{"id":978182,"date":"2026-05-22T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/978182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:15:33","slug":"hakan-cakiroglu-elected-world-archery-europe-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/978182\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakan Cakiroglu elected World Archery Europe President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/9957\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hakan Cakiroglu<\/a> (T\u00fcrkiye) was elected President of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/member\/WAE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Archery Europe<\/a> at the continental association\u2019s 20th Congress on 20 May 2026 in Antalya (T\u00fcrkiye).<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/14965\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Scarzella<\/a> was named Honorary President after two decades of service in the role. First elected in 2006, he served five mandates in total and was presented with a golden arrow in recognition of his long-standing contribution to archery in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Hakan Cakiroglu on his election as President of World Archery Europe. Europe continues to play an important role in the growth and development of our sport, and I look forward to working closely with him and the member associations across the continent in the years ahead,\u201d said World Archery President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/23221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Easton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also like to sincerely thank Mario Scarzella for his many years of dedicated service and leadership. The recognition of his contribution to archery over the last 20 years is richly deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing secretary general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/23248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alessandra Colasante<\/a> was also recognised for her long years of service.<\/p>\n<p>Congress delegates elected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/15000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J\u00f6rg Brokamp<\/a> (Germany) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/43122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julien Megret<\/a> (France) as vice presidents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/20592\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arnoud Strijbis<\/a> (Netherlands), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/19412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rifaat Chabouk<\/a> (Spain), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldarchery.sport\/athlete\/24415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Shalaby<\/a> (Slovenia) were voted in as members of the World Archery Europe Executive Board. Shalaby will serve a shortened two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Elections were also held for several of the organisation\u2019s committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hakan Cakiroglu (T\u00fcrkiye) was elected President of World Archery Europe at the continental association\u2019s 20th Congress on 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":978183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,3976],"class_list":["post-978182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-governance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116619360637777238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}