IRF Judge certifications
IRF certified judges are awarded their qualifications in accordance with IRF Raft Race Rules. The IRF Judge Certification is the only internationally recognised raft race judge qualification. As such, only people listed below are authorised to judge at IRF raft race events.
There are four types of IRF Judge certifications:
- Assistant Judge
- General Judge
- Chief Judge
- Judge Assessor
Judge qualifications and experience requirements are published annually in the IRF Raft Race Rules. A summary of each can be found here.
IRF certified judges
Photos below are of all currently certified IRF Judge Assessors and Chief Judges. Judges are listed alphabetically by first name.
Judge Assessors:
Aleks Pastir
Stan Hajeks
Dirk Ladiges
Yuni Yunita
Emilia Begunova
Eric Boudreau
Goran Lolic
Jozef Kytka
Petra Plecita
Pieter Bekkers
Chief Judges:
Aleksander Cvijic
Aleksander Djeric
Bert Kanora
David Kulhan
Graham Maifredi
Jean-Philippe Turcotte
Joseph Willis Jones
Kianoosh Mehrabi
Steve Nomchong
Sean Clarke
Full list of all currently certified raft race judges:
Amendments to the details listed are only permissable with acceptable evidence. For example, name change or spelling correction is only accepted with passport, deed poll or marriage certificate evidence. Nationality change is permitted with evidence of current and new passports. In all cases, evidence must be submitted to IRF Admin.
Further judging resources:
- Templates, forms and resources for judging at IRF events
- Judges Committee
- IRF Race Rules
- Results from all past IRF raft race events
- Upcoming raft race events
Additional to IRF race rules, at World and Contintental level (Category A & B) events, judges swear to the Olympic Official’s Oath. This is normally done by the Head Judge.
