Georg Facius

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His career as a sports leader started when he became President of a major athletic club (AGF) and since then he has been a leader in Danish and international athletics for more than 40 years. Besides that, he is the only international athletic judge from Denmark and one of his many assignments was as an ITO at the World Championships in Athens in 1997. Within the Danish Athletic Federation he has, for the last 8 years been Chairman of the Technical Committee, and before that, among many other tasks, Chairman of the Rules and Legislation Committee as well as International Advisor.
 
Within the European Athletic Association (EAA) he was member of the Competition Committee 1996-2004 and member of the EAA Anti-doping Working Group 2002-2008. He is still an EAA Anti-doping Delegate, International judge and EAA Technical Delegate. Over the years he has been able to introduce a considerable number of changes in the International Competition Rules.
 
In all his work in athletics his main purpose has been to try to improve and ensure the safety and the rights of the athletes, among other things by working for clear and unmistakably competition rules and anti-doping rules so that they provide the greatest possible security for the athletes, but on the other hand, concerning the anti-doping rules, also ensures that athletes who violates the rules, do not escape punishment due to mistakes or shortcomings in procedures or the like.