The International Fair Play Committee (French: Comité international pour le Fair-Play), abbreviated as the CIFP or the IFPC, is a not for profitinternational non-governmental organisation which serves to foster sportsmanship in international competition. It presents awards annually at the World Fair Play Awards to recognise acts of fair play carried out by sportspeople or teams. The awards ceremony is held in various locations and has been broadcast on television in Europe.[1]
Awards are presented at the annual World Fair Play Awards Ceremony in three categories:[5]
For an act of fair play by complying with both the written and unwritten rules of sport.
For a general attitude of sportsmanship throughout a sports career by demonstrating an outstanding and constant spirit of fair play.
For an activity aiming to promote fair play such as the organisation of national or local campaigns, lectures, books, articles or reports in the media.
The trophies given in recognition of the different achievements in each category are:[6][4]
Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy[a] – the "trophy for action", awarded since 1965 for gestures of fair play in which an athlete impedes their performance to aid a fellow competitor.[20]
Jean Borotra World Fair Play Trophy[b] – the "trophy for the career", awarded since 1973 to recognise athletes who have displayed fair play throughout their careers.[22]
Willi Daume [de; fi; it; mg; pl; sv] World Fair Play Trophy[c] – the "trophy for promotion", awarded since 1995 to a person or organisation that has promoted the spirit of fair play.
Since 2013, the CIFP has, under the auspices of the IOC President, also given out the
Jacques Rogge World Fair Play Trophy for The Youth[d] – the "trophy for the youth", in recognition of junior athletes committed to the ideal of fair play.
Further to these annual trophies, the CIFP gives out diplomas and, since 1977,[27] letters of congratulations to other sportspeople and organisations who have shown exceptional good sportsmanship.[28]
Since 2014, the CIFP has awarded a Special World Fair Play Trophy "to such public figures that have significantly supported the development of sport – with no personal interest attached."[29] The first recipients of the Special World Fair Play Trophy were Mintimer Shaimiev and Alisher Usmanov.
Occasional awards
The CIFP will on occasion give out Fair Play Awards. These were first presented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[30] Among the recipients are:
^Formerly the Jacques Rogge Fair Play Trophy for The Youth.[23] Also referred to as the Jacques Rogge World Fair Play Award for the Youth.[24] Before 2017 variously referred to as the
^Some news media reported on 22 August 2016 that Nikki Hamblin and Abbey D'Agostino had received the Pierre de Coubertin Medal.[33] The New Zealand Olympic Committee said that no such award had yet been made,[34] and The Guardian later corrected their report confirming "the award was the International Fair Play Committee Award rather than the Pierre de Coubertin award".[33]
^ abInternational Olympic Committee (1982). Olympic Review. International Olympic Committee. p. 116. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Fair-Play by Sir Stanley Rous past president of the FIFA. The following excerpts have been taken from an address given by Sir Stanley Rous at the occasion of the Award Ceremony of the International Fair Play Trophy Pierre de Coubertin ...
^Unesco (1975). Unesco Chronicle. Vol. 21. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. p. 212. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... The International Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophy awards for 1974 were presented to the winners by the Director-General at headquarters on 6 June. Taking part in the ceremony were Mr. Jean ...
^ abUnesco (1971). Unesco Features: A Fortnightly Press Service. Unesco. p. 4. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophy on 4 May to Polish cyclist Ryszard Szurkowski. Mr. Szurkowski gave his reserve bicycle twice to his rival in the Polish national cycling championships when his competitor was about to quit the race ...
^"World Fair Play Award Winners". International Fair Play Committee. n.d. Retrieved 31 August 2024. The inaugural World Fair Play Awards Ceremony was held on 29 January 1965 and the first Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophy was awarded to an Italian bobsleigh competitor, Eugenio Monti, for his remarkable act at the Innsbruck Olympic Winter Games in 1964.
^ abUnesco (1992). The Unesco Courier. Unesco. p. 46. Retrieved 31 August 2024. PIERRE DE COUBERTIN INTERNATIONAL FAIR PLAY ... Racing Club de France , rugby In the semi – final of the French championship ...
^ abUnesco (1970). Unesco Chronicle. UNESCO Chronicle. Vol. 16. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. p. 271. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Two Spanish sportsmen, footballer Pedro Zaballa and basketball captain Francisco Buscato, were awarded the Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play Trophy for 1969 by the ...
^ abGymnasion (in Swedish). Verlag K. Hofman. 1984. p. 43. ISSN0341-8685. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Fair Play Trophies The 1983 Pierre de Coubertin International Trophies for Fair Play were presented by the ... Karababa, who recognized that a disputed match winning goal had been scored against him, and to the multiple Soviet ...
^ ab"Umaga out to tame Lions". British & Irish Lions. 26 April 2005. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Umaga was the first Kiwi to win the Pierre de Coubertin Trophy for Fair Play, with previous winners including Arthur Ashe, Sir Bobby Charlton and Martina Navratilova.
^"Jacques Rogge Receives Fair Play Trophy". IFPC. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2024. The CIFP Council also decided to rename its Youth Fair Play award that it had been awarding since 2012 to the "Jacques Rogge Fair Play Trophy for The Youth" award.
^"Award Ceremonies". IFPC. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2024. In June 1977 it was decided by the CIFP to award "Letters of Congratulations" to individuals who have distinguished themselves by certain humanitarian acts even though such actions did not fully meet the criteria for those gestures of fair play that the CIFP intended to commend.
^Amateur Athlete. Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. 1966. p. 29. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Willye White – Sportsman Miss Willye White, a U.S. Olympian from Chicago, has been cited by the Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play Trophy Organization of Paris for an outstanding ...
^ abcdUnesco (1969). Unesco Features: A Fortnightly Press Service. Unesco. p. 18. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Japan's national football team has been awarded the Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play Trophy for ... Willye White, American track star, and the West Ham United (England) and "Munich 1860" (Federal Republic ... Stevan Horvat, Yugoslav wrestler, for 1966, and Hungarian tennis player Istvan Gulyas for 1967 ...
^Educational India. 1969. pp. 69–70. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play Trophy for 1968 was recently awarded to the Japanese National football team ...
^Hooper, F.H.; Yust, W. (1971). Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated. p. 128. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Fair Play Trophy Pierre de Coubertin for 1969 to Francisco Buscato, a player of Badalona, Spain, because of his actions on Dec. 25, 1969, when he refused to take advantage of an opponent's injury in a game against Real Madrid ...
^Unesco (1972). The Unesco Courier. UNESCO. p. 33. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Swiss long–jump champion Meta Antenen was recently awarded the international Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophy, at Unesco's Paris headquarters, for an act of sportsmanship during the 1971 European championships ...
^Unesco (1973). The Unesco Courier. UNESCO. p. 34. Retrieved 31 August 2024. American tennis player Stan Smith and Spanish basketball star Emiliano Rodriguez were recently presented with the 1972 Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies at Unesco's Paris headquarters.
^"Sportsmanship recognized". Black Belt. Active Interest Media, Inc. p. 14. ISSN0277-3066. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... award given annually to the sportsman who displays the best spirit of fair play. Ravonel shares the 1975 Fair-Play Pierre De Coubertin Award with Rumanian discus thrower Lia Manoliu. This is the first time a karateman has been honored ...
^Unesco (1976). Unesco Features: A Fortnightly Press Service. Unesco. p. 23. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Emil Zapotek, the famed Czechoslovak long-distance runner, Bob Mathias, American decathlon specialist, and Victor Niederhoffer, American amateur squash champion, were the recipients of this year's Pierre de ...
^Unesco (1976). Unesco Chronicle. UNESCO Chronicle. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. p. 161. Retrieved 31 August 2024. The 1975 International Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies were won by ... Jean Borotra, which selected the winners, chose Niederhoffer for an act of exemplary generosity when playing ...
^Unesco (1976). The Unesco Courier. UNESCO. p. 33. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Fair Play Awards The International Fair Play Committee has made its annual Pierre de Coubertin awards to the Hungarian fencer Jeno Kamuti. Presenting the awards at a ceremony at Unesco HQ in Paris on 26 September 1977, the Director ...
^Aspects of Education: Journal of the Institute of Education, the University of Hull. Aspects of Education: Journal of the Institute of Education, the University of Hull. The Institute. 1982. p. 13. ISBN978-0-85958-213-1. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Pierre de Coubertin often asserted that Olympism embraced the ideal of ... Gareth Edwards, the distinguished Welsh rugby player, received a Fair Play ... Gareth Edwards had, in jest, disqualified himself from his trophy.
^International Olympic Committee (1982). Message olympique (in French). International Olympic Committee. p. 44. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Mohamed Gammoudi, who has in fact just been awarded the Pierre de Coubertin International Trophy for Fair Play, one has to admit that he converses easily in French. Running barefoot during the last few years, the predominantly ...
^Unesco (1984). The Unesco Courier. Unesco. p. 34. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophy for an act of sportsmanship at the 1982 French International Championships, when he persuaded the umpire to order a replay of the match point he had just been awarded in the semifinal.
^Jeune Afrique (in French). Groupe Jeune Afrique. 1985. p. 67. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Fair play égyptien Mohamed Ali Rashwan, judoka égyptien, a reçu à Paris l'un des deux "Trophées internationaux du fair – play Pierre de Coubertin". Rashwan a été récompensé pour avoir volontairement diminué ses chances d'enlever ...
^Newsletter. Americans for the Universality of UNESCO. 1986. p. 16. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Pierre de Coubertin Trophies for Fair Play were awarded to five sports stars from the USA, France, Finland, Egypt ...
^India. Ministry of Defence (1987). Sainik Samachar. Director of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence. p. 30. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
^Unesco (1987). Les Nouvelles de L'Unesco (in French). Unesco. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Fair-Play Trophies Three sportsmen from the United Kingdom and Hungary were awarded the 1986 International Pierre de Coubertin Fair-Play ... Istvan Vaskuti and Janos Sarusi Kiss for their remarkable spirit of fair-play during ...
^Unesco (1988). Les Nouvelles de L'Unesco. Unesco. p. 12. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Pierre de Coubertin Fair-Play Trophies to the Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj and the American basketball coach Cleveland Stroud ...
^Unesco (1989). Unesco Sources. Unesco. p. 20. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Pierre de Coubertin Fair-Play Trophy. Fair-Play winners (1. to r.) Teofilio Stevenson and two members of the Canadian-Soviet ski team, Dimitri Schparo and Richard Weber
^Unesco (1990). Unesco Sources. Unesco. p. 4. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... FAIR PLAY CHAMPIONS The gymnast Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia), the tennis players Chris Evert (U.S.A.) and Ken Rosewall (Australia), and the skier Pirmin Zurbriggen (Switzerland) were awarded the Pierre de Coubertin ...
^Unesco (1991). Unesco Sources. Unesco. p. 9. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... FAIR PLAY CHAMPIONS are footballer Dino Zoff (Italy) and canoeists Ian Lawler and Graham Burns (United Kingdom). They were awarded the International Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play Trophies at UNESCO Headquarters on October 7. Dino ...
^Unesco (1993). Unesco Sources. Unesco. p. 21. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Eddie Van Hoof, Stuttgart's Mayor Manfred Rommer, French cyclist Raymond Poulidor and Russian skier Raïssa Smetanina are the winners of the 29th Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play ...
^Unesco (1995). Unesco Sources. Unesco. p. 22. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ...were awarded to the people of Norway for their solidarity in raising funds at the ... trophy also went to Justin Harley McDonald, captain of the Australian ...
^"Kip Keino receives Fair Play Award in Paris". worldathletics.org. 10 January 2003. Retrieved 14 August 2024. 62-year-old Kipchoge Keino, the 1968 Olympic 1500 m and 1972 Olympic Steeplechase champion was presented with the Willi Daume Trophy by IOC President Jacques Rogge and CIFP President Dr. Jeno Kamuti.
^Unesco (1988). Unesco List of Documents and Publications. Computerized Documentation System. p. 49. Retrieved 31 August 2024. ... Speech paying tribute to Jean Borotra, outgoing President and founder of the International Fair Play Committee, associated with ...
^South African Communication Service (1998). South Africa Yearbook. South African Communication Service. p. 506. ISSN1022-9515. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
^"Structure". International Fair Play Committee. n.d. Archived from the original on 3 April 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.