it is with big sadness to inform you about passing of founder of Euromeetings, Mr. Andreas Brugger. He was the first president since 1979 when the organisation started. More importantly he was for 27 years meeting director of Weltklasse Zurich and made the way for the professional approach in organising our one day meetings. His ideas and concepts will live forever and will be the top example for all of us. At the recent IAAF Awards he recieved the prestigious IAAF President´s Award.

The news came he passed away this morning at age of 91.

RIP Andreas Brugger!

This link describes his achievements: https://zurich.diamondleague.com/en/news/news-article/news/detail/News/res-bruegger-received-iaaf-presidents-award/

And also here the latest article from Neue Zurcher Zeitung: https://www.nzz.ch/sport/res-bruegger-lebte-fuer-die-leichtathletik-ld.1443651

Dear Members of Euromeetings,

let me briefly inform you about the General Assembly which took place on Saturday October 27, 2018 in Lausanne.

Under the leadership of President Rajne Söderberg we went through all agenda, all reports were presented and approved. With great satisfaction we could report that all members paid their fees for 2018, big thanks for that. We went through the Calendar 2019 and briefly touched the 2020 Calendar. We were also happy to have British meets as our members back after short break.

The Board elections were staged afterwards and all proposals were unanimously accepted. So here is your Board for 2018-2022.

President: Alfons Juck (Ostrava)
Vice-President: Cedric Van Branteghem (Brussels)
Honorary Secretary: Jacky Delapierre (Lausanne) Honorary Treasurer : Jari Salonen (Finland)
Members: Spencer Barden (London/Birmingham), Ivana Brkljacic (Zagreb), Marc Corstjens (Heusden/ Liege), Johan Engberg (Karlstad), Hans Klosterman (Hengelo), Marc Osenberg (Dusseldorf).

Also Ulf Saletti (Stockholm) accepted to continue as our Auditor and Judith Bongard as our Secretary.

Outgoing Rajne Söderberg was accepted as Honorary Life President.

Allow me to express big thanks and gratitude to all members who no longer will be part of the board but I hope will be with us with valuable advice, specially Wilfried Meert, Jean-Pierre Schoebel, Fedde Zwanenburg, Terry McHugh and of course Rajne Söderberg. BIG THANKS GENTLEMEN!

The new board can only promise to you more connection, cooperation, interaction, exchange of knowledge and hopefully much more in the coming years.

We will be shortly back with minutes, reports, calendars.

And one thing already now, please save your date for the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow (March 1-3, 2019) where we would be happy to stage our next meeting with you, all members.

The European Calendar 2019 is available at European Athletics Website : http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/pdf/calendar2019.category.pdf

With best regards, Alfons Juck, President