Philip Craven
{{Short description|English sports administrator}}
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| honorific-prefix = Sir
| name = Philip Craven
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE|size=100%}}
| image = Sir Philip Craven, MBE.jpg
| caption = Craven in 2012
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| office = 2nd President of the International Paralympic Committee
| term_end = 8 September 2017
| predecessor = Robert Steadward
| successor = Andrew Parsons
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|7|4}}
| birth_place = Bolton, England, United Kingdom
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| nationality = British
| spouse = Jocelyne
| children = 2, Gaëlle, Yann
| residence = United Kingdom
| education = Bolton School
| alma_mater = University of Manchester
| occupation = Sports administrator
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Sir Philip Lee Craven {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete. Between 2001 and 2017 he was the second president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Early life and education
Craven was born on 4 July 1951 in Bolton, England.{{cite news |title=Paralympics 2012: Games set 'to take off' says IPC president |newspaper=BBC |date=26 August 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19387553 |access-date=23 November 2012}} He was educated at Bolton School Boys' Division, where he was a keen swimmer, cricketer and tennis player. In 1966, at the age of 16, he fell during a rock-climbing expedition at Wilton Quarries, Bolton. The accident left him without the use of his legs.{{cite web | url=https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/about-liverpool-john-moores-university/fellows/honorary-fellows-2009/philip-craven | title=Sir Philip Craven MBE | last=Sanderson | first=Frank | website=Liverpool John Moores University | date= | accessdate=27 January 2022 }} He studied geography at the University of Manchester, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972.{{cite web|title=CRAVEN, Sir Philip (Lee)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10000307|website=Who's Who 2016|access-date=20 September 2016|date=November 2015}}
Athlete
Craven represented Great Britain in wheelchair basketball at five editions of the Paralympic Games, from 1972 to 1988. He also competed in track and field athletics and swimming at the 1972 Games.{{cite news | url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1022872/sir-philip-craven-president-of-the-international-paralympic-committee-sets-out-three-key-challenges-for-the-next-25-years | title=Sir Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee, sets out three key challenges for next 25 years | last=Rowbottom | first=Mike | website=Inside the Games | date=28 September 2014 | accessdate=3 February 2022 }}
He won gold at the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in 1973, bronze in 1975, and two gold medals (1971, 1974) and a silver (1993) at the European Championships. He also won gold at the European Champions Cup in 1994, and gold at the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.[http://www.paralympic.org/sites/default/files/document/120131155118711_Philip%2BCraven_1.pdf Biography], International Paralympic Committee
=Results at the Paralympic Games=
| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%" |
| Games
!Events !Result !Rank |
|---|
| 1972
|Athletics: Men's 100m (wheelchair, category 3) |align="center"|29.1 s. |align="center"|24 (of 41) |
| 1972
|Athletics: Men's slalom (category 3) |align="center"|75.4 s. |align="center"|24 (of 28) |
| 1972
|Swimming: Men's 50m breaststroke (category 3) |align="center"|59.45 s. |align="center"|6 (of 13, in the heats) |
| 1972
|align="left"|Group A: lost to Argentina 48:56, won vs Sweden 44:38, won vs Netherlands 39:31, won vs Italy 40:17 |align="center"|4 (of 19) |
| 1976
|align="left"|Group C: lost to Argentina 48:52, won vs West Germany 33:28, tied vs Spain 38:38, won vs Denmark 74:22 |align="center"|no rank |
| 1980
|align="left"|Group D: lost to France 36:63, lost to Sweden 43:71, won vs Egypt 122:24 |align="center"|12 (of 17) |
| 1984
|align="left"|Group C: won vs France 48:47, won vs Australia 62:42, lost to Japan 52:62, won vs Egypt 108:13 |align="center"|no rank |
| 1988
|align="left"|Group A: lost to USA 38:52, lost to Sweden 39:42, won vs Brazil 61:21 |align="center"|11 (of 17) |
Sports administrator
In 1980, alongside Horst Strohkendl and Stan Labanowich, Craven played a vital role in the development of a new classification system for wheelchair basketball athletes. Wheelchair basketball rejected its medically based classification system consisting of 3 classes, a system that was founded upon principles that forced athletes to depend on medical examinations. This progress led to a new 4-class functional system, which was democratically voted in 1982. Due to this, wheelchair basketball was increasingly associated with sport as opposed to medicine and rehabilitation, although both still play an important secondary role.
In 1988, Craven was elected Chairman of the Wheelchair Basketball Section of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), the first athlete to lead the sport worldwide. Craven's striving for self-determination and self-government pave the way for the establishment of wheelchair basketball as an independent federation, when it gave up its previous identification as a basketball section of the ISMGF to become the independent, self-governing International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) in 1993. At the First IWBF Official World Congress 1994 in Edmonton, Alberta, Philip Craven was elected the first President of IWBF, holding the office until 1998. A productive and more formalised working relationship with FIBA, the worldwide governing body for the sport of basketball, was arranged under Craven's administration, to further legitimise wheelchair basketball itself.
=Notable achievements as sports administrator=
- Chairman, Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) (1977–1980, 1984–1987, 1989–1994)
- Chairman, Classification Committee, ISMWSF Basketball Section (1984–1988)
- Chief Executive Officer, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) (1994–1998)
- Performance Director, GBWBA Men's Wheelchair Basketball Team (1998–2002)
- President, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) (1998–2002)
- President, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) (2001-2017)
- Foundation board member, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (since 2002)
- Board member, Olympic Truce Foundation (since 2002)
- Member, IOC Commission for Culture and Olympic Education (since 2005)
- Member, IOC 2008 Beijing Co-ordination Commission (since 2002)
- Member, IOC Sport & Environment Commission (2002–2005)
- Member, International Olympic Committee (IOC) (since 2003)
- Member, Executive Board, British Olympic Association (since 2003)
- Administration Council Member, International Committee for Fair Play (since 2003)
- Board member, London 2012 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (2005–12)
- Member, IOC Congress 2009 Commission (2006–09)
President of the International Paralympic Committee
Craven was elected as the second President of the International Paralympic Committee in 2001. He oversaw 8 Paralympic games with his first being Salt Lake City in 2002 and his last being in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Sir Philip became the first President to have the Paralympics games hosted in his home country, with the UK in 2012.
On 7 August 2016, Sir Philip announced that the International Paralympic Committee would ban Russia from participating in the 2016 Paralympic Games for allegedly violating international doping rules.{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/07/sport/russia-paralympic-athletes-banned/index.html?eref=rss_topstories | title=Russian Paralympic athletes banned from competing in Rio | last1=Brocchetto | first1=Marilia | last2=Patterson | first2=Thom | website=CNN | date=7 August 2016 | accessdate=1 February 2022 }} This followed WADA's June 2016 report{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/16/sport/wada-russia-doping-report/ | title=New WADA report provides fresh allegations on Russian doping | last=Sweetman | first=Tom | website=CNN | date=16 June 2016 | accessdate=1 February 2022 }} with accusations of state-sponsored doping in Russia.
Sir Philip put the blame for the ban on Russia's government, stating that Russia has "catastrophically failed its para athletes," adding, "their medals-over-morals mentality disgusts me." Russia's appeal to the CAS against the ban was rejected,{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/23/sport/rio-2016-paralympics-cas-russia-ban-upheld | title=Russia banned from Paralympic Games after appeal failure | last=Masters | first=James | website=CNN | date=23 August 2016 | accessdate=3 February 2022 }} a decision that prompted President Vladimir Putin's public accusations against the international bodies responsible for imposing the ban.{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/25/sport/vladimir-putin-paralympics-ipc/index.html | title=Vladimir Putin: IPC has 'humiliated itself' with Russian Paralympic ban decision | last1=Sweetman | first1=Tom| last2=Eastaugh | first2=Sophie | website=CNN | date=25 August 2016 | accessdate=17 January 2022 }}
Other activities
Craven served as Company Secretary at the British Coal Corporation from 1986 up to 1991.
He is an Ambassador for Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation,{{cite web | url=http://www.peace-sport.org/peace-and-sport-ambassadors/ | title=Peace and Sport Ambassadors | last= | first= | website=Peace and Sport | date=6 April 2019 | accessdate=8 February 2022 }} committed to serving peace in the world through sport.
In the 1991 New Years Honours List he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II "for services to sport for the disabled."United Kingdom list:{{London Gazette |issue=52382 |date=28 December 1990 |pages=13 |supp=y}} In the 2005 Birthday Honours, Craven was Knighted by the Queen for services to Paralympic Sport.{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/4081464.stm | title=Top honours for wheelchair stars | last= | first= | website=BBC Sport | date=10 June 2015 | accessdate=8 February 2022 }}
In 2017, Sir Philip was awarded the Paralympic Order.{{cite web|last1=Etchells|first1=Daniel |title=Outgoing IPC President Sir Philip Awarded Paralympic Order|website=Inside the Games |date=7 September 2017 |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1055076/outgoing-ipc-president-sir-philip-awarded-paralympic-order|access-date=2 October 2017}}
In June 2018, Sir Philip was appointed to the board of directors of the Toyota Motor Corporation.{{cite news |last1=Mackay |first1=Duncan |title=Former IPC President Sir Philip Craven appointed to Board of Toyota Motor Corporation |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1062193/former-ipc-president-sir-philip-craven-appointed-to-board-of-toyota-motor-corporation |access-date=27 May 2021 |agency=Inside the Games |date=March 3, 2018}}
See also
- Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [https://archive.today/20121228110503/http://blog.paralympic.org/ IPC President`s Blog]
- [http://www.olympic.org/en/content/The-IOC/Members/Sir-Philip-CRAVEN-MBE/ Sir Philip CRAVEN, MBE], official website of the Olympic Movement
- [http://www.paralympic.org International Paralympic Committee official website]
- [http://www.iwbf.org/ IWBF official website]
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