ISU Congress 2026: Agenda and candidates

[Karen-W]

Albert Hazelhoff NED* 45
Chunlu Wang CHN 45
Cornelis Lepoeter BEL 43
Mona Adolfsen NOR 43
Rafal Tataruch POL 40
Jakov Kitarovic CRO 29 - eliminated

So, now, I guess we're going to have a couple of run-off votes for the 1st & 2nd positions and the 3rd & 4th positions.

 

[Karen-W]

First run-off - results in ANOTHER tie between Hazelhoff and Wang - and the entire room erupts into laughter. I guess they get to vote again, lol. If the second vote results in another tie then they draw lots to determine the winner.

ETA -
Wang 26
Hazelhoff 22

 

[Karen-W]

Second run-off for the 3rd & 4th positions -

Adolfsen 25
Lepoeter 23

 

[Andrea82]

Michela Cesaro ousts Rettstatt easily

 

[Karen-W]

Tech Committee Chair Elections -

Single & Pair - Leena Laaksonen FIN - elected by acclamation as she was the only candidate

Ice Dance -
Michela Cesaro ITA 78
Shawn Rettstatt USA (incumbent) 37

Ouch! No one was happy with the IDTC, lol.

 

[marbri]

Only election I was here for, what a great week I am having

 

[Karen-W]

Synchro

Karin Sherr USA 42
Nina Bischoff SUI 38
Jennifer Betts CAN 36 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Synchro TC Chair final vote -
Bischoff SUI 59 - elected
Sherr USA 58

 

[Karen-W]

Speed Skating TC - Nick Thometz USA is the only candidate so he is elected by acclamation.

Short Track TC - Wim De Deyne BEL is the only candidate after Christoph Milz GER withdrew; therefore De Deyne is elected by acclamation.

 

[Karen-W]

Single & Pair TC Members - 4 positions to be elected
Daniel Delfa ESP 82
Feng Huang CHN 80
Leah Bates AUS 77
Kerstin Kimminus GER 73
Cornel Gheorghe ROU 54
Julia Andreeva RUS 50
Paolo Luigi Pizzocari ITA 28
Albert Zaydman ISR 24 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Daniel Delfa ESP 91
Feng Huang CHN 80
Leah Bates AUS 76
Kerstin Kimminus GER 73
Cornel Gheorghe ROU 57
Julia Andreeva RUS 54
Paolo Luigi Pizzocari ITA 37 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Daniel Delfa ESP 99
Leah Bates AUS 90
Feng Huang CHN 85
Kerstin Kimminus GER 80
Cornel Gheorghe ROU 59
Julia Andreeva RUS 55 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Single & Pair TC Members final vote -

Daniel Delfa ESP 108
Leah Bates AUS 106
Feng Huang CHN 88
Kerstin Kimminus GER 87
Cornel Gheorghe ROU 75 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Ice Dance TC Members - 3 positions to be elected
Csaba Balint HUN 70
Marcin Kozubek POL 69
Marie Bowness CAN 63
David Molina FRA (incumbent) 63
Shawn Rettstatt USA (former Chair) 42
Alla Shekhovtsova RUS 41 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Marie Bowness CAN 82
Csaba Balint HUN 78
Marcin Kozubek POL 76
David Molina FRA (incumbent) 69
Shawn Rettstatt USA (former Chair) 43 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

IDTC final vote -
Marie Bowness CAN 92
Csaba Balint HUN 92
Marcin Kozubek POL 88
David Molina FRA (incumbent) 76 - eliminated

Damn... The ISU Members are really pissed off with the direction the IDTC went in these past couple Olympic cycles, most especially the last one.

 

[marbri]

Marie Bowness CAN 82
Csaba Balint HUN 78
Marcin Kozubek POL 76
David Molina FRA (incumbent) 69
Shawn Rettstatt USA (former Chair) 43 - eliminated

Now I am just feeling selfish and unworthy for all this good news

 

[Karen-W]

Synchro TC Members - 3 positions to be elected

Jennifer Betts CAN 107
Ida Hellstrom FIN 89
Karin Sherr USA 87
Uliana Chirkova RUS 68 - eliminated

 

[Andrea82]

Single and Pair Tech Commitee is mosly new.
But because Laaksonen moved up to Chair unopposed and Bianchetti and Lynch moved to ISU Council and Billow was announced yesterday as head of the new judges evaluation commission.

In Ice Dance they lost every position they contested.

 

[Karen-W]

Now I am just feeling selfish and unworthy for all this good news

Listen, Rettstatt didn't do all that stuff by himself. He was aided & abetted by the entire IDTC - and they ousted Molina too.

 

[clairecloutier]

Lol on Rettstatt

 

[Karen-W]

Speed Skating TC - 3 positions to be elected
Johan Hendrik (Hanjo) Heideman NED 83
Oystein Haugen NOR 65
Beixing Wang CHN 60
Kimberly Weger CAN 43
Sergey Avdeyev KAZ 39
Susan Sandvig Shobe USA 32
Alexei Khatylev BLR 26 - eliminated

 

[Ice_dance_fan]

Now I am just feeling selfish and unworthy for all this good news

She also is corrupt https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...lDecisionforpublication010820201731483825.pdf

 

[marbri]

Listen, Rettstatt didn't do all that stuff by himself. He was aided & abetted by the entire IDTC - and they ousted Molina too.

Yes, I can read

But Rettstatt is particularly bad and his crimes exist long before the position/s he just got booted from And we should leave it there to keep this thread from spiralling.

 

[Karen-W]

Johan Hendrik (Hanjo) Heideman NED 91
Oystein Haugen NOR 73
Beixing Wang CHN 72
Kimberly Weger CAN 47
Sergey Avdeyev KAZ 41
Susan Sandvig Shobe USA 27 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Johan Hendrik (Hanjo) Heideman NED 104
Oystein Haugen NOR 82
Beixing Wang CHN 72
Kimberly Weger CAN 50
Sergey Avdeyev KAZ 43 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Speed Skating TC final vote -
Johan Hendrik (Hanjo) Heideman NED 110
Oystein Haugen NOR 107
Beixing Wang CHN 79
Kimberly Weger CAN 55 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Short Track TC Members - 3 positions to be elected
So Hee Kim KOR 103
Christoph Milz GER 86
Pascal Dion CAN 79
Hao Liu CHN 31
Olzhas Besbayev KAZ 25
Mikhail Sokolov RUS 24 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

So Hee Kim KOR 108
Christoph Milz GER 90
Pascal Dion CAN 83
Hao Liu CHN 42
Olzhas Besbayev KAZ 28 - eliminated

 

[Karen-W]

Short Track TC Members final vote -
So Hee Kim KOR 110
Christoph Milz GER 104
Pascal Dion CAN 91
Hao Liu CHN 46 - eliminated