Georges Guelzec (born 22 October 1947) is a French gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the father of Olympic gymnast Fabrice Guelzec.[1]

Georges Guelzec
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1947-10-22) 22 October 1947 (age 76)
President of European Union of Gymnastics
In office
2010–2017
Preceded byDimitrios Dimitropoulos
Succeeded byFarid Gayibov
Sport
SportGymnastics

Guelzec was president of the European Union of Gymnastics from 2010 through 2017. He was elected at the 23rd UEG Congress in 2009, replacing Dimitrios Dimitropoulos as president in 2010.[2] In 2013 he was re-elected to a second term which started in 2014.[3]

He announced his candidacy for president of the International Gymnastics Federation in 2015,[4] but lost to Morinari Watanabe in 2016.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Georges Guelzec". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  2. ^ "French Georges Guelzec - new President of UEG". GYMmedia.com. 7 November 2009.
  3. ^ "UEG: Georges Guelzec re-elected as President". GYMmedia.com. 8 December 2013.
  4. ^ "Georges Guelzec announces his candidature for FIG presidency". AIPSmedia.com. Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive. 24 January 2015. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Japan's Morinari Watanabe elected president of gymnastics federation". ESPN.com. 19 October 2016.
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