World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness to Run Unopposed for Re-election

World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness OBE is set to be re-elected after she was revealed as the only candidate nominated for the next four year term.

The World Curling Federation (WCF) announced all of the candidates nominated for the forthcoming Board elections at the WCF Annual General Assembly being held at the World Curling Congress in Reno, viagra USA in September.

Caithness has been a member of the WCF Executive Board for eight years, buy having served as Vice-President from 2006-2010 before being elected President in 2010, a position she has held since.

In addition to the role of President, a new Board structure will take effect following the elections in September after a new WCF constitution was approved by Member Associations (MAs) at the 2013 WCF Annual General Assembly.

This will comprise of eight Board Directors in total – a President, three Vice-Presidents each from the three regional WCF zones, and another four Board Directors. All 53 MAs are eligible to nominate candidates for any of these positions.

The nominations for the three Vice-Presidents are Graham Prouse (Canada), the only nomination for the Americas zone, and Hugh Millikan (Australia), the sole candidate nominated from the Pacific-Asia zone.

From Europe, both current Vice-President Bent Ånund Ramsfjell (Norway) and Robert Susanj (Slovenia) have been nominated, with only one position available as the European zone Vice-President.

Eight candidates have been nominated for the other four Board Director positions. They are Albert ‘Andy’ Anderson (USA); Hew Chalmers (Scotland); Li Dongyan (China); Laura Lochanski (Canada); Toyokazu Ogawa (Japan); Leif Öhman (Sweden); Gerrit-Jan Scholten (Netherlands); Michael Stepanyants (Russia).

The elections will take place on Sunday 7 September 2014 at the WCF’s Annual General Assembly. This will be held at the end of the third WCF Annual Congress which is being held in Reno, Nevada, USA between 4-7 September 2014.