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BFA Presidential Awards
BFA established the biannually “Presidential Awards” and awarded to the
contributors of Asian baseball at an international level since 2011.

The criteria of selecting awardees is as follows,
1. Outstanding contribution to development of Asian baseball
2. At an international level over a period of at least five (5) years

BFA request executive committee members to nominate proper persons
for the awarded year.

Winners of Presidential Awards in 2013
Mr. Allan Mak Nin Fung (Hong Kong)
Mr. Heo, Koo-Young (Korea)
Mr. Kunifumi Itakura (Japan, nominated by Philippines)
Mr. Shaukat Javed (Pakistan)
Mr. Yukichi Maeda (Japan)

Tom Peng Elected as President of Tokyo: Tom Peng of Chinese Taipei was elected unopposed In addition to these executive positions, the new President
Peng nominated Kazuhiro Tawa (Japan) as Senior Advisor
at the BFA Congress held in Tokyo on Saturday, April 13
Baseball Federation 2013, previous day of the IBAF Congress. In his inaugural to BFA and plans to ask Khawar Shah (Pakistan) to play an
executive role to develop baseball in West Asia.
address, Peng assured “Just like the way I have worked
for my construction company, I will treat this project with
of Asia (BFA) the highest professionalism and commitment and build Outgoing BFA President Seung-Kyoo Kang presented
the BFA on strong, useful and steady foundation.” “No
Presidential Award to 5 people for their contribution to the
racism, no cultural difference but only one language: the
development of baseball in Asia: Yukichi Maeda (Japan),
baseball language!” said Peng. Allan Mak Nin Fung (Hong Kong), Shaukat Javed (Pakistan),
Kunifumi Itakura (Japan, nominated by Philippines) and
Over 20-Year Veteran Yoshinobu Suzuki (Japan), Ms. Shen Wei (China) and Kim Heo Koo-Young (Korea). VP Suzuki awarded a plaque to
President Kang in appreciation of his contribution during
Jung-Up (Korea) were elected unopposed as Vice Presidents
and Lin Hua-Wei (Chinese Taipei) was named as Secretary his term in the office.
of International Baseball General.
Out of 24 countries/regions in BFA, 18 National Federations
Finally at the Helm in Asia In the ballot, 3 members at large were confirmed: Alan were represented at the BFA Congress, namely: Brunei,
China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Mak (Hong Kong), Vutichai Udomkarnjananan (Thailand)
and Tom Navasero (Philippines). Iraq, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan,
Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uzbekistan.

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