatility in open water swimming is unprecedented. A superman in the water, he has been able to cross great channels and swim in extreme conditions with water temperatures ranging from 35 to 90 degrees. He was the first swimmer to cross the English Channel in under seven hours.
Born on October 24, 1976 in Momchilgrad, Bulgaria, Petar Stoychev started to practice swimming at the age of six in the town of Smolyan, under the guidance of his first coaches Evelina Georgieva and Ognyan Georgiev. This little boy from the Rhodope Mountains could hardly have dreamed then that he would compete in four Olympic Games and become one of the greatest open water swimmers in history.
Petar Stoychev made his first international success in 1992, when the 16-year old swimmer placed fourth in the 400m freestyle at the European Junior Championships. After that, in the same year, he made his open water debut at the annual Ohrid Swimming Marathon in Macedonia, where he placed second. This was when Stoychev realized that his strength was in longer distances and challenging conditions in the open water. At the 1995 European Open Water Championships in Austria, Stoychev managed to place sixth at the 5km swimming race and 12th in the 25km. He slowly gave up swimming in the warm and luxurious pools and started to swim in the open water marathons organized by the International Swimming Federation (FINA).
Stoychev enters the ISHOF with more than 60 international marathon victories to his credit. He won the FINA World Cup/World Series titles 11 consecutive years, from 2001-2011. He also won the Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog in Magog, Canada (34km), Lac Saint-Jean in Roberval, Canada (32km) and the Ohrid Lake, Macedonia Swimming Marathon (30km) each 11 consecutive times. In 2007, he became the first to swim the English Channel in under seven hours, with a time of 6:57.5.
In addition to his numerous achievements in marathon swimming, Petar participated in four Olympic Games; twice as a pool swimmer (2000 & 2004) before the open water event joined the Olympic program and in 2008 & 2012, where he finished 6th and 9th respectively in the 10k Olympic races which were shorter than his preferred 25k and longer distances. In Beijing, Stoychev was Bulgaria’s flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Petar Stoychev is not only considered one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time, but in addition, he takes an active role in popularizing swimming in Bulgaria and around the world. He frequently meets with children and supports the UNICEF initiatives and the campaign against child obesity. He has also served in Bulgaria’s Ministry of Sport and on the FINA Athlete’s Commission.
Flashback Friday: The Launch of a Legend as Mark Spitz Wins Five Gold Medals at 1967 Pan American Games
by DAVID RIEDER – SENIOR WRITER
19 October 2023, 02:35am
Throwback Thursday: Mark Spitz Wins Five Gold Medals at 1967 Pan American Games
With the Pan American Games scheduled to start this weekend, it seemed like an appropriate time to feature the launch of a legend. At the 1967 edition of the Pan Am Games, Mark Spitz made his name known to the world.
During the era when Mark Spitz established himself as the standard-bearer for swimming, swimmers did not race in goggles, and the World Championships did not exist. The first edition of the global showcase held by FINA (now World Aquatics) was not held until 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, one year after Spitz retired following his record-setting seven-gold-medal performance at the Munich Olympics. International racing opportunities were sparse in the 1960s and 1970s, a far cry from the plentiful options for competition in this era.
Thus, Spitz only competed at two international competitions outside of his two Olympics (1968 and 1972): the Maccabiah Games, limited to Jewish athletes, and the Pan American Games, where any athletes from North and South American could compete. At the fifth edition of the Pan Am Games in 1967, Spitz supplied his first signature performance, with Winnipeg, Canada, the site of his first world records and a medal tally that would last for decades.
On June 26, 1967, Spitz set the first world record of his career, swimming a time of 2:06.4 in the 200 butterfly. Five days later, Spitz clocked 56.2 in the 100 fly, seven tenths under the previous global mark. Add in three relay gold medals, and Spitz had won five in total, becoming the first swimmer to win that many golds at Pan Ams.
Spitz would not hold these records continuously for years. On the contrary, only one month after Winnipeg, fellow American Doug Russell tied Spitz’s 100 fly world record while a third U.S. swimmer, John Farris, took away the mark in the 200 fly, only for Spitz to reclaim both standards in October at a meet in West Berlin, foreshadowing the historic performance he would notch in the same country five years later.
Spitz would hold both records before, during and after his ill-fated performance at the 1968 Olympics, where he placed second in the 100 fly and a shocking eighth in the 200 fly. But after those Games, he quickly recaptured his form, and between the butterfly events and the 100 and 200 freestyle, Spitz finished his career having set 20 individual world records.
But that run of greatness started at the Pan American Games, no longer considered one of the major meets on swimming’s calendar but still a meaningful one for swimmers from Canada to Argentina and everywhere in between. The most prolific swimmer in the history of the Pan Am Games is Brazil’s Thiago Pereira, who broke Spitz’s record of five gold medals with six of his own in 2007 before winning six again in 2011 and a further three in 2015.
More recently, plenty of standouts have used Pan Ams as a pre-Olympic year launching point for success, a list that includes Cesar Cielo, Allison Schmitt, Katie Meili, Kelsi Dahlia and most recently, Alex Walsh, Annie Lazor, Fernando Scheffer and Drew Kibler. This year’s edition of Pan Ams gets underway Saturday in Santiago, Chile, and the meet could again help vault a swimmer toward Olympic success, though anyone would be hard-pressed to take his or her Pan Ams momentum quite as far as Spitz did 56 years ago.
IOC Re-Elects 2023 Honoree Kirsty Coventry to Executive Board
by DAN D’ADDONA — SWIMMING WORLD MANAGING EDITOR
16 October 2023, 02:16pm
IOC Re-Elects Kirsty Coventry to Executive Board
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) re-elected 2023 International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) inductee Kirsty Coventry to its executive board on Monday.
Coventry, from Zimbabwe, was re-elected with Prince Feisal al Hussein of Jordan to the executive board.
The election gave Coventry a four-year term. She served on the Executive Board from 2018-2021 and chaired the IOC Athletes’ Commission.
Prince Feisal is head of the Working Group on Safeguarding and deputy chair of the Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commission.
According to an Olympics report, seven IOC Members coming to the end of their eight-year term, following their election or re-election in 2015, were re-elected for another eight years, with the age limit being taken into consideration for the end of their terms (80 years for those elected before December 1999 and 70 years for those elected after that date). They were Nawal El Moutawakel (Morocco, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1962, elected in 1998), Prince Albert II (Monaco, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1958, elected in 1985), and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1955, elected in 1998). All were elected for another eight-year term.
Also elected with age-consideration term limits by the IOC were: Valeriy Borzov (Ukraine, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1949, elected in 1994) was re-elected to serve until the end of 2029; Gunilla Lindberg (Sweden, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1947, elected in 1996) was re-elected to serve until the end of 2027; Syed Shahid Ali (Pakistan, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1946, elected in 1996) was re-elected to serve until the end of 2026; and Nenad Lalović (Serbia, membership linked to his function as President of United World Wrestling (UWW), year of birth: 1958, elected in 2015) was elected to serve until the end of 2028.