{"id":2453,"date":"2018-05-22T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.grindeks.eu\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:39:05","slug":"chairman-of-the-grindekss-council-kirovs-lipmans-named-the-winner-of-the-iihf-paul-loicq-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/chairman-of-the-grindekss-council-kirovs-lipmans-named-the-winner-of-the-iihf-paul-loicq-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman of the Grindeks\u2019s Council Kirovs Lipmans named the winner of the IIHF Paul Loicq Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 20 May in Copenhagen, Denmark where the 2018 IIHF World Championship took place during the 2018 IIHF Hall of Fame Induction ceremony as the new inductees were honoured the IIHF presented the prestigious Paul Loicq Award for outstanding service to international ice hockey to Kirovs Lipmans \u2013 Chairman of the Council of JSC Grindeks and the former president of the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – MAY 20: IIHF President Rene Fasel presents 2018 IIHF Hall of Fame Paul Loicq Award to Kirovs Lipmans during the 2018 IIHF Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. (Photo by Andre Ringuette\/HHOF-IIHF Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The IIHF President Ren\u00e9 Fasel presents the Paul Loicq Award to Kirovs Lipmans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirovs Lipmans was the preseident of Latvian Ice Hockey Federation from 1994 to 1995 and from 1998 to 2016. Under his direction the ice hockey in Latvia went through the phase of stable development \u2013 our national team continuously competed in the Elite Division and participated in all four Olympic Winter Games from 2002 to 2014, while the teams of U18 and U20 went also to the higher division. The major event under K. Lipmans\u2019 leadership was held in 2006 when Riga hosted the IIHF World Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As K. Lipmans received the award he noted: \u201cThis is truly one of the most outstanding moments of my life but this, however, is also a great day for the whole Latvian hockey family! The Paul Loicq Award is a remarkable achievement not only to me as former president of the Latvian Ice-Hockey Federation, but this honor has to be shared with each and every individual who made their effort to develop the ice-hockey into a national passion soon after the first years of Latvia\u2019s independence restoration!\u201d Also K. Lipmans thanked personally to the president of IIHF Ren\u00e9 Fasel and the president of Russian Hockey federation Vladislav Tretiak for the professional support and advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award named after the Belgian ice-hockey player and former IIHF president Paul Loicq is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the IIHF and international ice hockey since 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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