The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF; ) is a nonprofit organisation of international sports federations that compete in the Summer Olympic Games. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, the same city where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also headquartered.
ASOIF Council The council is composed of a president and six members, all from different federations. One of the six members is elected as vice-president. The president and all the members are elected for 4-year mandates. The executive director is nominated by the council on the proposal of the president as an executive position. The executive director is also on the council, but without voting rights.
Members of the ASOIF Council as of March 2025 are:
Designation Name Country Sport FederationPresident Ingmar De Vos International Equestrian Federation Vice President Nenad Lalović United World WrestlingCouncil Members Ximena Restrepo World Athletics Jean-Christophe Rolland World Rowing Petra Sörling International Table Tennis Federation Morinari Watanabe World Gymnastics Andreas Zagklis International Basketball Federation Executive Director James Carr
Members
International federations may apply to become a full member if they govern a core Summer Olympic sport or govern a sport which featured in the three most recent Summer Olympics. They may apply to become an associate member if they govern a sport included on the programme for future editions of the Summer Olympic Games or govern a sport which has featured in any five editions of the Summer Olympic Games since 1988.
As of June 2025, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) has 30 full member and six associate member international federations.
Full members
Sport International federation AcronymConfederations National associations Year founded President Official website Notes Aquatics World Aquatics WAQU 5 209 1908 Husain Al-Musallam Archery World Archery WA 6 163 1931 Greg Easton Athletics World Athletics WATH 5 214 1912 Sebastian Coe Badminton Badminton World Federation BWF 5 188 1934 Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul Basketball and 3x3 International Basketball Federation FIBA 5 212 1932 Saud Ali Al Thani Canoeing Paddle Worldwide ICF 5 181 1924 paddleworldwide.com Cycling International Cycling Union UCI 5 205 1900 David Lappartient Equestrian International Federation for Equestrian Sports FEI 134 1921 Ingmar De Vos Fencing International Fencing Federation FIE 5 152 1913 Abdel Monem El-Husseiny (interim) Field hockey International Hockey Federation FIH 5 128 1924 Tayyab Ikram Football, futsal and beach soccer International Association Football Federation FIFA 6 211 1904 Gianni Infantino Golf International Golf Federation IGF 147 1958 Annika Sörenstam Gymnastics World Gymnastics WG 5 148 1881 Morinari Watanabe Handball International Handball Federation IHF 6 209 1946 Hassan Moustafa Judo International Judo Federation IJF 207 1951 Marius Vizer Modern pentathlon International Modern Pentathlon Union UIPM 6 110 1948 Rob Stull Roller sports World Skate WSK 5 141 1924 Sabatino Aracu Rowing World Rowing FISA 5 159 1892 Jean-Christophe Rolland Rugby union World Rugby WR 6 117 1886 Brett Robinson Sailing World Sailing WS 140 1907 Li Quanhai Shooting International Shooting Sport Federation ISSF 161 1907 Luciano Rossi Climbing World Climbing WC 95 2007 Marco Maria Scolaris Surfing International Surfing Association ISA 113 1964 Fernando Aguerre Table tennis International Table Tennis Federation ITTF 226 1926 Petra Sörling Taekwondo World Taekwondo WT 212 1973 Choue Chung-won Tennis World Tennis ITF 207 1913 David Haggerty Triathlon World Triathlon TRI 5 172 1989 Antonio Fernández Arimany Volleyball and beach volleyball International Volleyball Federation FIVB 5 222 1947 Fabio Azevedo Weightlifting International Weightlifting Federation IWF 5 192 1905 Mohamed Jalood Wrestling, International grappling and Amateur MMA United World Wrestling UWW 5 180 1912 Nenad Lalović
Associate members
Sport International federation AcronymConfederations National associations Year founded President Official website Notes American football International Federation of American Football IFAF 5 75 1998 Pierre Trochet Baseball, Baseball5 & Softball World Baseball Softball Confederation WBSC 5 143 2013 Riccardo Fraccari Boxing World Boxing WB 5 106 2023 Gennady Golovkin Cricket International Cricket Council ICC 5 105 1909 Jay Shah Lacrosse World Lacrosse WL 4 92 2008 Bob DeMarco Squash World Squash WSF 5 115 1967 Zena Wooldridge
History On 30 May 1983, the 21 International Federations governing the sports included at the time in the programme of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games decided to form the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).
ASOIF was formed, as stated in the first article of its constitution, 'to co-ordinate and to defend the common interests of its members' and to 'ensure close co-operation between its members and members of the Olympic Movement and other organisations'. These needs were identified in order to preserve the unity of the Olympic movement while maintaining 'the authority, independence, and autonomy of the member International Federations.'
The members of ASOIF meet once a year in a General Assembly. The General Assembly usually precedes the joint meeting between the executive board of the International Olympic Committee and the International Federations where a multitude of topics are discussed in the common interests of the Olympic Movement. ASOIF is administered by an executive body, the council, which consists of seven individual members, most of whom are presidents of Summer Olympic International Federations. The ASOIF General Secretariat is located in Lausanne and is administered by the ASOIF Executive Director.
In 2015, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 had proposed five new sports in response to the new flexibility provided by Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC's strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. Olympic Agenda 2020 gives host cities the option of suggesting new sports and events for inclusion in their edition of the Games. Karate, skateboarding, sports climbing, surfing, and baseball/softball were added to the Olympic Programme in Tokyo 2020. ASOIF has amended its statutes to enable IFs "governing sports included within the events programme for a specific edition of the Summer Olympic Games" to become "Associate Members".
On 22 June 2023, the IOC decided to withdraw recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA), in accordance with Rule 3.7 of the Olympic Charter (OC), although boxing will continue to be an Olympic sport for the 2028 Summer Olympics. This was the first-ever international federation to be removed from the Olympic Movement by the IOC. According to the Statutes of ASOIF, as updated in June 2023, the ASOIF Council may provisionally suspend any Full Member's rights (set forth in Article 3.4) if its IOC recognition is suspended, but allow it to retain its Member's rights set forth in Article 3.5. The Council may lift the suspension when such full member's IOC recognition is reinstated (Article 3.13).ASOIF Statutes, 1 June 2023 In April 2024 the ASOIF General Assembly excluded the International Boxing Association (IBA) as an ASOIF Member, in line with the ASOIF Statutes. This move follows the CAS decision of 2 April 2024, dismissing IBA's appeal against the IOC decision to withdraw IBA's recognition as the international federation (IF) for Olympic boxing. Previously, ASOIF had already suspended IBA's Full Member's rights.
See also Winter Olympic Federations International Olympic Committee Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations SportAccord International World Games Association List of international sports federations
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References
External links
International Sports Federations at olympics.com