In his President’s report at the beginning of proceedings, Tayyab Ikram tackled numerous key strategic priorities, such as the FIH empowerment and engagement strategy, athletes’ welfare, hockey development or events. He highlighted specifically some of the major accomplishments of FIH since the last Congress:
- Governance: FIH advancing in 5th ASOIF Review
- Events: Junior World Cup expanding to 24 teams; Nations Cup and Nations Cup 2 introduced, Hockey5s World Cup with much enhanced accessibility
- Engagement: National Associations Summits
- Commercial: Partnerships with Hero MotoCorp, Nike and Laureus
- Social media performance during the Olympic Games Paris 2024: 31 million video views, 225.000 new followers and 125 million impressions
- Sustainability: FIH winning 2024 IOC Climate Action Award
- Olympic Solidarity: 60+ projects totaling over USD 2 million
- The FIH President also announced the launch of a global mental health project for athletes, as well as the launch of athletes and development portals on FIH.hockey.
Other decisions:
- The FIH audited accounts were submitted to Congress and subsequently approved
- The appointment of Eduardo Mario Guelfand (Argentina) as Judicial Commission President was ratified
The recipients of Awards – including FIH Awards, FIH President’s Awards and Order of Merit, amongst others – were revealed (see full list of recipients here).
At the start of today’s Congress, IOC President Thomas Bach addressed the delegates specifically, via a video message.
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