Philip Craven

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Philip Craven (2008)

Sir Philip Craven , MBE (born July 4, 1950 in Bolton / England ) is a former British wheelchair basketball player and since 2001 President of the International Paralympic Committee , which organizes the Paralympic Games , among other things .

Life

Childhood and youth

From 1961 to 1969, Phillip Craven attended the Bolton School in Bolton , Greater Manchester . In 1966, at the age of 16, Phillip Craven had an accident on a climbing tour and has been dependent on a wheelchair ever since. Just two days after his accident, he saw a group of young people playing wheelchair basketball from his hospital bed and so began his interest in this sport. He studied geography at Manchester University from 1969 to 1972 and graduated with an academic degree . At the university he trained intensively in wheelchair basketball and swimming.

Career as an athlete

In addition to wheelchair basketball, Philip Craven also practiced swimming and table tennis. However, he had his greatest successes as an athlete in wheelchair basketball. At his first Commonwealth Games in 1970 he received a gold medal. With the British national wheelchair team, he became European champion in 1971 and 1974 and world champion in 1973. Two years later he finished third with his team. From 1972 he played in the French club Club Olympique de Kerpape and won the national championship twice with them. He returned to Great Britain in 1974 for professional reasons and worked from 1974 for the British Coal Corporation , where he was CEO from 1986 to 1991. He continued his sports career. For the British national team, he completed more than 200 games.

Craven took part in a total of five Paralympic Games as a basketball player. His first games were the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, in which he also took part as a swimmer. The last time he was a participant was at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul.

His last successes were at the European Championships in 1993, where he finished second with his team, and at the European Champions Cup in 1994, where his team was victorious.

As a sports official

Craven had been on the board of the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) since 1977 , of which he was a member until 1994 with interruptions. He also held other offices in the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF).

He was a member of the board of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) from 1984 to 1988. He was Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 1998 and President of the Association from 1988 to 2002. In 2001 Philip Craven was elected President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which, among other things, organizes the Paralympic Games . Since 2003 he has also been a member of the International Olympic Committee . As a board member, he was involved in the preparation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012 . In 2013 he was confirmed as President of the IPC by an overwhelming majority. He started his fourth and final term in office.

Honors

In 2005, Craven was raised to a Knight Bachelor degree by Queen Elizabeth II , after he was named Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for his services to wheelchair basketball . He has also received a number of honorary doctorates in the UK. He is also a member of the French Legion of Honor , holder of the two Russian orders, Order of Friendship and Order of Honor, as well as the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

In 2017 the Federal President awarded him the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Private life

Philip Craven married a French woman on July 6, 1974, with whom he has two children.

Honors and Achievements

Sporting successes

  • 1970: Commonwealth Games - gold medal
  • 1971: European Championship - gold medal
  • 1972: Paralympic Summer Games : Participants in swimming and wheelchair basketball
  • 1973: World Championship in Wheelchair Basketball: World Champion
  • 1975: World Championship in wheelchair basketball: bronze medal
  • 1976: Paralympic Summer Games : Participants in wheelchair basketball
  • 1980: Paralympic Summer Games : Participant in wheelchair basketball
  • 1984: Paralympic Summer Games : Participant in wheelchair basketball
  • 1988: Paralympic Summer Games : Participant in wheelchair basketball
  • 1993: European championship in wheelchair basketball: Vice European champion
  • 1994: European Champions Cup: gold medal

Honorary title

Web links

Commons : Philip Craven  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Grimm: Sir Philip Craven . In: Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal . March 2016, p. 66-70 ( aspetar.com [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b Sir Philip CRAVEN, MBE. Olympic.org, accessed September 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b 100 Inspiring Minds - Sir Philip Craven. Bolton School, accessed September 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d IPC ACP Executive Leadership. Paralympic.org, accessed September 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Sir Philip Craven re-elected as IPC President. Rollingplanet.net, November 24, 2013, accessed September 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Announcement of the awards / Announcement of the awards from April 1, 2017. Retrieved on April 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ Sir Philip Craven Awarded 10th WTF Honorary Black Belt. World Taekwondo Federation , April 9, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Craven, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craven, Phil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British wheelchair basketball player and head of the International Paralympic Committee
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolton