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Wheelchair Fencing Officials selected for Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

18/01/2016

Representatives from Europe, Americas and Asia selected to officiate Wheelchair Fencing at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

With just over 230 days to go until the start of the 2016 Paralympic Games, the list of officials selected to represent Wheelchair Fencing at Rio 2016 has been released. There are 40 confirmed positions (one position TBC) with representatives from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and United States of America.

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games will run from 7-18 September with the Wheelchair Fencing events held in the newly built Youth Arena in the Deodoro Park, the second largest cluster of venues at the Games.

We greatly look forward to working with all of you and to a successful Rio 2016!

The appointments are as follows;

POSITION	PER POSITION	FIRST NAME	SURNAME	NATIONALITY
TECHNICAL DELEGATES
Technical Delegate	1	Udo	Ziegler	GER
Assistant TD	1	Hilary	Philbin	GBR
ITOs
President of DT	1/1	Pal	Szekeres	HUN
Directoire Members	1/5	Ksenia	Ovsyannikova	RUS
	2/5	Peter	Brigola	AUT
	3/5	Nelson	Tai	HKG
	4/5	Valber	Nazareth	BRA
	5/5	Victor	Groupierre	ARG
Semi Commission Members	1/2	Peter	Huggins	GBR
	2/2	Eugene	Constantin	CAN
	Back up	Daniele	Gottfried	ITA
Medical Representative	1/1	Man	Chung	HKG
Referee Commission Members	1/2	Eduardo	Gomes	BRA
	2/2	Ingolf	Blumowski	GER
International Referees	1/28	Maximilian	Oprzedek	AUT
	2	Suzanna	Vogt	CAN
	3	Hai Long	Li	CHN
	4	Yefei	Jiang	CHN
	5	Karim	Awada	FRA
	6	Cedric	Dubreuil	FRA
	7	Christopher	Farren	GBR
	8	Duncan	Rowlands	GBR
	9	Daniel	Pietscher	GER
	10	Harutyun	Khachatryan	GER
	11	Pablo	Rejas	ESP
	12	Iason	Atanasiadis	GRE
	13	Massimo	La Rosa	ITA
	14	Alessia	Tognolli	ITA
	15	Wai Lung	Luk	HKG
	16	Chi Ming Andy	Lam	HKG
	17	Kam Kau	Wong	HKG
	18	Balázs	Hamar	HUN
	19	Adrienne	Piecs	HUN
	20	Daria	Marchetti	ITA
	21	Leczek	Malolepszy	POL
	22	Jakub	Leczycki	POL
	23	Khoussein	Ismailov	RUS
	24	John	Moss	USA
	25	Sean	Shumate	USA
	26	Oleksandr	Doroshyn	UKR
	27	Volodimyr	Khrystyk	UKR
	28	TBC	TBC	TBC