NEWS

16 Dec 2016

SLOVAKIA – VLADIMÍR CERNUŠÁK’S 95TH BIRTHDAY

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Bratislava, December 1, 2016

Honorary president of the Slovak Olympic Committee and honorary member of the International Olympic Committee Vladimir Černušák was offered an extraordinary jubilee for his 95th birthday.

Every year the SOC present an award to its former president Černušák, for his work promoting and disseminating Olympic ideas, especially in the field of educational, but on November 25, it was a special one indeed.

Vladimir Černušák was born November 25, 1921, in Nove Mesto nad Vahom. He graduated in geography and physical education at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Bratislava (1945). In education, he worked successively in the Ministry of Education, at the Faculty of Education at the University of Education, and the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports at the University in Bratislava.

His is a brilliant and long career in the Olympic Movement: senior official in the Czechoslovakian Physical Education Association (1946-1992); president of the Slovak Central Committee of the Czechoslovakian Physical Education Association (1969-1983); vice-president of the Czechoslovakian Olympic Committee (1969-1992); president of the Slovak Olympic Committee (1992-1999) then honorary president (1999-) Member of the IOC from 1981 to 2001, and honorary member since 2002.

The EOC express to Vladimir Černušák, who has always been a good friend of the European Association, their warmest congratulations for this jubilee.