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In the fifth episode of European Athletics' mini-documentary series&nbsp;My Story,&nbsp;Croatia's Sandra Perkovic narrates her path from throwing 35 metres to becoming the first athlete in any event to win five European titles in the same event.
Perkovic also remembers some of the key figures who have helped her along the way, including her mother who she described as her biggest supporter. "She taught me that every year I need to work like it's my last year and I need to give more than one hundred percent," said Perkovic who also recalled how she surprised her by coming to watch her win her fifth title at the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships.
Initially a shot putter in her formative years in the sport, Perkovic soon found her niche in the discus. Her long-time coach Ivan Ivancic, who died in 2014 shortly after Perkovic won her third European title in Zurich, predicted that she would one day become an Olympic champion even when she was only throwing the discus 35 metres.
"Ivan is a very important person in my life...he showed me the way, he gave me his best advice, he gave me power, courage and respect for the others. I'm still using those gifts from him," said Perkovic.
The episode can be watched in its entirely in the video below.&nbsp;
The sixth episode featuring reigning world and European long jump champion Malaika Mihambo will be published later this month.
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Perkovic: “I want to be remembered as the best female discus athlete ever”

Long jumper Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk and hammer thrower Myhaylo Kokhan have been voted Ukrainian Athletes of the Year for 2020.
Despite a turbulent year caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Bekh-Romanchuk and Kokhan both amassed notable summer campaigns. Bekh-Romanchuk won two events on the Diamond League circuit in the long jump and Kokhan, the reigning European U18 and U20 champion, improved his lifetime best in the hammer.
There were three stages to the voting. Fans, experts (the Ukrainian Athletic Association council) and media representatives all had their say, each accounting for one-third of the total vote.
"Back in June, we didn't expect anything special,&rdquo; Bekh-Romanchuk told the Ukrainian Athletic Association. &ldquo;It was said that Diamond Leagues were due to be staged but no one gave a one hundred percent guarantee. Therefore, all spring and half of the summer I trained in a light mode: I exercised once a day, purely to keep fit. It was not until late June-early July that the opportunity to compete became more apparent, but until we boarded the plane, there was no certainty.&rdquo;
Bekh-Romanchuk won five of her eight long jump competitions outdoors in 2020 which was highlighted by Diamond League victories in Stockholm (6.85m) and Doha (6.91m). Bekh-Romanchuk also went unbeaten through the indoor season and set an outright lifetime best of 6.96m at the Copernicus Cup in Torun, the host venue of the European Athletics Indoor Championships in March.
On the men&rsquo;s side, 19-year-old Kokhan topped the voting for the second year in succession. Despite being classified as an U20 in 2020, Kokhan still won five of his eight competitions with the senior implement and extended his lifetime best to 77.78m at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar. He also won the Balkan senior title in Cluj-Napoca and crowned his illustrious junior career with gold at the Balkan U20 Championships.
&ldquo;Fortunately, I had the opportunity to compete in August and September: there were competitions in Ukraine and there were invitations to international tournaments. I also performed at the Balkan U20 and senior championships. But despite all the difficulties, I managed to improve my personal record in Sz&eacute;kesfeh&eacute;rv&aacute;r. We survived this year and are full of motivation for 2021,&rdquo; he said.

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Bekh-Romanchuk and Kokhan voted Ukrainian Athletes of the Year

In the fourth episode of European Athletics&rsquo; mini-documentary series My Story, Nafissatou Thiam reflects on her career all the way from winning a pot of jam for winning a cross country race in Belgium to winning the European heptathlon title in Berlin.&nbsp;
That gold medal secured the set of major heptathlon titles at the age of 23. Thiam is also one of only four women to surpass the 7000 points-barrier but the Belgian believes she will be at her peak at the Tokyo Olympics next year.
&ldquo;Tokyo was always the target,&rdquo; said Thiam. &ldquo;I know I can do something big because I&rsquo;m so much stronger now.&rdquo;
The full episode can be watched in full below and all previous episodes can be watched in their entirety on our YouTube channel.
The fifth episode of #MyStory will be published at 6pm on Thursday 7 January.
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Thiam: “I know I can do something big in Tokyo because I’m so much stronger now”

European Athletics Indoor Championships

Media accreditation is now open for the Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships on 5-7 March.&nbsp;
In order to ensure the safe staging of the championships in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of on-site media will be reduced in order to comply with the prevailing health and safety protocols.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Quota system for Media present in Torun&nbsp;
Member Federations have received quotas for on-site media representatives and will be asked to carry out this section of the accreditation process&nbsp;and nominate their national representatives. Once nomination process is done, journalists and photographers will receive registration link to finalise their accreditation process.&nbsp;For any further information, please contact your relevant Member Federation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The deadline to apply for media accreditation is Friday 5 February.&nbsp;
Medical and sanitary protocol&nbsp;
European Athletics continues to proceed with a thorough risk assessment and evaluation of the situation in coordination with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and the national/local authorities to ensure that the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun/POL can take place in a safe environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;
A medical clearance and sanitary protocol&nbsp;has&nbsp;been developed and in the attached Appendix you will find all the relevant information. We urge you to pay the highest attention to all procedures and rules included in this document. The health of all stakeholders is European Athletics&rsquo; utmost priority and every individual must contribute to it.&nbsp;&nbsp;
It is clear that the pandemic is not over and we will keep monitoring the situation with the assistance of the LOC and the national/local authorities, whom we thank for their continued support. Should the evolution of the pandemic require it, we will get back to you with updated information. However, at this stage, we would like to emphasise that&nbsp;being vaccinated will not exempt anyone from following the rules and procedures&nbsp;listed in&nbsp;the Medical and Sanitary Protocol.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Accredited media&nbsp;must&nbsp;perform one test to detect SARS CoV2 genetic material (RT-PCR) in a nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab. The swab shall be collected 3-5 days before arrival to Torun (e.g.&nbsp;if arriving on&nbsp;3&nbsp;March, the RT-PCR test shall be conducted between 26-28&nbsp;February 2021). The result must be negative, and the English analysis report&nbsp;will have to be uploaded into the Registration System before arrival in Torun.&nbsp;The results of serological blood tests or RT-LAMP&nbsp;will not be accepted&nbsp;as part of the Medical Clearance Protocol.&nbsp;
Another coronavirus test will also be performed on arrival at the testing centre at the Arena Torun before media can collect their accreditation.&nbsp;&nbsp;
In-depth information on the medical and sanitary protocol can be found <a href="https://directus.european-athletics.com/public/uploads/european-athletics/originals/f5ca84c2-994a-4334-9ae4-97772bc86f89.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Accommodation&nbsp;
There are two designated media hotels for the championships.&nbsp;All accredited media must stay in one of the two designated media hotels.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.gromada.pl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hotel&nbsp;Gromada**&nbsp;</a>
ul. Żeglarska&nbsp;10/14
87-100 Toruń
Telephone: +48 512 357 626
Single occupancy: 200 PLN&nbsp;
Double occupancy: 250 PLN&nbsp;
Quoted prices are per room, per night and include breakfast.&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.hotel-gotyk.com.pl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hotel&nbsp;Gotyk***</a>&nbsp;
ul. Piekary 20&nbsp;
87-100 Toruń&nbsp;
Telephone: +48 512 357 626&nbsp;&nbsp;
Single occupancy: 230 PLN&nbsp;
Double occupancy: 280 PLN&nbsp;
Quoted prices are per room, per night and include breakfast.&nbsp;
Payment and cancellation policy&nbsp;
After your booking, an email will be sent with your accommodation invoice and details on how to proceed with your payment.&nbsp;
You are kindly requested to proceed with the payment no later than five working days after receipt of this e-mail in order to guarantee your hotel booking.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The confirmation of your accommodation booking will be guaranteed only after receipt of the full payment of your accommodation cost.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Failure to adhere to these payment terms will result in the cancellation of the reservation.&nbsp;&nbsp;
For more information on accommodation, please contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:m.jasinska@torun2021.pl">m.jasinska@torun2021.pl</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Official entry points&nbsp;
Transportation will be provided to the official hotels and media accreditation centre from the following entry points:&nbsp;&nbsp;
Bydgoszcz Airport (50km from Torun)&nbsp;
Warsaw Airport (210km from Torun)&nbsp;
Toruń Train Station&nbsp;&nbsp;
On-site transportation&nbsp;
Transportation will be provided on-site to/from the official venues with regular media shuttles. The timetable will be communicated in due time.&nbsp;
Media Accreditation Centre&nbsp;
The media accreditation centre can be found at the Arena Torun and will be open as below.&nbsp;&nbsp;
28 February 12:00 &ndash; 18:00&nbsp;
1-2 March: 10:00 &ndash; 20:00&nbsp;
3-4 March: 09:00 &ndash; 22:00&nbsp;
5-7 March: 08:00 &ndash; 20:00&nbsp;
Remote media&nbsp;
Media representatives who are unable to travel to Torun are able to apply for remote media access via the links below.&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="https://register.event-works.com/ea/EuropeanAthleticsIndoorChampionships2021/e/lk/g/88380/k/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Press&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://register.event-works.com/ea/EuropeanAthleticsIndoorChampionships2021/e/lk/g/88390/k/&nbsp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Written Press</a>
<a href="https://register.event-works.com/ea/EuropeanAthleticsIndoorChampionships2021/e/lk/g/88400/k/&nbsp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Member Federation Press Liaison</a>
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Media accreditation opens for Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships

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Indoor Permit Meetings

European indoor champions Ewa Swoboda and Piotr Lisek will both compete at the ORLEN Cup in Lodz on 12 February on the road to the Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
The Orlen Cup is a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting and one of the main domestic events on the Polish calendar in the build-up to Torun 2021 where the hosts will be looking to top the medal table for the third successive edition of the championships.
Lisek won the pole vault at the 2017 European Indoor Championships and Swoboda won the 60m at the last staging of the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 2019. Both will be looking to repeat in Torun from 5-7 March.
Swoboda won at the Orlen Cup in 2019 - her third victory at this meeting - as a precursor to winning gold in Glasgow. She sped to a 7.13 clocking in both her heat and in the final.
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&ldquo;Competing at the Orlen Cup has always been successful for me and I hope it will be so now,&rdquo; said Swoboda who is planning to open her indoor season in Karlsruhe on 29 January.
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Lisek is targeting his fifth victory at the Orlen Cup since 2015. His best result came in 2017 when he cleared 5.87m less than a month before winning the European indoor title in Belgrade.
Two-time European 110m hurdles fourth-placer Damian Czykier is also confirmed for the 60m hurdles.&nbsp;
Due to coronavirus restrictions, the event is due to take place behind closed doors although the organisers are hoping the conditions improve in order to admit a limited number of spectators into the Atlas Arena.
&ldquo;We hope we will be able to invite even a small group of fans to the stands, because athletes compete for the fans. I am very happy and would like to emphasise that despite the pandemic, the meeting is still supported by sponsors and the city of Lodz,&rdquo; said Sebastian Chmara, Vice President of the Polish Athletics Association.

Swoboda and Lisek to compete in Lodz on the road to Torun

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MARCH 02: 2019 Ewa Swoboda of Poland competes during the Womens 60m Semi FInals during the European Athletics Indoor Championships - Day Two at the Emirates Arena on March 02, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

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Renaud Lavillenie is planning a full indoor season culminating with the Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships which will take place at the Arena Torun from 5-7 March.
Lavillenie will largely compete domestically in the build-up to Torun. He is due to open his season at the Star Perche Officiel in Bordeaux on 16 January before making his only scheduled international appearance prior to Torun in Karlsruhe on 29 January.
After Karlsruhe, Lavillenie will vault at the Perche En Or in Tourcoing on 31 January before five more scheduled appearances in February, including the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin (9 February), World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meetings in Rouen (6 February) and Clermont-Ferrand (27 February) and in a Bronze meeting in Val-de-Reuil on 14 February.
Lavillenie will also vault at the French Indoor Championships in Miramas on 21 February. At his national indoor championships last year, Lavillenie achieved the notable milestone of clearing 5.80m or higher for the 150th time in his long and venerable career.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Frenchman&rsquo;s international career dates back in earnest to 2009 when he capped off his breakthrough indoor season with his first of four successive gold medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Turin.
After clearing 5.81m in Turin, Lavillenie won his second gold medal on home soil in Paris in 2011 with a championship record of 6.03m before clearing 6.01m in Gothenburg in 2013 (he cleared 6.07m which was famously disallowed for being a foul even though the cross-bar remained intact) and then another championship record of 6.04m in Prague in 2015.
That fourth gold medal at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships remains not only his last medal garnered from the bienniel indoor championships but also his last appearance with injury forcing Lavillenie to miss both the 2017 and 2019 editions in Belgrade and Glasgow respectively.
The men's pole vault is shaping up to be one of the showcase events of the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Lavillenie is likely to face Poles Pawel Wojciechowski and Piotr Lisek, who won in Lavillenie's absence in 2019 and 2017 respectively, and he could also face world record-holder Armand Duplantis who has expressed his interest in returning to the venue in which he broke the world record for the first time in February 2020.&nbsp;
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Lavillenie maps out his plans for the 2021 indoor season

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World high jump silver medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh made a brilliant season&rsquo;s debut at the Christmas Starts in Kyiv on Saturday (9), the traditional curtain raiser to the Ukrainian indoor athletics season.
Competing for the first time since the Rome Diamond League in mid-September, Mahuchikh didn&rsquo;t elicit any signs of having been away from the competitive arena for nearly four months. She achieved a flawless scorecard with seven first-time clearances from 1.80m all the way up to 2.02m to match her Ukrainian indoor record which she set in Karlsruhe last January.
Still only 19, Mahuchikh faced her domestic rival Yuliya Levchenko who matched her younger compatriot all the way through to 1.95m before bowing out of the competition at the next height of 1.98m. Levchenko's training partner Iryna Herashchenko finished third with a 1.92m clearance which matched the previous world lead held by three-time world champion Mariya Lasitskene.&nbsp;
Mahuchikh made 1.95m, 1.98m and 2.02m all on her first attempts before three unsuccessful attempts at 2.04m. This would have matched her outright lifetime best from the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha where she won silver less than a fortnight after celebrating her 18th birthday.
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Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk was also in action but the reigning European and world long jump silver medallist opened her campaign in the 60m as opposed to her specialist event. Bekh-Romanchuk tested her speed with a 7.58 clocking to finish second behind Mariya Mokrova in 7.49.
Elsewhere, former world and European medallist Lyudmyla Olyanovska set a national indoor 5000m race walk record of 20:59.1 and European bronze medallist Serhiy Nykfyorov won the long jump with 7.92m.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh's 2.00m-plus clearances
30 June 2019 - Palo Alto, 2.00m (3)
30 September 2019 - Doha (World Athletics Championships), 2.04m (2)
18 January 2020 - Lviv, 2.01m (1)
31 January 2020 - Karlsruhe, 2.02m (1)
22 February 2020 - Sumy (Ukrainian Indoor Championships), 2.01m (1)
23 August 2020 - Stockholm, 2.00m (1)
9 January 2021 - Kyiv, 2.02m (1)
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Mahuchikh soars over 2.02m on her season’s debut in Kyiv

The European Athletics High Performance Webinar series has been extended through until mid-June to ensure learning can continue and ideas can still be shared in spite of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The series recommences on Friday 8 January with a lecture entitled &lsquo;Rebuilding stronger - lessons learned from the pandemic&rsquo; which will be given by Swiss international hammer thrower Martin Bingisser.
This is one of three one hour-long lectures which will be given in January, and one of 13 which are due to take place across the next six months. To register for the High Performance Webinar series, please click on <a href="https://register.event-works.com/ea/ea_HPWS_2021/e/cp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this link</a> and follow the instructions.
The High Performance Webinar series is aimed predominantly at coaches, sport scientists and other medical staff such as doctors and physios as well as athletes. The full schedule can be found <a href="https://twitter.com/hannengland/status/1346892199720574977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.&nbsp;
Further details on the European Athletics High Performance Webinar series can be obtained from the European Athletics Development Department at development@european-athletics.org.
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European Athletics High Performance Webinar series to recommence on Friday

The track for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Barcelona 1995, provided by the European Athletics Preferred Supplier Mondo, is being installed once again in the Catalan City&rsquo;s famous Palau Sant Jordi.
Work started on Monday this week (28) to re-install the track after an absence of nearly 25 years, which was noted at the time back in the mid-1990s for its innovative red, yellow and blue colour scheme.
The first indoor athletics competition at the Palau Sant Jordi for more than 25 years is scheduled for weekend of 16 and 17 January.
After the 1995 World Athletics Indoor Championships, the hydraulic banked track, which was among the first in Europe, was moved about 30 kilometres to nearby Vilafranca del Penedes where it staged more than 10 indoor meetings a year between 1996 to 2010 including a number of national championships.
The track has been based in the neighbouring city of Sabadell for the last decade but with the Sant Oleguer indoor arena there being used as a temporary hospital during the coronavirus pandemic, an agreement was reached recently between the Barcelona City Council and the Catalan Athletics Federation for the much-travelled track to return to where is first saw top class competition.
The Palau Sant Jordi was the main indoor arena during the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, where is staged the artistic gymnastics competitions as well as volleyball and handball matches. In more recent times, the Palau has become one of Spain&rsquo;s major venues for large scale concerts but with such events currently not taking place due to the pandemic, it was time for the six-lane track (with an eight-lane straight in the middle) to &lsquo;come home&rsquo; to ensure the region can continue to stage international indoor meetings like those that have taken place in Sabadell on the same track in recent years.
The hydraulic track, <a href="https://www.mondoworldwide.com/emea/en/sport/track-and-field/">which Mondo developed and introduced to the market in 1988, </a>features two curved sections that can be banked to enable runners to maintain their top speeds going into turns. The hydraulic system can raise and lower the running surface in a just a few minutes.
Europe provided 13 of the 27 winners in Barcelona in 1995 &ndash; the women&rsquo;s pole vault wasn&rsquo;t yet contested at major international championships &ndash; with the highlight being the women&rsquo;s triple jump world indoor record of 15.03m by Russia&rsquo;s Yolanda Chen, the first women to break the 15-metre barrier indoors.
Other notable performances included Ukraine&rsquo;s Sergey Bubka adding to his incredible list of major international titles with his fourth world indoor pole vault gold medal, clearing 5.90m, and Germany&rsquo;s Alina Astafei winning the high jump title with 2.01m and Romanian teenager Gabriela Szabo winning her first major international senior title &ndash; with many more to come in an illustrious career &ndash; when she kicked to victory off the final turn of the 3000m to win in 8:54.50.
Mondo have provided the competition surface for 13 of the 17 World Athletics Indoor Championships to date as well as 13 of the last 16 European Athletics Indoor Championships since 1988. They will also be providing the tracks for the next two events as well: in Torun, Poland on 5-7 March 2021 and Istanbul, Turkey on 2-5 March 2023.

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Mondo's 1995 world indoor championships track finally returns home

European Athletics&rsquo; final question-and-answer session with a trail blazing women&rsquo;s leader in our sport is with the President of Luxembourg Athletics Federation &ndash;&nbsp;F&eacute;d&eacute;ration Luxembourgeoise d'Athl&eacute;tisme &ndash; Stephanie Empain.&nbsp;
She is one of only a small number of women at the head of a national athletics federation in Europe.
How did you become involved with athletics?
I started being involved in athletics at the age of six thanks to a local club reaching out to my school and involving us in their activities and continued competing until I was about 20.
I was quite successful as a teenager but unfortunately, with my studies, I didn&rsquo;t really have much time to stay involved and so stopped competing. However, athletics at that age gave me a lot of friends and I always stayed in contact with the sport. In fact, when I was young, my best friend&rsquo;s father was actually the Luxembourg federation president.
A few decades later you are now the national athletics federation president. How did that happen? After university (where she studied political science), I joined the army where I worked for the general staff. After that I was the head of my regional tourism office for six years. However, as mentioned, I always knew a lot of people involved in athletics from my own history in the sport.
I was elected to the Luxembourg parliament in October 2018 (as a member of the Green Party which is part of the ruling coalition) and became president of the Luxembourg athletics federation on 1 December 2018.
However, I had been asked before the parliamentary elections if I was interested in becoming president of the federation. I would not have applied directly myself to be president but when other federation officials asked me, I didn&rsquo;t hesitate. I quickly agreed and now I&rsquo;m very happy to be able to give something back to athletics.
How do you juggle both jobs?
Sleeping less! I also have two young children, and that doesn&rsquo;t make things easier. Being the president of our national athletics federation is a voluntary position, but I was raised to believe that you should dare to do things and my background in both the army and tourism gave me a good understanding of how medium-sized companies work, and that is really what the federation is.
For many reasons, it is harder than ever to find volunteers to be involved in sports organisations, it is a challenge for many sports federations not just in athletics. However, it is also clear our federation needs to become more professional, so they are many things for me to do although there was already a good basis built before I became the president.
What about specific European Athletics Women&rsquo;s Leadership Programme activities?
My first real involvement in this context was with the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.european-athletics.org/athletics-community/women-leaders/news/article=european-athletics-launches-women-leadership-webinar-series.html">Women&rsquo;s Leadership Programme Webinar Project</a>&nbsp;this summer. It is worth noting that the Programme itself was already well-established before my first involvement.
I found it truly inspiring to get to know other women via the Webinar Project, find out about their characters, and take the chance to build a network. It is really interesting to see all these women coming from different positions &ndash; coaches, athletes, officials etc. &ndash; coming together and see what issues they face in these various positions. It has helped me reflect on what I individually, and what we collectively, can do better.
What are your hopes for the future with regards to the role and status of women in our sport? In general, it is harder for women than men to progress and reach higher positions and this must change, not just in athletics. However, I am proud of the fact that within my federation there is a good gender balance with around 40 per cent of our officials being female. In addition, although I did not personally experience any specific barriers to reaching my position (as president), I should say that it is harder to cope with the subsequent attention, with the media treating you differently than they would treat a man and I would encourage them to change their way of thinking.
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Stephanie Empain: "I found the Webinar Project truly inspiring"

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