ICSSPE News
No.40
January 2004
 
    

ICSSPE Sport Science Award of the IOC President
ICSSPE Sport Science Award of the IOC President
'Winners of the 2002 Sport Science Award of the IOC President with IOC President Dr. Jacque Rogge and ICSSPE President Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper'
left to right: Representing the Cophenhagen Muscle Research Centre Professor Jens Bangsbo and Associate Professor Ylva Hellsten, Dr. Jacque Rogge, Prof. Dr. Roland Renson and Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper

On November 6th, 2003, ICSSPE-President Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper and IOC President Jacques Rogge presented the ICSSPE Sport Science Award of the IOC President . An international jury decided to honour the Belgian sport scientist Prof. Dr. Roland Renson in the Social Sciences category, and the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, directed by Prof. Dr. Bengt Saltin for their work in the field of Biomedical Sciences.

"Museums have to be alive"
Prof. Dr Roland Renson from the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, has undertaken extensive cultural comparative research about the historical development of sport and games. He contributes to the protection of traditional games and sport cultures and supports movement and play behaviour in our society. One practical example of his work is the founding of the Flemish Sport Museum in Leuven, where visitors can rent the exhibited objects. Professor Renson is Honourary President of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport.

Training: Physiology, Metabolism and Health
The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre is honoured for their discovery of training related physiological and metabolic reactions as well as the implications to healthy and ill athletes. Research methods of Prof. Dr. Bengt Saltin are characterised by the combination of surgery and systemic cell level work. For many years, Saltin has been active in research on blood and genetic doping. He is the head of the Danish anti-doping programme, cooperates closely with WADA and is actice in the Medical Committee of the International Ski Federation (FIS). He is also a member of the Danish Academy of Science and has already received many national and international awards, including last year's IOC Olympic Prize.

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