{"id":3489,"date":"2026-04-24T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:44:26","slug":"candidates-announced-for-fis-president-and-council-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/candidates-announced-for-fis-president-and-council-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates announced for FIS President and Council election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All candidates for the positions of President and FIS Council (18 candidates) must be nominated by their National Ski Association at least 60 days before the opening of the Congress. In accordance with Article 10.10.1.1 of the FIS Statutes, the following candidates have been nominated for the positions of President and Council member:<\/p>\n<p><strong>President\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johan\u202fEliasch (GEO)<\/li>\n<li>Anna Harboe Falkenberg\u202f(DEN)*<\/li>\n<li>Victoria\u202fGosling\u202f(GBR)*<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Ospelt\u202f(LIE)*<\/li>\n<li>Dexter Paine\u202f(USA)*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is worth noting that the current FIS President, the Swede Johan Eliasch, is running in the presidential elections on behalf of Georgia, which is very important for our country, and it is also important that the President of the Georgian Ski Federation, Zurab Kostava, is participating in the Council elections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If they are not elected president, (except for Johan Elias) they will run for election to the International Ski Federation Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>List of candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deidra Dionne (CAN)<\/li>\n<li>Tove Moe Dyrhaug (NOR)<\/li>\n<li>Dean Gosper (AUS)<\/li>\n<li>Dr.\u202fMichael Huber (AUT)<\/li>\n<li>Nevena\u202fIgnjatovic\u202f(SRB)<\/li>\n<li>Magdalena Kast (ARG)<\/li>\n<li>Fredy\u202fKeirouz (LBN)<\/li>\n<li>Zurab Kostava\u202f(GEO)<\/li>\n<li>Roman Kumpost (CZE)<\/li>\n<li>Toma\u017e\u202fKunstelj (SLO)<\/li>\n<li>Karin Mattsson\u202f(SWE\u202f)<\/li>\n<li>Tzeko Minev (BUL)<\/li>\n<li>Ken\u202fOdashima (JPN)<\/li>\n<li>Jana\u202fPalovi\u010dov\u00e1 (SVK)<\/li>\n<li>May\u202fPeus (ESP)<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Philippe Rochat (SUI)<\/li>\n<li>Flavio Roda (ITA)<\/li>\n<li>Fabien\u202fSaguez (FRA)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Franz Steinle (GER)<\/li>\n<li>Fiona Stevens\u202f(NZL)<\/li>\n<li>Yuliia\u202fSyparenko (UKR)<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Toussaint Mas (AND)<\/li>\n<li>Martti\u202fUusitalo (FIN)<\/li>\n<li>Zhao Wang (CHN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The elections will be held during the FIS Congress on June 11, 2026, in Belgrade (Serbia).<\/p>\n<p>We wish Johan Eliasch and Zurab Kostava success.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/inside-fis\/news\/2025-26\/candidates-announced-for-fis-president-and-council-election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All candidates for the positions of President and FIS Council (18 candidates) must be nominated by their National Ski Association at least 60 days before the opening of the Congress. In accordance with Article 10.10.1.1 of the FIS Statutes, the following candidates have been nominated for the positions of President and Council member: President\u00a0 Johan\u202fEliasch (GEO) Anna Harboe Falkenberg\u202f(DEN)* Victoria\u202fGosling\u202f(GBR)*&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gsf-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsf.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}