Lluis Rabaneda

Lluis Rabaneda has held the role of Vice President of the International Canoe Federation since his election at the 2021 ICF Congress in Rome, Italy.

He was elected as a Board member of the Spanish Olympic Committee that same year. In November 2024, he was re-elected as Vice President of the ICF at the Congress in Antalya. 

In 2005, Mr Rabaneda introduced Canoe Freestyle into the ICF where he was an advisor to the Board until 2006.

A year later, Mr Rabaneda was elected as Chair of the Canoe Freestyle Committee at the 2007 ICF Congress in Hong Kong.

Mr Rabaneda has a wealth of experience as an event organizer in Spain having been the head of the organization of many local, regional, national and international competitions in Canoe Sprint, Canoe Slalom, Canoe Freestyle and Wildwater Canoeing.

Among those events include the ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships in 2001 and 2019, the ECA Canoe Freestyle European Championships in 2004 and 2008 and the ICF Canoe Freestyle World Cups in 2014 and 2018.

He was also the head organizer of the world qualification event in Barcelona for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games and the Canoe Sprint competition during the Tarragona 2018 Mediterranean Games.

2001-present – Board member of the Spanish Canoe Federation

2004-2007 – Technical Delegate for Canoe Freestyle at the European Canoe Association

2007-2021 – Chair of the ICF Canoe Freestyle Committee 

2018 – Technical Delegate for Canoe Sprint at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain

2018 - Head Organizer of the world qualification event for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain

2001 and 2019 - Head Organizer of the ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships Sort, Spain

2021-present – Board member at the Spanish Olympic Committee

2021-present –Vice President of the International Canoe Federation 

2023-Present - member of the High Performance Commission at the Spanish Olympic Committee

Mr Rabaneda, who grew up in a valley in the Spanish Pyrenees surrounded by the Noguera Pallaresa River, started paddling in 1982. He competed in Canoe Slalom, Downriver and Canoe Freestyle events until 1994.

Mr Rabaneda was recognized in 2019 with the Olympic insignia from the Spanish Olympic Committee for outstanding contribution and dedication to the development of canoeing in Spain.

Lluis Rabaneda - ICF Vice President
lluis.rabaneda@canoeicf.sport

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