Great honor for Ron Froehlich
Ron Froehlich, Honorary Life President of the International World Games Association, has been named an Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Distinguished American Sportsman for 2015. This was announced by the Board of Directors of the State of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday. The 47th Annual Induction Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel.
Ron Froehlich said about the announcement: “Of course I feel honored. But I am convinced that this induction gives reputation to The World Games, too. It will help to promote this event.” IWGA President José Perurena sent his congratulations to his predecessor in office: “This induction is well deserved because for more than two decades Ron Froehlich was the engine of The World Games. Moreover, he made our success happen.”
From 1992 to 2014, Ron Froehlich served as the President of the International World Games Association (IWGA). At the Annual General Meeting 2014 in Belek he was named the IWGA Honorary Life President. In 2010, Ron Froehlich was awarded the Olympic Order, the highest award of the Olympic Movement, by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge.
Since 1962 he has been dedicating himself to the world of sports as a volunteer. He has been an elected Executive Board Member, and head of the audit committee for the International Federation of Gymnastics since 1998. Froehlich served on the International Olympic Program Committee from 2002 until 2014.
He joins other Distinguished American Sportsmen including Don Logan (2011), Rick Woodward (2010), Nick Bollettieri (2009), Joseph Gibbs (2008), Michael E. Stephens (2006), Jim Wilson Jr. (2005), Roy Kramer (2003), Bill Ireland (2000), Larry D. Striplin, Jr. (1998), Charles O. Finley (1993), Former President George H. Bush (1992), Hugh Culverhouse (1991) and Bob Hope (1988).
The 11th edition of The World Games will be held in Birmingham/Alabama in 2021.