{"id":1455,"date":"2013-07-13T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T10:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/?page_id=1455"},"modified":"2013-07-24T05:49:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T03:49:42","slug":"world-champions-and-congresses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/photo-gallery\/world-champions-and-congresses\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champions and congresses"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a long tradition that world champions meet at ICCF congresses.<\/p>\n

In according to my statistics the most frequent guests among world champions (including ICCF Congress 2013 in Krak\u00f3w, Poland) are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Times<\/th>\nWorld Champions<\/th>\nRemarks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n11th Fritz Baumbach (GER)<\/td>\nwithout any break\u00a0since gaining world champion title !!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n6th Horst Rittner (GER)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n12th Grigory Sanakoev (RUS)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n16th Tunc Hamarat (AUT)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The\u00a0biggest number of world champions hosted by ICCF Congresses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
ICCF Congress<\/th>\nWC#<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1999\u00a0Thun,\u00a0Switzerland<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006\u00a0Dresden,\u00a0Germany<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013\u00a0Krak\u00f3w,\u00a0Poland<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

At this page below evidences of these very specific meetings have been placed, based on my archive and photos from book „Who is the Champion of the Champions?” by Fritz Baumbach.<\/p>\n

I would be happy to suplement this page with evidences for other congress meetings \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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2013 Krak\u00f3w (POL)<\/h4>\n

World Champions to be present at the ICCF Congress 2013, Krak\u00f3w (POLAND)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nWC #<\/th>\nPeriod<\/th>\nSurname<\/th>\nFirst Name<\/th>\nMF<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n06<\/td>\n1968-1971<\/td>\nRittner<\/td>\nHorst<\/td>\nGER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n1983-1989<\/td>\nBaumbach<\/td>\nFritz<\/td>\nGER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n2004-2011<\/td>\nLehikoinen<\/td>\nPertti<\/td>\nFIN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n2009-2012<\/td>\n\u0160emrl<\/td>\nMarjan<\/td>\nSLO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n2009-2013<\/td>\nFinocchiaro<\/td>\nFabio<\/td>\nITA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n2010-?<\/td>\nLangeveld<\/td>\nRon<\/td>\nNED<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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2011 Helsinki (FIN)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"2011<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From left to right: Marjan \u0160emrl, Pertti Lehikoinen, Tunc Hamarat, Fritz Baumbach and Horst Rittner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Five\u00a0World Champions meeting at the ICCF Congress in\u00a0Helsinki (Finland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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2006 Dresden (GER)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"2007<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From left to right: Gert Jan Timmerman, Ivar Bern, Fritz Baumbach, Tunc Hamarat, Horst Rittner and\u00a0Grigory Sanakoev<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Six World Champions meeting at the ICCF Congress in Dresden (Germany)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1999 Thun (SUI)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"1999<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From left to right: Horst Rittner, T\u00f5nu \u00d5im, Vytas Palciauskas,\u00a0Fritz Baumbach, Mikhail Umansky and\u00a0Grigory Sanakoev together with ICCF Honorary President Alan Borwell from Scotland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Six World Champions before the market fountain during the ICCF Congress in Thun (Switzerland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1998 Riga (LAT)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"1998<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From left to right: Fritz Baumbach and T\u00f5nu \u00d5im<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Double world\u00a0champion T\u00f5nu \u00d5im and Fritz Baumbach in front of the monument of the great Paul Keres who defeated nine world champions. But Estonia had to wait for a world champion title until 1982 (picture taken during the ICCF Congress in Riga in 1998).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1988 Arhus (DEN) (Presidium Meeting)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"1988<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From left to right: Horst Rittner, Vladimir Zagorovsky, Fritz Baumbach and J\u00f8rn Sloth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It is very rare that a new champion is physically present at the ceremony during the ICCF Congress following his victory. Normally he receives his Gold Medal by post. Fritz Baumbach experienced this overwhelming moment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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There is a long tradition that world champions meet at ICCF congresses.<\/p>\n

In according to my statistics the most frequent guests among world champions (including ICCF Congress 2013 in Krak\u00f3w, Poland) are:<\/p>\n

Times World Champions Remarks 24 11th Fritz Baumbach (GER) without any break since gaining world champion title !!! 9 6th Horst Rittner (GER) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455\/revisions\/1678"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccfcongress2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}