Annual FISA Junior Coaches Conference great success in Istanbul

Many expert speakers attended this year’s Junior Coaches conference in Istanbul

75 participants from 21 federations took part in the 8th FISA junior coaches conference, which was held last week in Istanbul, Turkey.

Participating nations included Kenya, Singapore, New Zealand, USA and Romania among others. Six female coaches and 15 male coaches from the host nation Turkey also took part in this event, the main theme of which was ?periodisation? 

The three-day conference featured many expert presentations by visiting lecturers including Dieter Altenburg (Head coach German Junior rowing team) who gave a presentation on long-term junior training in Germany as well as FISA development director Thor Nilsen who demonstrated the long-term development of a successful rower.

Other presentations were given by Klaus Matthes, Germany’s leading biomechanical expert in rowing, Youth Rowing Commission members Barb Fenner from Australia and Debby DeAngelis from the USA who each presented junior rowing programs from their respective countries. Murat Beyaz showed with his presentation of an antropometrical study with rowers that the Turkish federation is on an excellent way to improve its way to a high level Rowing federation.

Two FISA council members also presented at the Junior Rowing Conference for the first time ever: Dr Alain Lacoste, chairman of FISA’s medical commission presented an information session on the latest developments in the IOC’s fight against doping and gave an insight of the danger of EPO, and Adaptive rowing commission chairman Josè Nunes presented issues related to Adaptive Rowing. According to Ingrid Dieterle, chairman of the youth rowing commission ?this probably was one of the most impressive lectures we had. Surely it was the most emotional and the coaches showed to be deeply impressed?.

The conference was also the occasion for retiring FISA youth commission chairman Ingrid Dieterle to hand over her position to Algirdas Raslanas who was elected to the chair of the commission during the last FISA Congress last August.