Lausanne, December 17, 2005 – ICARE, the International Center for Apnea Recognition and Education, has announced the results of the organization’s Trophy poll for the year 2005:
BEST FEMALE ROOKIE 2005 / MEILLEURE REVELATION FEMININE 2005
1. Veronika DITTES, Austria
2. Mouna GHOSSOUB, Lebanon
3. Sandra PIOVANICCI, France
4. Malgorzata MATKOWSKA, Poland
BEST MALE ROOKIE 2005 / MEILLEURE REVELATION MASCULINE 2005
1. Alexey MOLCHANOV, Russia
2. William WINRAM, Canada
3. Ant WILLIAMS, New Zealand
4. Tomasz NITKA, Poland
BEST NATIONAL INSTITUTION 2005 / MEILLEURE INSTITUTION NATIONALE 2005
1. Fédération Suisse d’Apnée Sportive (FSAS), Switzerland
2. AIDA México, Mexico
3. AIDA Russia, Russia
4. AIDA New Zealand, New Zealand
BEST CAPTAIN/COACH 2005 / MEILLEUR CAPITAINE/COACH 2005
1. Gabriela CONTRERAS, Venezuela
2. Michèle MONICO, Independant (Canada, Lebanon, USA)
3. = Dave STEWART, New Zealand
= Sarah REBMANN, Germany
BEST INTERNATIONAL JUDGE 2005 / MEILLEUR JUGE INTERNATIONAL 2005
1. Marcello DE MATTEIS, Italy
2. Dimitris VASSILAKIS, Greece
3. Torsten WERNER, Germany
4. Kimmo LAHTINEN, Finland
SPECIAL ICARE TROPHIES 2005 / TROPHEES SPECIAUX ICARE 2005
Claude CHAPUIS, France (Organizer of Nice 2005, Ex AIDA Technical Officer)
& Sébastien NAGEL, Switzerland (Organizer of Renens 2005, Ex AIDA President)
Additional details on the ICARE 2005 Trophy poll can be viewed at the organization’s website: www.immersion.profonde.ch/ICARE.htm