Report on the ITTF coordination visit for the 2010 WTTC in Moscow

Date:
09-10 April 2009

Parties involved:
Representing the ITTF:
Judit Farago (Competition Department), Anders Thunström (TMS)
Representing the Russian TTF:
Konstantin Pashkov (Deputy President), Yuri Posevin (Vice President), Roman
Markov (Executive Director), Tatiana Lunina (Chief of International Department), Alexander Dementyev (Press Director)

Beside the Russian TTF, city of Moscow is deeply involved in the organization.

Moscow Sports Event Committee which is a governmental organization will be responsible for several technical and logistic areas, and significant part of the budget of the championships will be secured by Moscow city. MSEC hires 80 people and was entrusted to run 17 different world title events in the last years.

Russian TTF requires extremely detailed directives and Event Organizational
Manual and all communication by fax with official letter-head and signature.

Judit asked first to agree on and sign the contractual agreements, details will follow after that.

Co-leaders of the Organizing Committee will be Mr. Levitin, Mr. Luzhkov (Mayor of Moscow) and Mr. Mutko (Sports and Tourism Minister).

Mr. Pashkov will make a power-point presentation about WTTC in Yokohama