Panathlon International


Panathlon International is a global umbrella organisation of "Panathlon clubs", which are nonprofit non-governmental organisations promoting sports ethics and fair play and opposing discrimination and politicisation in sport. PI is recognised by the International Olympic Committee and is a member of the International Fair Play Committee and associate member of the Global Association of International Sports Federations. The name "Panathlon" is from Greek pan "all" + athlon "sport".
PI has more than 300 clubs in 30 countries in 4 continents, with a head office in Rapallo, Italy. As well as promotional work, PI and its members support research on topics concerning sport and its relations with society.

History

The first club was created on 12 June 1951 in Venice by Mario Viali of the Italian National Olympic Committee and some friends, mostly members of the local Rotary Club. Ludovico Foscari coined the name "Panathlon" and the motto ludis iungit, Latin for " unites by means of sport". In 1953 seven clubs formed the Italian Panathlon Association. In 1960 Panathlon International was formed by members from Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and France.
there is no Panathlon International club in the United Kingdom. On that date PI met with the Panathlon Foundation, a UK charity promoting youth disabled sport, to discuss co-operation with a view to enabling a UK PI club to use the name "Panathlon".

Goals

As an independent organization, Panathlon aims at:
Panathlon's actions on integrity in sport have been fuelled by the fact that sport is often beset by poor practice, corruption, and harmful behaviours. Sport has to remain credible and must be continuously proactive if it wants to sustain its positive values. Panathlon is therefore considering what should be done to make that the positive potentials of sport can be prevail in the complex commercialized and globalized sporting landscape of the 21st century. Its position is that it would be naïve to think that sport automatically elicits and promotes positive effects and that remaining silent on obvious aberrations would condone complicity.
A modern integrity management framework aims at preventing serious integrity violations on the one hand, and promoting integrity through stimulating understanding, commitment and capacity for ethical decision making on the other hand. To direct its actions, Panathlon International adopts the “values-based approach” which is about supporting and stimulating and limits itself to stimulate sport federations and sport authorities to address controlling and sanctioning. The Panathlon Declaration of Ethics in Youth Sports adopted by UNICEF, the IOC, SportAccord, international federations, organizations as well as National Olympic Committees exemplifies this values-based approach.

Presidents

Flambeau d'Or

The Flambeau d'Or is an award that is presented every four years. It aims to reward distinguished international sport personalities. It is awarded in three categories for outstanding achievements in sport promotion, sport culture and organisation.
YearPromotionCultureOrganisation
1972Giulio OnestiAvery BrundageWilli Daume
1976Marc HodlerLord KillaninJuan Antonio Samaranch
1980Mohamed MzaliNikolaos NissiotisBeppe Croce
1984João HavelangeFranco CarraroMario Vazquez Rana
1988Un Yong KimGiulio AndreottiAnselmo Lopez
1992Jacques RoggeRaymond GafnerPasqual Maragall y Mira
1996PeléHans ErniGerhard Heiberg
2000Albert II, Prince of MonacoHe ZhenliangMichael Knight
2004Sergey BubkaBruno GrandiGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
2008Oscar PistoriusGudrun Doll-TepperHein Verbruggen

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