The Luxembourg Athletics Federation (french: Fédération Luxembourgeoise d’Athlétisme), abbreviated to FLA, is the

governing body A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken ge ...

for the sport of

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

. It was founded on 11 November 1928, replacing the Federation of Luxembourgian Athletic Sports Societies (french: Fédération des Sociétés Luxembourgeoises des Sports Athlétiques).

List of presidents

* Edmond Marx (1928–1940) * Alex Servais (1945–1947) * Jos Lucius (1947–1958) * Pierre Wies (1958) * Jos Lucius (1959) * Emile Goebel (1960–1961) * François Mersch (1961–1962) *

Josy Barthel Joseph ("Josy") Barthel (24 April 1927 – 7 July 1992) was a Luxembourgish athlete. He was the surprise winner of the Men's 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the only athlete representing Luxembourg to have won a gold medal at t ...

(1962–1972) *

Norbert Haupert Norbert Haupert (born 2 April 1940, in Schifflange) is a retired Luxembourgish athlete and currently a politician, sitting in the Chamber of Deputies for the Christian Social People's Party. Like Josy Barthel before him, Haupert spanned the divid ...

(1973–1979) * Mil Jung (1980–1989) * Jean-Marie Janssen (1991–2000) *

Alex Bodry Alex Bodry (born 3 October 1958) is a politician from Luxembourg. Life and career Born 3 October 1958 in Dudelange, Bodry lived there since childhood. Coming from a family of socialist tradition (his grandfather Jean Fohrmann, was Member of Parlia ...

(2001 – 2010) *

Claude Haagen Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...

(2010–2018) * Stéphanie Empain (2018–present)

Footnotes

External links

Luxembourg Athletics Federation official website

Athletics in Luxembourg Athletics Federation 1928 establishments in Luxembourg Strassen, Luxembourg Sports organizations established in 1928 National governing bodies for athletics {{Athletics-stub

List of presidents

See also

Footnotes

External links