Raymond Gafner (17 February 1915 – 26 November 2002) was an ice hockey player, referee, and a member of the

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between 1969 and 1990.

Biography

Raymond Gafner was born in

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in 1915. From 1931 on, he studied Law, after which he was director of the local hospital from 1954 until 1974 and of the university hospital until 1980. From 1942 until 1950, he was the chief scout of Lausanne and Switzerland's biggest scout group "La Brigade de Sauvabelin". He was a hockey and ice hockey goaltender in the premier Swiss league and later an international ice hockey referee, and was the president of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation from 1945 until 1951, celebrating the bronze medal at the World Championships in 1950. He became a member of the Swiss

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in 1947 and was the president of the Committee from 1965 until 1985. He was a member of the

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from 1969 until 1990, when he became an honorary member, and is one of the founders of the

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in Lausanne in 1993. He died in 2002 after a prolonged disease. Gafner was also known as a writer, publishing 6 sport related books between 1983 and 1993.

Awards

* 1983: Credit Suisse Sports Award (main Swiss sports Award, six categories each year) * 1983: Prix du Mérite sportif lausannois (biannual sports award of the city of Lausanne) * 1992: Flambeau d'Or des PCI (Four-yearly award of the International Panathlon organisation) * 1999: The

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(highest award of the IOC) "pays tribute to those who, through their teaching, research and writing of Intellectual works, have contributed to the promotion of Olympism in the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin"

References

External links

Report of the 114th IOC session, with in memoriam for Gafner
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