International School Sport Federation

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International School Sport Federation
Fédération Internationale du Sport Scolaire

Abbreviation	ISF
Formation	1972
Type	Sport federation
Purpose	International School Sport Federation organises sport events for youth athletes of age 13–18.
Headquarters	Brussels, Belgium
Official language	French, English, German, Spanish[1]
President
Website	www.isfsports.org

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) is an international sports governing body for school sport. Founded in 1972 with 21 signatory nations (all European), the federation has been organising international competitions to encourage education through sport and student athletes. It has 132^[2] members from five continents.^[3]

ISF is recognised by the International Olympic Committee since 1995 and is a member of SportAccord.^[4][5][6] Its headquarters are based in Brussels, Belgium.^[7]

ISF limits itself to activities with school children between the ages of 13 to 18 (roughly contiguous with high school age).^[3] This distinguishes its role from the longer-established International University Sports Federation, which governs student sport from the ages of 17 to 25.^[8][9]

There are currently 45 recognised ISF sports, with many of them having their own World Schools Championship every two years.^[10] Other sport disciplines are part of the Gymnasiade, also known as School Summer Games, its winter edition School Winter Games or ISF Combat Games.

The first official ISF championships were in football and volleyball, which both took place in 1972, athletics, basketball, handball and skiing championships followed a year later.

The foremost competition held by the ISF is the Gymnasiade – a biennial multi-sport event first held in 1974 in Wiesbaden, Germany that featured athletics, gymnastics and swimming events.

History[]

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Around the mid 1960s, international sporting contests between schools has been increasing. Besides occasional and haphazard meetings between two or more schools, tournaments were beginning to be organised regularly in different disciplines: in handball from 1963, in volleyball from 1969, in football one year later and from 1971 also in basketball. Each of these annual tournaments produced basic regulations and a standing committee.

The large number of international competitions requiring eliminating heats at the national level soon gave rise to a desire to co-ordinate these events, within a specific International Federation. To help promote this idea, the Federal Minister of Education and Arts of the Republic of Austria convened a Conference at Raach in the Autumn of 1971. Here the conditions were discussed for setting up a European School Sport Federation.

After very lengthy debates, the project was approved. However, bearing future development possibilities in mind, the ISF was not limited to European countries alone. A Provisional Committee, the members of which were chosen from among the 21 nations present, was set up, and the meeting of the constituent General Assembly was fixed for 4 June 1972 at Beaufort/Luxembourg. This meeting adopted the Statutes and proceeded to elect the members of the first Executive Committee.^[11]

Vision and Values[]

Sport can greatly contribute to the physical, social and intellectual development of youngsters. Sport is a prevailing tool for the promotion of mutual understanding, peace and tolerance. The power of sport can break down cultural, religious and ideological barriers, no matter how big.

ISF Structure[]

ISF General Assembly[]

The General Assembly brings together ISF’s school sport federation members which meet every two years. In the assembly, members elect Executive Committee members for a four-year period, and approves the budget and the programme proposed by the Executive Committee. The most recent General Assembly was held in May 2016 at Marmaris, Turkey.

ISF Management Committee[]

It meets periodically when convened by the President, to carry out the business of the ISF between meetings of the Executive Committee. Twice a year, the Management Committee meets with the Continental Presidents. Following is the ISF Management Committee for the term 2016–2020.^[12]

FUNCTION	NAME	COUNTRY
President	Laurent Petrynka	France
Vice-President	Youssef Belqasmi	Morocco
	Robson Aguiar	Brazil
	Xue Yanqing	China
Secretary General/CEO	Hrvoje Čustonja	Croatia
Sports Director	Josip Košutić	Croatia

ISF Executive Committee[]

ISF Executive Committee is composed of 25 members. It meets twice a year to take the decisions necessary for the proper functioning of ISF. Following is the ISF Executive Committee for the term 2016–2020.

FUNCTION	NAME	COUNTRY
President	Laurent Petrynka	France
Vice-President	Youssef Belqasmi	Morocco
	Robson Aguiar	Brazil
	Xue Yanqing	China
Secretary General/CEO	Hrvoje Čustonja	Croatia
President Africa	Mamadou Souleymane Kone	Ivory Coast
President America	Dr. Roger J. Goudy	United States
President Asia	Santi Pawai	Thailand
President Europe	Nicos Megalemos	Cyprus
President Oceania	Graeme Jennings	Australia
Sports Director	Josip Košutić	Croatia
Assessor	Alan Abaev	Russia
	Abdulrahman Al-Muftah	Qatar
	Arman Ayvazyan	Armenia
	Ms. Sophie Bordet	Peru
	Ms. Julia Boyanova	Bulgaria
	Guy Dagan	Israel
	Stylianos Daskalakis	Greece
	Roman Greba	Ukraine
	Lauri Luik	Estonia
	Abdoulaye Bamba Mbaye	Senegal
	Rajesh Mishra	India
	David Exovers Ngugi	Kenya
	Nurzhan Nurakhmetov	Kazakhstan
	Zeljko Tanaskovic	Serbia

ISF Committees[]

Committees assist and advise the Executive Committee in the overall administration of the ISF. The Committees include:

ISF Sport Committee	ISF Development and Cooperation Committee
ISF Marketing and Communication Committee	ISF Ethic and Legal Committee
ISF Education and Legacy Committee	ISF Athletes and Youth Committee

Events[]

Number	Events	First
1		1974
2		2018
3		2021
4		2017
5		2019
6		2014
7		2019
8		2019
9		2021
10		2022
11		2019

Gymnasiade[]

Gymnasiade is the biggest school sport event for youth athletes aged 15–18. It is being held every two (even) years, hosts between 12-18 different sport disciplines and welcomes over 3000 pupils from all over the World.

ISF School Summer Games[]

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date
1		Wiesbaden	West Germany	23–28 September
2		Orléans	France	21–27 June
3		Izmir	Turkey	18–24 July
4		Turin	Italy	1 - 7 June
5		Lille	France	1 - 6 June
6		Florence	Italy	5 - 9 June
7		Nice	France	2 - 7 June
8		Barcelona	Spain	3–9 June
9		Bruges	Flanders	20–27 May
10		Nicosia	Cyprus	14–21 May
11		Shanghai	China	12 -19 October
12		Caen	France	27 May - 3 June
13		Athens/Thessaloniki	Greece	26 June – 3 July
14	2009	Doha	Qatar	7 – 12 December
15	2013	Brasília	Brazil	28 November – 4 December
16	2016	Trabzon	Turkey	11–18 July
17	2018	Marrakech	Morocco	2–9 May
18		Jinjiang	China	17–24 October

Gymnasiade 2018 hosted 18 sport competitions:

• Athletics
• Gymnastics
  • Artistic Gymnastics
  • Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Aerobic Gymnastics
• Swimming
• Archery
• Fencing
• Judo
• Karate
• Wrestling
• Chess
• Tennis
• Golf
• Petanque
• Boxing
• Surfing
• Cycling

ISF World School Summer Games (Summer High School Games) U15[]

Edition	Year	City	Country	Dates	Sports
1	2021	Belgrade	Serbia	11 – 19 September	14

ISF School Winter Games[]

ISF School Winter Games consisted of the following sport disciplines:

• Alpine skiing
• Biathlon
• Curling
• Figure skating
• Freestyle skiing
• Ski jumping
• Snowboard
• Taekwondo

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date
1	2018	Grenoble	France	5–10 February

Source :^[13]

ISF Combat Games[]

• 2017 ISF Combat Games consisted of 4 combat sports: Judo, Karate, Taekwondo and Wrestling.
• In 2017, 300 athletes from 6 countries (India, China, Russia, Brazil, UAE and France) attended the ISF Combat Games.

ISF Combat Games consist of the following sport disciplines:

• Judo
• Karate
• Taekwondo
• Wrestling

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date
1		Agra	India	7–14 July
2		Budapest	Hungary	16–20 June

From August 22–26, 2018, the first ever World Schools Championships in sambo took place in Oryol, Russian Federation.

Source :^[14]

ISF Inclusive Games[]

http://isfsports.org/inclusive-games-0

First games in 2019.

• 2019 Póvoa de Varzim Portugal

ISF Educational Games[]

http://isfsports.org/educational-games-0

• 1st 2014 in Greece
• 2nd 2015 in Greece
• 3rd 2016 in Greece
• 4th 2017 in Greece
• 5th 2018 in Greece
• 6th 2019 in Greece
• 7th 2020 in Greece

ISF E-Sport Games[]

First games in 2019.

• 2019 Kiev Ukraine
• 2020 Kiev Ukraine
• 2021 Kiev Ukraine

ISF World Cool Games[]

First games in 2019.

• 2019 Kiev Ukraine
• 2020 Kiev Ukraine
• 2021 Kiev Ukraine

ISF Universal Teacher Games[]

First games in 2021.

ISF Beach Games[]

https://www.isfsports.org/calendar

2020 Cancelled , 2022 Argentina.

ISF She Runs[]

ISF Active Girls' Lead

1st - 2019 Paris France

2nd - 2021 Brussels Belgium

Regional[]

Pan American[]

3rd - Aracaju - Brazil 2017

European[]

https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/87332

First Caen, France 2-8 July 1992

ISF World Schools Championships[]

Around the 1960s international sporting contests between schools were on the increase. Besides occasional and haphazard meetings between two or more schools, tournaments were beginning to be organised regularly in different disciplines: in handball from 1963, in volleyball from 1969, in football from 1970 and from 1971 also in basketball.

Today 21 sports have a separate World Schools Championship (WSC) with 10-12 championships being held per year. Each World Schools Championship usually last from 3–7 days. Yearly, more than 10.0000 pupils from all over the World take part in ISF World Schools Championship. Until 2017, only 21 Sports have a separate World School Championship (WSC). Other sports exist in Games (Summer , Winter or Combat) and havent separate WSC.

Number	Event	First Edition	Last Edition
Main Sports
1		1973	24th (2017)
2	World Schools Cross Country Championship	1975	23rd (2018)
3		1991	12th (2017)
Combat Sports
4		2018	1st (2018)
Team Sports
5		2014	3rd (2018)
6		1973	24th (2017)
7		2011	4th (2017)
8		2018	1st (2018)
9		2019	1st (2019)
10		1972	26th (2017)
11		2007	5th (2018)
12	World School Handball Championship	1973	24th (2018)
13		1972	23rd (2018)
Winter Sports
14		1973	23rd (2016)
Other Sports
15		1998	18th (2018)
16		1987	17th (2017)
17		2019	1st (2019)
18		1991	15th (2018)
19		1995	9th (2017)
20		2013	3rd (2017)
21		2019	1st (2019)
22		2019	1st (2019)
23		2020	1st (2020)

Source :^[15]

Members[]

Code	Country	Association
ALB	Albania	Albanian School Sport Federation
ALG	Algeria
AND	Andorra	Secretariat d'état aux sports, de la jeunesse et du volontariat
ARG	Argentina
ARM	Armenia
AUT	Austria	Bundesministerium für Bildung und Frauen
AUS	Australia
AZE	Azerbaijan	Ministry of Youth and Sport
BLR	Belarus
BAN	Bangladesh
BAH	Bahamas
BEN	Benin
BOL	Bolivia
BOT	Botswana
BRA	Brazil
BUL	Bulgaria
BUR	Burkina Faso
CMR	Cameroon
CPV	Cape Verde
CHI	Chile
CHN	People's Republic of China
TPE	Chinese Taipei
COL	Colombia
COM	Comoros
COD	Democratic Republic of the Congo
CRO	Croatia
CYP	Cyprus
CZE	Czech Republic	Czech school sports clubs association
DEN	Denmark	Association
DOM	Dominican Republic
DGB	Eastern Belgium
ENG	England
GEQ	Equatorial Guinea
EST	Estonia
FIN	Finland	Finnish School Sport Federation
FLA	Flemish Community
FRA	France
CFB	French Community of Belgium
PYF	French Polynesia
GAB	Gabon
GAM	Gambia
GEO	Georgia	Children and Youth Sports National Federation of Georgia
GER	Germany
GHA	Ghana
GRE	Greece	Directorate of Physical Education
GUA	Guatemala
GUI	Guinea
HAI	Haiti
HKG	Hong Kong, China	Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation
HUN	Hungary
IND	India
IRI	Islamic Republic of Iran
ISR	Israel	Ministry of education, culture and sports
IRL	Ireland
ITA	Italy
CIV	Ivory Coast
JAM	Jamaica
JOR	Jordan
KGZ	Kyrgyz Republic	School Sport Federation of Kyrgyz Republic
KAZ	Kazakhstan
KEN	Kenya
KOS	Kosovo	of the Republic of Kosovo
KUW	Kuwait
LAT	Latvia
LBN	Lebanon	Ministry of Education and Higher Education
LIE	Liechtenstein	Liechtensteinische landesverwaltung
LIT	Lithuania
LUX	Luxembourg
MKD	Macedonia
MAC	Macau, PRC
MAD	Madagascar
MLI	Mali
MLT	Malta
MRI	Mauritania
MGL	Mongolia
MNE	Montenegro
MAR	Morocco
NEP	Nepal
NED	Netherlands
NZL	New Zealand
NCA	Nicaragua
NIG	Niger
NGA	Nigeria
NOR	Norway
OMA	Oman
PAK	Pakistan
PAR	Paraguay	Secretaria Nacional de Deportes
PER	Peru
POL	Poland
POR	Portugal	Gabinete Coordenador Desporto Escolar
PUR	Puerto Rico
ROU	Romania
QAT	Qatar	Qatar Sport School Federation
RSR	Republic of Srpska
ROU	Romania
RUS	Russia
STP	São Tomé and Principe
KSA	Saudi Arabia	Ministry of Education
SCO	Scotland
SEN	Senegal
SRB	Serbia
SIN	Singapore
SLO	Slovenia
SVK	Slovakia
RSA	South Africa
ESP	Spain
SRI	Sri Lanka
SUR	Suriname
SWE	Sweden
SUI	Switzerland
TAN	Tanzania
TUN	Tunisia
TUR	Turkey
TKM	Turkmenistan	School Sport Federation of Turkmenistan
THA	Thailand	Ministry of Tourism and Sports
UAE	United Arab Emirates
UGA	Uganda
UKR	Ukraine
USA	United States	Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, Inc.)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website