National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus

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National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus
Flag of Belarus.svg
Olympic rings with white rims.svg
Founded March 22, 1991
Place of foundation Minsk
president Aljaksandr Lukashenka
Board Polina Golovina (General Secretary)
societies 44 Olympic sports federations
Association headquarters 220020 Minsk,
st.Raduzhnaya, 27-2
Homepage noc.by

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus ( NOC Belarus , Belarusian Нацыянальны алімпійскі камітэт Рэспублікі Беларусь ) is the National Olympic Committee in Belarus , based in Minsk . A total of 44 professional associations for Olympic sports, including 36 summer and eight winter sports, are members of the committee.

history

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the National Olympic Committee was founded on March 22, 1991 in Minsk. Almost a year later, on March 9, 1992, it was initially accepted as a temporary member by the IOC before it finally became a full member of the IOC in September 1993. The first president of the committee was Uladzimir Ryshankou , the then Belarusian sports and tourism minister. After his death in 1996, the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka took over the presidency of the National Olympic Committee in May 1997 . Belarus took part for the first time as an independent nation in 1994 in Lillehammer on the occasion of the Winter Olympics . In 1996 the first participation in summer games followed in Atlanta . In 2019 the European Games took place in Minsk .

President

The incumbent President of the NOC Belarus, the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Governance. In: noc.by. NOC Belarus, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Federations. In: noc.by. NOC Belarus, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Milestones. In: noc.by. NOC Belarus, accessed March 23, 2020 .