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Preceded by
  
Robert Steadward

Role
  
Athlete

Name
  
Philip Craven

Residence
  
United Kingdom

Nationality
  
British


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Born
  
4 July 1950 (age 73) Bolton, England (
1950-07-04
)

Education
  
Bolton School, University of Manchester

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Sir Philip Craven (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator and former athlete. He is the second and current President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

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Early life and education

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Craven was born on 4 July 1950 in Bolton, England. He was educated at Bolton School Boys' Division, where he was a keen swimmer, cricketer and tennis player. In 1966, at the age of 16, he fell during a rock-climbing expedition at Wilton Quarries, Bolton. The accident left him without the use of his legs. He studied geography at the University of Manchester, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972.

Athlete

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Craven represented Great Britain in wheelchair basketball at five editions of the Paralympic Games, from 1972 to 1988. He also competed in track and field athletics and swimming at the 1972 Games.

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He won gold at the wheelchair basketball World Championships in 1973, and bronze in 1975, as well as two gold medals (1971, 1974) and a silver (1993) at the European Championships. He also won gold at the European Champions Cup in 1994, and gold at the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.

Sports administrator

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In 1980, alongside Horst Strohkendl and Stan Labanowich, Craven played a vital role in the development of a new classification system for wheelchair basketball athletes. Wheelchair basketball rejected its medically based classification system consisting of 3 classes, a system that was founded upon principles that forced athletes to depend on medical examinations. This progress led to a new 4-class functional system, which was democratically voted in 1982. Due to this, wheelchair basketball was increasingly associated with sport as opposed to medicine and rehabilitation, although both still play an important secondary role.

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In 1988, Craven was elected Chairman of the Wheelchair Basketball Section of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), the first athlete to lead the sport worldwide. Craven's striving for self-determination and self-government pave the way for the establishment of wheelchair basketball as an independent federation, when it gave up its previous identification as a basketball section of the ISMGF to become the independent, self-governing International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) in 1993. At the First IWBF Official World Congress 1994 in Edmonton, Alberta, Philip Craven was elected the first President of IWBF, holding the office until 1998. A productive and more formalised working relationship with FIBA, the worldwide governing body for the sport of basketball, was arranged under Craven's administration, to further legitimise wheelchair basketball itself.

Craven was elected as the second President of the International Paralympic Committee in 2001, a position he continues to hold today.

He was knighted in June 2005.

Notable achievements as sports administrator

  • Chairman, Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) (1977–1980, 1984–1987, 1989–1994)
  • Chairman, Classification Committee, ISMWSF Basketball Section (1984–1988)
  • Chief Executive Officer, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) (1994–1998)
  • Performance Director, GBWBA Men's Wheelchair Basketball Team (1998–2002)
  • President, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) (1998–2002)
  • President, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) (since 2001)
  • Foundation board member, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (since 2002)
  • Board member, Olympic Truce Foundation (since 2002)
  • Member, IOC Commission for Culture and Olympic Education (since 2005)
  • Member, IOC 2008 Beijing Co-ordination Commission (since 2002)
  • Member, IOC Sport & Environment Commission (2002–2005)
  • Member, International Olympic Committee (IOC) (since 2003)
  • Member, Executive Board, British Olympic Association (since 2003)
  • Administration Council Member, International Committee for Fair Play (since 2003)
  • Board member, London 2012 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (2005–12)
  • Member, IOC Congress 2009 Commission (2006–09)

    • Ban of Russian paraplegic athletes

    On 7 August 2016, Craven announced that the International Paralympic Committee would ban Russia from participating in the 2016 Paralympic Games for allegedly violating international doping rules. This followed WADA's June 2016 report with accusations of state-sponsored doping in Russia.

    Craven put the blame for the ban on Russia's government, stating that Russia has "catastrophically failed its para athletes," adding, "their medals-over-morals mentality disgusts me." Russia's appeal to the CAS against the ban was rejected, a decision that prompted President Vladimir Putin's public accusations against the international bodies responsible for imposing the ban.

    Other activities

    Craven served as Company Secretary at the British Coal Corporation from 1986 up to 1991.

    He is an Ambassador for Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation, committed to serving peace in the world through sport.

    References

    Philip Craven Wikipedia
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