Profession
Director of the Institute of Sports Science |
Position held within the IAAF
IAAF Vice President since
2001
IAAF Council Member since 1995
Vice Chairman of the IAAF
Marketing/Promotion Commission
Member of the IAAF Development
Commission |
Position held in National Federation
Honorary President of DLV
1993-2001 President DLV (German Athletic Federation)
1994-date Vice-President of the German Olympic Committe |
Active sports career: |
Former First League Olympic Handball player
Former Coach of an Olympic Handball Team |
Past and present offices held |
- Professor of Sports Sciences at the Universities of Frankfurt and Tübingen and since
1985 at the University of Darmstadt.
- Head of the Scientific Council of the German Sports Federation (Deutscher Sportbund)
- Member of the Presidency of the German Sports Federation
- Member of the board of the Federal Institute of Sports Science (Cologne)
- Advisor to the government of Germany in its international co-operation policy on sport
- Author on sports systems & development in the following countries: Ecuador,
Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru, Venezuela
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| To find
out more on Helmut Digel, click here to read the interview
published in the February 2001 edition of the IAAF Newsletter. |
