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2012-1 – Toronto - Canada Board of Directors
REPORT OF THE SPORT COMMISSION
ILS SPORT COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP
Dave Thompson – Sport Commissioner
Perry Smith - Chair: Technical and Rules Committee
Lorraine Wilson - Chair: Event Management Committee
Greg McLennan - Chair: Sport Development Committee
Ian Fullagar – Chair: Anti-Doping Committee
Carsten Schlepphorst – Chair: Athletes Committee
Jolanda van Dalen – Non Portfolio
COMMISSIONER’S OVERVIEW
I’m pleased to present this report on behalf of the ILS Sports Commission for the period 2008 - 2010.
Please note that some of the KPI results are reflective of Rescue 2010, therefore the achievement will
be the same as per the previous report tabled in May 2010.
Listed below are some of the key areas of activities and achievements for the ILS Lifesaving Sport
Commission;
Achievements
1. ILS Lifesaving Sport Workshop
An ILS Lifesaving Sport Strategic Planning session 2012-2020 was held in November 2012 at
the ILS headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.
The aim of the sport strategic planning working group is to achieve a vision of what lifesaving
sport is and to create a draft plan that can meet stakeholders’ expectations related to lifesaving
sport.
All Sport Commission Committees have specific projects which are focussed on the strategic
growth, participation and direction of Lifesaving Sport.
The Minutes of the Strategic Planning session as well as the progress of each of the created
Working Groups is given in APPENDIX 15B.
2. ILS Competition Rules
The ILS Competition Rules completed and distributed in October 2011.
ILS Lifesaving Sport Committees Summary of Activities and Achievements
Rules & Technical
1. ILS Competition Manual, 2011 Edition completed.
2. ILS Equipment and Scrutineering Standards Project
This is ongoing and has been included in the Strategic Workshop projects
Anti-Doping
1. No issues with any committee members.

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2. Communication of the new ILS Anti-Doping Policy to ILS Member Nations and in particular the
changes to the whereabouts requirements we made to the Policy have been distributed.
3. No issues regarding WADA other than ongoing problems with ADAMS access and organisation
of out of competition tests.
4. Out of competition testing is done by the ILS anti-doping administrator (Karin Obus) in
accordance with IOC policy.
Sport Development
1. The development and publishing of the ILS Sports Development Plan - published on the ILS
“closed - members only" website.
2. The establishment of the ILS College of Referees - Competencies established and accepted
details and registration scheme sent to all ILS members for their use in assessing their official’s
education and training against the competencies and then registering their officials in the
college.
Event Management
1. Rescue 2012 World Championships: An update will be provided.
(refer to Rescue 2012 report presented by Ron Rankin AM, Chairman Rescue 12)
2. Rescue 2014 World Championships Update
(refer to Rescue 2014 report presented by the French Federation)
3. World Games 2013 (refer to 2013 World Games Report presented by the ILS Secretary General
Harald Vervaecke)
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FROM ILS FRAMEWORK
1. Increase participation in lifesaving sport
Status: green
Rescue National Teams Federations (competing at Interclub)
2008 36 36
2010 42 49
Variance +16% +18%
STRATEGIC GOALS FROM ILS FRAMEWORK
1. Increase by 25 % the number of nations organising national lifesaving championships and/or
participating at international events (compared to 2004-2008 period).
A. Number of nations organising lifesaving championships
At the end of 2008, ILS counted 69 full member organisations. At the end of 2012, ILS
counts 72 member organisations.
The number of nations organising lifesaving championships in the period 2004-2008 was:
Argentina, Australia-Surf, Australia-Royal, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
Czech Republic, Chinese Taipei, China Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
Kong - China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, St Lucia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
– Royal, United Kingdom – Surf, USA, making a total of 42 countries, which is 61 % of the
ILS Membership.

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New nations that are organising lifesaving championships are Croatia, Estonia, Qatar,
Greece, Mexico, Serbia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Kenya, Syria, South Korea, which is
12 nations. This is an increase of 29 %.
B. Number of nations participating at international events
In the 2004-2008 period the following number of nations participated at the Lifesaving
World Championships:
Rescue 2004: 47
Rescue 2006: 35
Average is 41 nations
Rescue 2008: 36
Rescue 2010: 49
Average is 42.5 nations
There is an increase of 3.6 %.
Status: for the first part of the KPI the status is blue (accomplished) for the second part of the
KPI the status is amber.
PROGRESS ON COMMISSION PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
ILS Lifesaving Sports Commission
1. 40% of Full Members adopted the ILS Competition Rules for their national championships.
Status: blue - completed
2. One more Regional/Continental Multi Sport Games includes lifesaving.
Comments: Lifesaving is now included in the Masters Games.
Status: blue - completed
3. Publish Sport Development Plan for athletes, coaches and officials. Competition Organisation
and Management.
Status: green - on track
4. Structured evaluation process that permits Quadrennial to Quadrennial comparisons in place for
Rescue Series and Lifesaving Development.
Status: blue – on-going and completed
5. Increase the number of sanctioned events to 10 per year.
Status: green – on track
6. Increase awareness of Lifesaving Sport events and have the Rescue event televised in 3
countries.
Comments: Highlights of Rescue 2010 were televised on four Egyptian television channels and
fragments were televised in at least four more countries: Japan (with own TV crew), France
(with own reporters), Italy and Belgium.
Status: blue - completed
PROGRESS ON COMMITTEES PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Rules & Technical Committee
1. Event Manual published one year prior to the Rescue event
Comments: The manual was developed, published, posted and distributed in October 2011.
Status: blue - completed

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2. Acceptance and adoption of rules by all member federations
Comments: From the surveys we understand that all member nations doing lifesaving sport
accept and adopt (fully or at least partly) the ILS rules.
Status: blue – completed
3. Decrease in the number of disqualifications in the ILS World Championships
Comments: This CPI was achieved, disqualifications continued to decrease at Rescue 2010
compared to Rescue 2008.
Status: blue - completed
4. Meeting deadlines in publications for rules, rules to be published 12 months prior to the event
Comments: The rules were developed, published, posted and distributed in October 2011.
Status: blue - completed
Event Management Committee
1. World Championships results posted within 24 hours
Status: blue - completed
2. World records at events other than World Championships certified and posted within 30 days.
Status: blue - completed
3. 100% compliance with the Event Management Handbook.
Status: blue - completed
4. Sanctioning process in place and used.
Status: blue - completed
5. Structured evaluation process that permits Quadrennial to Quadrennial comparisons in place for
Status: blue - completed
Sport Development Committee
1. Develop research into satisfaction by athletes into the Rescue events
Status: blue - completed
2. Increase the number of nations organising National Lifesaving Championships and/or
participation at international events (as compared to the previous 4 years) by 25%
Status: first part blue – completed – second part amber (see comment above)
3. Develop a framework for the inclusion of Lifesaving into multi-disciplinary games
Status: green – on track
4. Development of Officials qualifications
Status: blue - completed
5. Establishment of the College of Referees
Status: blue - completed
6. Survey data from participants indicates a high degree of satisfaction
Status: blue - completed
7. Publish Sport Development Plan for athletes, coaches and officials. Competition Organisation
and Management
Status: blue - completed

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8. Increase of officials from various countries officiating at World Championships. To 40% of
participating nations having officials officiating at these events
Status: blue - completed
Anti-Doping
1. 100% compliance with WADA and ILS policies on Anti-doping
Status: blue - completed
2. All full members that compete in sport have approved anti-doping policies that comply with
WADA.
Status: green
Athlete’s Commission
1. Athletes Committee actively contributing to decisions making within ILS
Comment: The athletes contribute actively to decision making within ILS through the Sport
Commission. Current and former athletes were also invited to participate at the sport strategic
planning session organised in November 2011.
Status: blue - completed
2. Athletes Committee fully operational and fulfilling its Terms of Reference
Status: blue - completed
3. Athletes Committee elected by their peers
Status: blue - completed
4. Athlete evaluation of the Rescue Series
Status: green
ITEMS FOR BOARD NOTATION
1. That ILS ensures that the lifesaving sport is athlete focused, development focused and that ILS
builds capacity in sports around the world.
2. That ILS helps countries to develop sports capacity.
3. That ILS should reinforce the role of sport within the international lifesaving work programme.
4. That ILS should work on a better presentation of the sport using agreed protocols.
5. That ILS encourages participation in World Championships by involving assistance to targeted
countries.
6. That ILS re-writes the bid documents for World Championships to include advantages of
organising a Rescue Series, value propositions, legacies and economic impact.
7. That ILS creates a Master Plan for World Championships in order to increase Transfer of
Knowledge.
8. That ILS expects detailed timetables for championships and that stakeholders be involved in the
set up thereof.
9. That ILS looks at increasing participation at the World Championships by:
Targeting those countries that already participated at Rescue Series.
Capacity building through partnering
Provide gear and equipment assistance.
Events
10. That in future World Championships ILS would remain with equal number of events in ocean/
beach – pool disciplines.
11. That ILS keeps the current number of events until the 2016 World Championships.

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12. That in the meantime, a working group (under the Sports Commission) would review the current
events and their format and propose the future ILS events, taking into consideration the opinion
of stakeholders, media specialists and including risk analysis per event.
Multi Sports Games – Collaboration – Partnership
13. That a Working Group be set up to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study on the inclusion
of lifesaving in the Olympic programme from the 2024 Olympic Games onward and beyond.
That the Working Group be tasked to:
Analyse the financial impact as well as the human resource impact.
Analyse the inclusion of lifesaving in other Multi Sports Games necessary to access
Olympic status.
Analyse and propose the event(s) for Olympic inclusion.
Submit its recommendations to the 2012 November Board of Directors.
14. That ILS establishes partnerships with other aquatic environment sports and offers to provide
rescue services and risk management assistance.
Others
15. That equipment used in lifesaving competitions be standardised and that maximum tolerances
be defined related to set specifications. That the DLRG manikin be used as the manikin at
World Championships and at ILS sanctioned events and that the other ILS approved manikins
may be used at national events. That ILS in the meantime creates an ILS manikin.
16. That ILS reviews the current sanctioning process including risk management.
17. That ILS makes the International List of Referees and the ILS College of Referees operational.
18. That ILS creates a database on elite and high profile athletes.
19. That ILS enhances its relationship with FINA.
ITEMS FOR BOARD APPROVAL
1. That ILS focuses on specialist champions rather than on overall champions.
2. That events should not primarily demonstrate lifesaving actions but rather lifesaving skills.
3. That the World Championships continue to take place every two years including national teams,
masters, interclub teams, IRB and surfboats.
4. That the World Championships preferably rotate around the regions on an 8-years basis (with
discretion to vary this where required).
5. That the World Championships for youth (16-19 years) be extended as a trial until 2014.
6. That the naming of the World Champions be Lifesaving World Champion for National Teams
World Championships, Lifesaving World Interclub Champions for Interclub World
Championships, Lifesaving World Youth Champions for Youth World Championships,
Lifesaving Surfboats World Champion for Surfboat World Championships, Lifesaving IRB World
Champion for IRB World Championships.
VARIANCES (ADDITIONS) TO STRATEGIES/INITIATIVES
Lifesaving Sport Workshop update: We refer to the Minutes of the workshop (APPENDIX 15B).
RISKS/ISSUES/CONCERNS
Nil

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ATTACHMENTS TO THE REPORT
1. Rescue 2012 World Championships Update
(refer to Rescue 2012 report presented by Ron Rankin AM, Chairman Rescue 12)
2. Rescue 2014 World Championships Update
(refer to Rescue 2014 report presented by ILS Secretary General Harald Vervaecke)
3. 2013 World Games (refer to 2013 World Games Report presented by ILS Secretary General
Harald Vervaecke)
4. ILS Sport Commission Strategic Planning Session Minutes and Projects: see APPENDIX 15B.
Dave Thompson
Sports Commissioner