ITU announces the TO Selection for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics

ITU is pleased to announce the complete selection of Technical Officials for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. There will be 42 National Federations represented on one or both Olympic and Paralympic Games, and 47% of the Officials selected are female, the highest percentage in history for ITU.

With potential candidates being Level 2 and Level 3 officials as of January 2019, the National Federations pre-selected a total of 146 International Technical Officials. The ITU Technical Committee and the Technical Delegates has approved the list of 28 names for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and 27 for the Paralympics.

In a significant move to push for gender balance within our sport, ITU has selected 12 female out of the 28 Olympic Games Officials and 13 out of 27 in the case of the Paralympic Games.

All five Continents are represented in this selection, with Technical Officials coming from countries with a very strong tradition in the sport but also from new development countries. Several National Federations will send Technical Officials without any representation in the previous edition of the Games in Rio – in some cases even in any previous editions – such as Barbados, Bahrain, Chinese Taipei, Germany, Mauritius, Romania, Serbia, St Kitts and Nevis, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.

There will be 16 International Technical Officials in both Olympic and Paralympic Games, without any former experience on such level of competitions, which shows the growth of competent officials in the last years.

The ITU has also selected the Medical Delegate for both events, who will be Dr. Sergio Migliorini (ITA) for the Olympic Games and Dr. Doug Hiller (USA) for the Paralympic Games.

Also, the Japanese Federation has selected the National Technical Officials for both events, with 50% of the elected being female.

In both Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Technical Officials will join the team of formerly selected Technical Delegates of Melody Tan, Jorge Garcia and Thanos Nikopoulos.

Officials for the Olympic Games

Gustavo Svane M ARG

Frank Stapleton M AUS

Dirk Bogaert M BEL

Gustavo Neves Abade M BRA

Kelly Mahoney F CAN

Zhiqiang Wang M CHN

Vicente Sanchez Ros M ESP

Sandrine Crosnier F FRA

Sarah Taylor - Hough F GBR

Howard Vine M GBR

Jan Philipp Krawczyk M GER

Rebecca Mok F HKG

Kyung Sook Kim F KOR

Alan Ma M MAC

Martha Eugenia Yeo Solana F MEX

Irving Isaac Zavala Romo M MEX

Floriane St Louis F MRI

Sander Verheuvel M NED

Line Amlund Hagen F NOR

Claire Hannan F NZL

Mario Carvalho M POR

Adina Dusa F ROU

Omar Abu Bakar M SGP

Ljudmila Medan F SRB

Jason Gooding M TTO

Stevee Espling F USA

Olga Blokhina F UZB

David Ellis M ZIM

Koji Koganezawa M JPN

Tsuyoshi Kakuta M JPN

Kosuke Furugo M JPN

Masato Suzuki M JPN

Ryo Kadoya M JPN

Mika Baba F JPN

Noriko Yamamoto F JPN

Miki Nagatsuka F JPN

Naoko Motoshima F JPN

Tomoko Kato F JPN

Medical Delegate Dr. Sergio Migliorini M ITA

Technical Officials for the Paralympic Games

Lyndell Murray F AUS

Friedrich Schwarz M AUT

Adrian Sinckler M BAR

Abbas Moosa Buhassan M BHR

Marie-Claude Gregoire F CAN

Ulf Schuetze M CAN

Lijuan He F CHN

Monica Flores Ferreiro F ESP

Pascal Godel M FRA

Masie Bancewicz F GBR

Andreas Galanos M GRE

Leslie Poujol Brown F HON

Dora Rozsa F HUN

Hugh McAtamney M IRL

Laura Patti F ITA

Woo Kyong Ki M KOR

Aleksandr Kochetkov M LTU

Adele Cheah F MAS

Esteban Alejandro Benitez M MEX

Ross Capill M NZL

Travis Campbell M RSA

Si Ying Ong F SGP

Winston Crooke M SKN

Michael Kurth M SUI

Gunilla Bergstrom F SWE

Andrew Tai M TPE

Catherine Jennings F ZIM

Satoshi Hanai M JPN

Takamichi Fukai M JPN

Hiroshi Unno M JPN

Daisuke Iguchi M JPN

Mitsuhiko Hasegawa M JPN

Naomi Ishii F JPN

Tomoko Oda F JPN

Toshiko Tomori F JPN

Miyuki Kanai F JPN

Chiaki Nagae F JPN

Medical Delegate Dr. Doug Hiller M USA

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