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Joël Bouzou

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In December 2011, Bouzou was elected president of the World Olympians Association on a four-year term. He was re-elected in 2015 for another four-year term unopposed. In 2020, was again re-elected as President of World Olympians Association after standing unopposed at the 2020 WOA General Assembly.
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A member of the Executive Committee for the World Olympians Association (WOA) from 2003 to 2008, Bouzou also founded a French association Rassemblement par le Sport (Together through Sport) with the aim of helping to socially integrate young people living in volatile suburbs in France through sport.
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He participated in four Olympic Games (Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992) and won the team bronze medal in 1984. He won the Modern Pentathlon World Championships in 1987, beating
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in recognition of "his unique worldwide leadership role in promoting peace and mutual understanding among different cultures, and his leadership of organizations devoted to these objectives".
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L'Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport founded in 2007 to promote the use of sport to foster dialogue and reconciliation everywhere where it's needed.
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Peace and Sport, is a neutral international organization based in the Principality of
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In March 2010 he was awarded a Honoris Causa Doctorate in Humane Letters from the
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Bouzou is President and Founder of a global initiative called
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He is also an advisor to H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
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Figeac
France
Modern pentathlon
France
Olympic Games
1984 Los Angeles
Team
OLY
World Olympians Association
Auch
Modern Pentathlon
Milan Kadlec
Peace and Sport
Monaco
Prince Albert II of Monaco
National Order of Merit
Legion of Honour
University for Peace
1992
Barcelona
1988
Seoul
1984
Los Angeles
1980
Moscow
1987
1982

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