The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations ASOIF is a non profit association of international sports fe

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) is a non-profit association of international sports federations that compete in the Summer Olympic Games. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, the same city where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also headquartered.

Association of Summer Olympic International Federations *Association des fédérations internationales olympiques des sports d'été*

Abbreviation	ASOIF
Formation	30 May 1983; 41 years ago (1983-05-30)
Type	Nonprofit
Purpose	Inter-sport federation organisation
Headquarters	Lausanne, Switzerland
Official language	English, French
President	Ingmar De Vos
Vice President	Uğur Erdener
Executive Director	James Carr
Website	asoif.com

ASOIF Council

The council is composed of a president and six members, all from different federations. One of the six members is elected as vice-president. The president and all the members are elected for 4-year mandates. The executive director is nominated by the council on the proposal of the president as an executive position. The executive director is also on the council, but without voting rights.

Members of the ASOIF Council as of March 2025 are:

Designation	Name	Country	Sport Federation
President	Ingmar De Vos	Belgium	International Equestrian Federation
Vice President	Uğur Erdener	Turkey	World Archery
Council Members	Sebastian Coe	United Kingdom	World Athletics
	Nenad Lalović	Serbia	United World Wrestling
		Sweden	International Table Tennis Federation
	Morinari Watanabe	Japan	International Gymnastics Federation
Executive Director	James Carr	United Kingdom

Members

International federations may apply to become a full member if they govern a core Summer Olympic sport or govern a sport which featured in the three most recent Summer Olympics. They may apply to become an associate member if they govern a sport included on the programme for future editions of the Summer Olympic Games or govern a sport which has featured in any five editions of the Summer Olympic Games since 1988.

As of March 2025, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) has 30 full member and five associate member international federations.

Full members

Sport	International federation (IF)	Acronym	National associations	Year IF founded	President	Official website
Aquatics	World Aquatics	WAQU	209	1908	Husain Al Musallam	worldaquatics.com
Archery	World Archery	WA	163	1931	Uğur Erdener	worldarchery.org
Athletics	World Athletics	WATH	214	1912	Sebastian Coe	worldathletics.org
Badminton	Badminton World Federation	BWF	188	1934	Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen	bwfbadminton.org
Basketball	International Basketball Federation	FIBA	212	1932	Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani	fiba.basketball
Canoeing	International Canoe Federation	ICF	181	1924	Thomas Konietzko	canoeicf.com
Cycling	Union Cycliste Internationale	UCI	205	1900	David Lappartient	uci.ch
Equestrian	International Federation for Equestrian Sports	FEI	134	1921	Ingmar De Vos	fei.org
Fencing	Fédération Internationale d'Escrime	FIE	152	1913	Emmanuel Katsiadakis (interim)	fie.org
Field hockey	International Hockey Federation	FIH	128	1924	Tayyab Ikram	fih.ch
Football	Fédération Internationale de Football Association	FIFA	211	1904	Gianni Infantino	fifa.com
Golf	International Golf Federation	IGF	147	1958	Annika Sörenstam	igfgolf.org
Gymnastics	International Gymnastics Federation	FIG	148	1881	Morinari Watanabe	gymnastics.sport
Handball	International Handball Federation	IHF	209	1946	Hassan Moustafa	ihf.info
Judo	International Judo Federation	IJF	207	1951	Marius Vizer	ijf.org
Modern pentathlon	Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne	UIPM	110	1948	Robert Stull	pentathlon.org
Roller sports	World Skate	WSK	141	1924	Sabatino Aracu	worldskate.org
Rowing	World Rowing	FISA	159	1892	Jean-Christophe Rolland	worldrowing.com
Rugby union	World Rugby	WR	117	1886	Brett Robinson	worldrugby.org
Sailing	World Sailing	WS	140	1907	Quanhai Li	sailing.org
Shooting	International Shooting Sport Federation	ISSF	161	1907	Luciano Rossi	issf-sports.org
Sport climbing	International Federation of Sport Climbing	IFSC	95	2007	Marco Maria Scolaris	ifsc-climbing.org
Surfing	International Surfing Association	ISA	113	1964	Fernando Aguerre	isasurf.org
Table tennis	International Table Tennis Federation	ITTF	226	1926	Petra Sörling	ittf.com
Taekwondo	World Taekwondo	WT	212	1973	Choue Chung-won	worldtaekwondo.org
Tennis	International Tennis Federation	ITF	207	1913	David Haggerty	itftennis.com
Triathlon	World Triathlon	TRI	172	1989	Antonio Fernández Arimany	triathlon.org
Volleyball	Fédération Internationale de Volleyball	FIVB	222	1947	Fabio Azevedo	fivb.com
Weightlifting	International Weightlifting Federation	IWF	192	1905	Mohamed Jalood	iwf.net
Wrestling	United World Wrestling	UWW	180	1912	Nenad Lalović	unitedworldwrestling.org

Associate members

Sport	International federation (IF)	Acronym	National associations	Year IF founded	President	Official website
American football	International Federation of American Football	IFAF	75	1998		americanfootball.sport
Baseball and softball	World Baseball Softball Confederation	WBSC	143	2013	Riccardo Fraccari	wbsc.org
Cricket	International Cricket Council	ICC	105	1909	Jay Shah	icc-cricket.com
Lacrosse	World Lacrosse	WL	92	2008	Bob DeMarco	worldlacrosse.sport
Squash	World Squash	WSF	115	1967		worldsquash.org

History

On 30 May 1983, the 21 International Federations governing the sports included at the time on the programme of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games decided to form the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).

ASOIF was formed, as stated in the first article of its constitution 'to co-ordinate and to defend the common interests of its members' and to 'ensure close co-operation between its members, and members of the Olympic Movement and other organisations'. These needs were identified in order to preserve the unity of the Olympic movement while maintaining 'the authority, independence and autonomy of the member International Federations.'

The members of ASOIF meet once a year in a General Assembly. The General Assembly usually precedes the joint meeting between the executive board of the International Olympic Committee and the International Federations where a multitude of topics are discussed in the common interests of the Olympic Movement. ASOIF is administered by an executive body, the council, which consists of seven individual members, most of whom are presidents of Summer Olympic International Federations. The ASOIF General Secretariat is located in Lausanne and is administered by the ASOIF Executive Director.

In 2015, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 had proposed five new sports in response to the new flexibility provided by Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC's strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. Olympic Agenda 2020 gives host cities the option of suggesting new sports and events for inclusion in their edition of the Games. Karate, skateboarding, sports climbing, surfing and baseball/softball were added to the Olympic Programme in Tokyo 2020. ASOIF has amended its statutes to enable IFs "governing sports included within the events programme for a specific edition of the Summer Olympic Games" to become "Associate Members".

On 22 June 2023, the IOC decided to withdraw recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA), in accordance with Rule 3.7 of the Olympic Charter (OC), although boxing will continue to be an Olympic sport for the 2028 Summer Olympics. This was the first-ever international federation to be removed from the Olympic Movement by the IOC. According to the Statutes of ASOIF, as updated in June 2023, the ASOIF Council may provisionally suspend any Full Member's rights (set forth in Article 3.4) if its IOC recognition is suspended, but allow it to retain its Member's rights set forth in Article 3.5. The Council may lift the suspension when such full member's IOC recognition is reinstated (Article 3.13). In April 2024 the ASOIF General Assembly excluded the International Boxing Association (IBA) as ASOIF Member, in line with the ASOIF Statutes. This move follows the CAS decision of 2 April 2024, dismissing IBA's appeal against the IOC decision to withdraw IBA's recognition as the international federation (IF) for Olympic boxing. Previously, ASOIF had already suspended IBA's Full Member's rights.

Notes

Also a member of International World Games Association (IWGA).
Also a member of (TAFISA).
Also a member of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF).

References

"Council". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
ASOIF Statutes, 10 April 2024
"Members". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
"Organisational Structure". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
"IOC - ODF Common Codes".
"IOC Session withdraws recognition of International Boxing Association". olympics.com. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
"IOC "guarantees" boxing's place at Los Angeles 2028 following IBA expulsion". www.insidethegames.biz. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
"Ricci Bitti says IBA expulsion "sad" but must be used "to rebuild" boxing". www.insidethegames.biz. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
ASOIF Statutes, 1 June 2023
"ASOIF General Assembly elects Ingmar De Vos as its future President". ASOIF. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.

External links

Official website
ASOIF at IOC website

[iwga-6] Also a member of International World Games Association (IWGA).

[tafisa-7] Also a member of (TAFISA).

[arisf-8] Also a member of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF).

[1] "Council". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.

[2] ASOIF Statutes, 10 April 2024

[member-3] "Members". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.

[4] "Organisational Structure". ASOIF. Retrieved 1 March 2025.

[acronyms-5] "IOC - ODF Common Codes".

[9] "IOC Session withdraws recognition of International Boxing Association". olympics.com. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

[10] "IOC "guarantees" boxing's place at Los Angeles 2028 following IBA expulsion". www.insidethegames.biz. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

[11] "Ricci Bitti says IBA expulsion "sad" but must be used "to rebuild" boxing". www.insidethegames.biz. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

[:0-12] ASOIF Statutes, 1 June 2023

[13] "ASOIF General Assembly elects Ingmar De Vos as its future President". ASOIF. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.