MINSK, 7th September created on the 22nd of March 1991, the Belarus Olympic Committee this year celebrates its 20th anniversary with a series of events. Among these is the hosting of the 3rd EOC Executive Committee meeting, due to take place in Minsk tomorrow.
EOC president Patrick Hickey and his team will meet at the National Library, the new monumental building inaugurated in 2006 and that has since become the capital’s modern symbol. NOC president Alexander Lukashenko, who is also the president of the Republic of Belarus, plans to pay his European colleagues a visit during the meeting.
The NOC will this month also host the European Women and Sport Seminar that the IOC organises on each continent every year, from the 8th to the 10th.
The climax to the events will be the gala evening on Thursday, when the NOC will pay homage to all of Belarus’s athletes, among them:
– Leanid Geishtor and Sergei Makarenko, first Belarus canoe sprint Olympic champions in the 1960 Games, in Rome,
– Igor Zhelezovski, first Olympic medal (silver, speed skating) in the history of sovereign Belarus (Lillehammer-94)
– Ekaterina Karsten first Olympic Champion in the history of the sovereign Republic of Belarus, with a gold medal at the Atlanta Games in 1996.
Alexander Medved, today Vice President of the Belarus Wrestling Federation, the first person ever to win three gold medals in freestyle wrestling.
