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
International Center for Apnea Recognition and Education
ELECTIONS FOR 2009 ARE NOW CLOSED ! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS
ICARE Trophies
Winners 2009
UK RUSSIA NEW ZEALAND CANADA
1 Bjarte NYGARD 2 Goran COLAK 3 Martin PETRISKO 4 Jorénik EKSTRÖM
1 Dansk Fridykkerforbund - AIDA Denmark 2 AIDA New Zealand 3 AIDA Finland 4 AIDA Croatia
Best national institution 2009:
Best male revelation 2009:
Apnea Academy, for its global work for freediving
Best captain/coach 2009:
PALMARES OF PREVIOUS ICARE THROPIES
Sébastien NAGEL Nicolas LAPORTE Frédéric BUSSLINGER Marcello DE MATTEIS
Administrative Director Communication Director Sportive Director Technical Director
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Special ICARE Trophy 2009 (prices of the Jury for special situations/circumstances/persons)
Best international judge 2009:
44,71% 42,35% 8,24% 4,70%
46,62% 33,37% 11,69% 8,32%
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 :
NORWAY CROATIA CZECH REPUBLIC FINLAND
NEW ZEALAND CROATIA FINLAND DENMARK
1 Suzy OSLER 2 Lidija LIJIC 3 Saana PARTINEN 4 Maria LIVBJERG
Best female revelation 2009:
Best male freediver 2009:
50% 32,52% 10,05% 7,43%
NEW ZEALAND SWEDEN FRANCE CZECH REPUBLIC
1 Kerian HIBBS 2 Bill STROMBERG 3 Gregory PIAZZOLA 4 Ivo TRUXA
1 Kimmo LAHTINEN 2 Grant GRAVES 3 Peter BOJOVIC 4 Melita ADANY
FINLAND USA SERBIA CROATIA
39,12% 36,96% 19,57% 4,35%
53,35% 31,08% 8,89% 6,68%
44,23% 38,46% 9,62% 7,69%
31,25% 27,08% 20,85% 20,82%
CZECH REPUBLIC NEW ZEALAND RUSSIA NEW ZEALAND
1 Martin STEPANEK 2 William TRUBRIDGE 3 Alexey MOLCHANOV 4 Dave MULLINS
1 Sara CAMPBELL 2 Natalia MOLCHANOVA 3 Kathryn McPHEE 4 Jana STRAIN
Best female freediver 2009: