{"id":993,"date":"2022-02-04T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/?p=993"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:30:03","slug":"dr-kari-fasting-being-awarded-for-ioc-women-and-sport-award-winner-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/dr-kari-fasting-being-awarded-for-ioc-women-and-sport-award-winner-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"DR. KARI FASTING BEING AWARDED FOR IOC WOMEN AND SPORT AWARD WINNER  FOR EUROPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kari Fasting has been a leading voice in the gender equality in sport movement for over 40 years, jointly founding Women Sport International and Safe Sport International. An esteemed and highly sought-after professor in sports science, her findings have been shared globally, helping to change and challenge the sporting landscape around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wsi-logo-300x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wsi-logo-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wsi-logo.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Dr. Kari Fasting being awarded for the IOC Women and Sport Award Winner for Europe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>February 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182\" src=\"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Fasting-Kari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The World Award was presented to Tokyo 2020 President Hashimoto Seiko\u00a0during the 139<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0IOC Session in Beijing. An experienced and prominent sports leader, politician, and seven-time Olympian, Hashimoto has disrupted and challenged many well-established gender norms in Japan to advance gender equality and inclusion in sport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p>IOC President Thomas Bach and Chair of the IOC Women in Sport Commission Lydia Nsekera presented Hashimoto, who was present to deliver the final report on the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, with her award. They also announced the continental winners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Winner for Africa: Natsiraishe Maritsa\u00a0<\/strong>(Zimbabwe)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner for the Americas: Figure Skating in Harlem\u00a0<\/strong>(USA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner for Asia: Zhang Xia\u00a0<\/strong>(China)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner for Europe: Kari Fasting\u00a0<\/strong>(Norway)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner for Oceania: Tracey Holmes\u00a0<\/strong>(Australia)&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;Winner for Europe: Kari Fasting\u00a0<\/strong>(Norway)<\/p>\n<p>Kari Fasting has been a leading voice in the gender equality in sport movement for over 40 years, jointly founding Women Sport International and Safe Sport International. An esteemed and highly sought-after professor in sports science, her findings have been shared globally, helping to change and challenge the sporting landscape around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Fasting continues to share her research, conduct presentations and provide expert advice to sports organisations around the world, to help them establish policies and procedures for safeguarding and develop gender equality action plans that go beyond one-off projects and have a long-lasting impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/news\/ioc-honours-six-gender-equality-advocates-with-2021-women-and-sport-awards-hashimoto-seiko-awarded-world-trophy\">Link<\/a> to the full article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kari Fasting has been a leading voice in the gender equality in sport movement for over 40 years, jointly founding Women Sport International and Safe Sport International. An esteemed and highly sought-after professor in sports science, her findings have been shared globally, helping to change and challenge the sporting landscape around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}