Luciano Buonfiglio is the new president of CONI, beating Luca Pancalli
The new number one of the Italian Olympic Committee Buonfiglio is originally from Naples, where he was born on 15 November 1950. Since 2005 he has been the president of Fick (Italian Canoe and Kayak Federation)
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Luciano Buonfiglio is the new Coni president. The National Elective Council of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), which met this morning (26 June) at the "Giulio Onesti" Olympic Preparation Centre in Rome, has therefore chosen the successor to Giovanni Malagò, who after 12 years officially leaves Palazzo H (he remains President of the Milan-Cortina Foundation and a member of the IOC). Buonfiglio was elected president with 47 votes, against the 34 obtained by Luca Pancalli.
L’identikit
The new number one of the Italian Olympic Committee, Buonfiglio is originally from Naples, where he was born on 15 November 1950 and moved to Milan at the age of 15. A former rower, he has participation in the 1976 Montreal Games to his credit. He has been the president of Fick (Italian Canoe and Kayak Federation) since 2005 and has also worked in the insurance-banking sector.
Running for the seat were seven other candidates: Luca Pancalli, former president of the Cip (Italian Paralympic Committee) since 2000, Franco Carraro, Duccio Bartalucci, Mauro Checcoli, Pierluigi Giancamilli, Carlo Iannelli and Giuseppe Macchiola. 80 national councillors were present out of the 81 voting members.
The alignments
.The ranks, however, had been fairly clearly defined in recent weeks in favour of Buonfiglio and the Malagò area. Many Federation presidents had pledged their support to their Fick colleague, from Marco Di Paola (Equestrian Sports) to Francesco Ettorre (Federvela), from Stefano Mei (Athletics) to Laura Lunetta (Dance Sport), from Sabatino Aracu (Rotational Sports) to Federico Bergamini (Federkombat), from Andrea Mancino (Federbiliardo) to Alberto Miglietta (Pesistica), from Marco Mazzieri (Federbaseball) to Luciano Rossi (Tiro a volo), from Cordiano Dagnoni (Ciclismo) to Davide Tizzano (Canottaggio), from Stefano Podini (Federhandball) to Davide Battistella (Arrampicata), as well as various representatives of associated sports disciplines and local sports bodies.
Voting packages
.In favour of former Paralympic Committee president Pancalli, class of '64, former Paralympic pentathlete and swimmer, who has always rejected the label of 'candidate of politics' and in particular the Minister for Sport and Youth Andrea Abodi, however, Malagò's great opponents have joined forces, namely Angelo Binaghi (Federtennis) and Paolo Barelli (Swimming), as well as Giuseppe Manfredi (Volleyball), Claudio Ponzani (Water Skiing), Carlo Beninati (Badminton), Angelo Cito (Taekwondo), Fabrizio Bittner (Pentathlon) and Maurizio Casasco (Sports Physicians).
