Stephane Malbos has been elected new president of the CIVL Bureau, according to an update on the CIVL website.
He replaces outgoing president Agust Gudmundsson who resigned to take a position on the FAI Executive Board.
Stephane Malbos is a well-known figure in free flight bureaucracy and has been involved in free flight for 20 years. However, he is most famous among pilots for revealing that he does not now fly but instead has a passion for golf. His revelation during a heated discussion over competition paragliders hosted on Paragliding Forum left even the most hardened PGforum voices almost speechless. (Almost.)
“Last time I flew a glider was more than 20 years ago. I am – proud and ashamed to admit – a golfer“
Other notable appointments see Adrian Thomas as chair of the paragliding committee and Jamie Shelden as chair of the hang gliding committee. Claudio Cattaneo is chair of the acro committee and Violeta Masteikiene chair of the paragliding accuracy committee.
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