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I C A R E
ICARE
 
I
nternational Center for Apnea Recognition and Education
Centre International de Reconnaissance et de Formation en Apnée
   

ICARE is the first International Freediving Center directely affiliated to AIDA International. Its focus is to promote and to develop freediving education and recognition by teaching AIDA standards courses with experienced AIDA Intructors.

ICARE is seated in the Olympic City of Lausanne (Switzerland), but also teach courses all around the World if needed. Courses could be organized during all the year, following requests.



COURSES & ACTIVITIES

ICARE's focus is to promote and to develop freediving education and recognition by teaching AIDA courses and levels, with experienced AIDA Intructors.

The courses could be hosted in Lausanne, Switzerland, during all the year, or anywhere esle all around the World if requested.

ICARE teachs all the AIDA Standards Courses : Freediver's levels, Trainer's levels and International Judges :

Standards Courses
AIDA Elementary Freediver AIDA Trainer 1 *
AIDA Freediver 1 * AIDA Trainer 2 **
AIDA Freediver 2 ** AIDA Trainer 3 ***
AIDA Freediver 3 ***  
AIDA Freediver 4 **** AIDA International Judge E

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ICARE TROPHIES

ICARE issues every year awards to a certain number of recognized representatives in following various categories, with representation currently in existence in some sports and artistic endeavours, the idea is to promote and obtain recognition for our sport.
In order to give popular significance to these awards, and to reflect as much of the general opinion of the freediving community as possible, nominations and elections proceed as follows :

NOMINATIONS
  From January 1st to November 15th each year, anyone interested may submit a recommendation for nomination, with a brief argument, to ICARE's office by mail or by email.
"Spams nominations" will not be taken in consideration.
ICARE's office then selects the four best nominations for each category, according to numbers of nominations and interest in the proposals received, regarding specifical criterias by category.
By category, these four nominations will then be submitted for election.
   

ELECTIONS
 

From November 16th to December 15th each year, any interested individual may participate in the elections in writing, pursuant to the
principles above. One Individual = one vote per category !
Take care, to be considered as valid, a vote should contains a choice for at least 3 of the categories!
The total votes received will count for 50% of the final pick of winners. The remaining 50% of the results will consist of internal votes of ICARE Staff Members.
However, seeing that the majority of ICARE members are also International AIDA Judges, there will be an exception for the category of "Best International Judge", where the total votes received by mail will be consist of 100% of the results.

   

COUNTING OF THE VOTES & RESULTS
  The counting of the votes will be done by ICARE, in the presence and under control of two neutral people who o not belong to the association.
Circulation of the final results and allocation of awards will be done between December 15th and 25th each year.
Given to the human criteria and abstracts that determine the results, as well as the absence of any material or financial issues, any recourse or claims with regards to these results are excluded.
   

ELECTIONS FOR 2009 HAVE NOW STARTED !
VOTE HERE TO NOMINATE CANDIDATES FOR 2009 !



ELECTIONS 2008
 
Best Female Freediver 2009 Sara CAMPBELL UK  
Elisabeth KRISTOFFERSEN Norway  
Lidija LIJIC Croatia  
Kathryn McPHEE New Zealand  
Karoline MEYER Brasil  
Natalia MOLCHANOVA Russia  
Martin STEPANEK Czech Republic  
Jana STRAIN Canada  
     
Best Male Freediver 2009 Guy BREW New Zealand  
Carlos COSTE Venezuela  
Ulf DEXTEGEN Sweden  
Timo KINNUNEN

Finland

 
Federico MANA Italy  
Stéphane MIFSUD France  
Alexey MOLCHANOV Russia  
Dave MULLINS New Zealand  
Herbert NITSCH Austria  
William TRUBRIDGE

New Zealand

 
     
Best Female Revelation 2009 Anako HIROSE Japan  
Lidija LIJIC Croatia  
Maria LIVBJERG Denmark  
Suzy OSLER New Zealand  
Saana PARTINEN Finland  
Jana SKROBOVA Czech Republic  
Alessia ZECCHINI Italy  
     
Best Male Revelation 2009 Goran COLAK Croatia  
Jorénik EKSTRÖM Finland  
Katsuya HAMAZAKI Japan  
Bjarte NYGARD Norway  
Martin PETRISKO Czech Republic  
Frédéric SESSA France  
     
Best National Institution 2009 AIDA Croatia Croatia  
AIDA Italia Italy  
AIDA Finland Finland  
AIDA France France  
AIDA New Zealand New Zealand  
AIDA Sweden Sweden  
Dansk Fridykkerforbund - AIDA Denmark Denmark  
     
Best Captain/Coach 2009 Ricardo BRANCO Brasil  
Kerian HIBBS New Zealand  
Patrick MUSIMU Belgium  
Bill STRÖMBERG Sweden  
     
Best International Judge 2009 Melita ADANY Croatia  
Jonas ANDERSSON Sweden  
Peter BOJOVIC Serbia  
Grant GRAVES USA  
Kimmo LAHTINEN Finland  
     

Special ICARE Trophy 2009
(prices of the Jury for special situations/circumstances/persons)

Apnea Academy, for its global work for freediving Italy  
Stavros KASTRINAKIS, for his work for freediving and AIDA as organizer and safety freediver manager Greece  
 


THANKS FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION !!!


PALMARES OF ICARE TROPHY
Best Female Freediver 2003 - Tanya STREETER USA
  2004 - Hannah STACEY UK
  2005 - Natalia MOLCHANOVA Russia
  2006 - Natalia MOLCHANOVA Russia
  2007 - Karoline MEYER Brasil
  2008 - Kathryn McPHEE New Zealand
     
Best Male Freediver 2003 - Herbert NITSCH Austria
  2004 - Martin STEPANEK Czech Republic
  2005 - Tom SIETAS Germany
  2006 - Tom SIETAS Germany
  2007 - Herbert NITSCH Austria
  2008 - Dave MULLINS New Zealand
     
Best Female Revelation 2003 - Yamina ENEDAHL-MEKKI Sweden
  2004 - Ruth FLORES Venezuela
  2005 - Veronika DITTES Austria
  2006 - Linda PAGANELLI Italy
  2007 - Sara CAMPBELL UK
  2008 - Jana STRAIN Canada
     
Best Male Revelation 2003 - Stig Aavall SEVERINSEN Denmark
  2004 - Tom SIETAS Germany
  2005 - Alexey MOLCHANOV Russia
  2006 - Agustin DI FRANCISCO Argentina
  2007 - Dave MULLINS New Zealand
  2008 - Federico MANA Italy
     
Best National Institution 2003 - Canadian Association for Freediving and Apnea (CAFA - AIDA Canada) Canada
  2004 - United States of America Apnea (USAA - AIDA USA) USA
  2005 - Fédération Suisse d'Apnée Sportive (FSAS) Switzerland
  2006 - NZUA - AIDA New Zealand New Zealand
  2007 - Dansk Fridykkerforbund - AIDA Denmark Denmark
  2008 - AIDA France France
     
Best Captain/Coach 2003 - Kirk KRACK Canada
  2004 - Panos LIANOS Greece
  2005 - Gabriela CONTRERAS Venezuela
  2006 - Karoline MEYER Brasil
  2007 - Mads BECKER JORGENSEN Denmark
  2008 - Grégory PIAZZOLA France
     
Best International Judge 2003 - Sébastien NAGEL Switzerland
  2004 - Sébastien NAGEL Switzerland
  2005 - Marcello DE MATTEIS Italy
  2006 - Nicolas LAPORTE Switzerland
  2007 - Marcello DE MATTEIS Italy
  2008 - Grant GRAVES USA
     
Special ICARE Trophy 2003 - /  
  2004 - Anne-Laure BOTTIER
Member of the Staff,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
France
  2005 - Claude CHAPUIS
Organizer of Nice 2005,
Ex AIDA Technical Officer
& Sébastien NAGEL
Organizer of Renens 2005,
Ex AIDA President
France

&

Switzerland
  2006 - Karoline MEYER, for her complete career and devotion to freediving, as athlete, trainer and judge, since 1996
Brasil
  2007 - Loïc LEFERME (†)
World Champion and Team Captain
& Dimitris VASSILAKIS (†)
International Judge and Freediver
France
&
Greece

  2008 - Tanya STREETER, for her complete career and devotion to freediving and AIDA, as athlete, trainer and judge USA
     


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ICARE'S CONTACT

I C A R E
c/o Sébastien Nagel
Route d'Aigle 20
CH - 1867 OLLON /VD
SWITZERLAND
+41 79 451 52 67
icare.lausanne@bluewin.ch
www.immersion-profonde.ch/index.htm?ICARE.htm

ICARE DIRECTORS OFFICE
Sébastien NAGEL Administrative Director
Nicolas LAPORTE Communication Director
Frédéric BUSSLINGER Sportive Director
Marcello DE MATTEIS Technical Director

   
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