Patrick Baumann (sports official)

Patrick Baumann (born August 5, 1967 in Basel ; † October 14, 2018 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a Swiss lawyer and sports official . He became General Secretary of the World Basketball Federation ( FIBA ) in 2003 , a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2007 and President of Sportaccord in 2016 . In April 2020, it was announced that Baumann had been posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a sponsor.

Career

Baumann was active as a basketball player, coach and referee. After graduating from high school in 1987 in Sanremo , Italy , he completed a law degree in Lausanne , which he completed in 1990. In French Lyon Baumann then studied sports management and made in the USA at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Chicago a master's degree. From 1990 he worked as a lawyer, in 1995 he became Deputy Secretary General of the World Basketball Federation ( FIBA ) and in 2003 he succeeded Borislav Stanković as FIBA General Secretary.

In 2007 he became a member of the International Olympic Committee, worked on the coordination committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics between 2007 and 2012, and sat on the IOC committee for international relations from 2008 to 2014 and on the committee for sport and law from 2010 to 2014.

From 2011 until his death, Baumann was a member of the International Council for Arbitration in Sport and from 2013 he was a representative of the International Olympic Committee at the World Anti-Doping Agency . In 2015 he took over the chairmanship of the organizing committee for the Olympic Winter Youth Games in Lausanne 2020 . Baumann became a member of the evaluation committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics in 2016 ; previously he worked on the corresponding committee for the 2020 Olympics, 2000 and 2001 for the 2008 Olympics in 2013.

In April 2016 he was elected chairman of Sportaccord , the central umbrella organization of the sports associations.

Baumann spoke five languages ​​fluently: German, French, Italian, Spanish and English.

He died of a heart attack at the age of 51 during the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires . He leaves behind his wife and two children.

In December 2018, the final of the Swiss national basketball cup competition was renamed the "Patrick Baumann Cup".

Web links

• Patrick Baumann's curriculum vitae on the FIBA website
• Patrick Baumann's curriculum vitae on the website of the International Olympic Committee

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} FIBA mourns passing of Secretary General and IOC Member Patrick Baumann October 14, 2018, accessed on October 14, 2018
2. ↑ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2020 Announcement. Retrieved April 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Everything for basketball - SWI swissinfo.ch . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.ch [accessed January 7, 2017]).
4. ↑ Les membres . ( tas-cas.org [accessed January 7, 2017]).
5. ↑ Patrick Baumann elected SportAccord President. In: dosb.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Swiss sports official Patrick Baumann suffers a heart attack , nau.ch, October 14, 2018
7. ↑ THE FINAL OF THE SWISS CUP WILL BE NAMED THE “PATRICK BAUMANN CUP” AND WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE TISSOT ARENA IN BIEL IN 2019. In: Swiss Basketball. December 3, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .