Eric Radford elected to ISU Athlete's Commission

[Elizabeth]

Eric & Misha Ge were on the ballot for the election which took place in Saitama - it was close but the ISU has announced that Eric won and will serve until 2023 Worlds!

From: https://www.isu.org/isu-news/news/145-n ... teParam=15

Today Eric Radford from Canada was elected to the ISU Athletes Commission as the Single and Pair Skating representative.

Further to the decision of the 56th ISU Ordinary Congress 2016 in Dubrovnik (CRO) to introduce an ISU Athletes Commission, Radford was elected by the athletes competing at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2019 in Saitama (JPN).

Single and Pair Skating results:

Total number of votes: 50

Total number of blank votes: 0

Number of votes for Eric Radford (CAN): 27
Number of votes for Misha Ge (UZB): 23

The following athletes are already members of the Athletes Commission:

Speed Skating: Douwe de Vries (NED)

Short Track Speed Skating Athlete: Zhou Yang (CHN)

Ice Dance Athlete: Yuri Hulitski (BLR)

The above-mentioned athletes and Eric Radford are elected for the term lasting from the respective 2019 ISU World Championships to the respective 2023 ISU World Championships.

Misha tweeted out congratulations to Eric shortly after the announcement

[Elizabeth]

Eric is in Saitama where there is a Skate Canada booth promoting Montreal Worlds.