With the end of the Indoor World Championship of Athletics the Debrecen Sport Centre Public Utility Co. organized an International Coach Conference on 8-9 March, 2004.

The traditional creator goals of the conference are sharing experiences and information from all walks of this sport art in the organization of the IAAF Training center, further more making the sport even more popular on international, national and local scenes.
On the conference participated Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF, István Gyulai, chief secretary, Cesar Moreno, Bravo Council member, Igor Ter-Ovanesian, president of the Coach Delegation, Elio Locatelli, member of the Coach Delegation, and many other coaches, athlets, etc. The Hungarian Olympic Committee was represented by Dr. Pál Schmitt, Zoltán Molnár and Iván Medvegy.

President Lamine Diack took over from mayor Lajos Kósa the honour regard of Debrecen city, because of his unforgetable work in the international sport life. Lajos Kósa also gave to the chief secretary István Gyulai a reward, the Alfréd Hajós- Award provided by the Committee of Debrecen.
The conference's opening speech was held by Lamine Diack, and the main points of the meeting were the preparing, improving, training method of active sportmen, role and responsibility of sport managers, food supplements and the medical check-up.
Jelena Isinbayeva, winner of the Athletics Indoor World Championship, and Evgeny Trofimov, World Recorder of the ladies' pole-vaulting, was also hosted on the International IAAF Coach Conference, which was organized by the Debrecen Sportcenter Ltd.

I show my appreciation to the courageous initiation of the IAAF Debrecen Sportcenter, who organized the International Choac Conference after organizing the Athletics Indoor World Championship in Budapest.
The main goal of the conference is- which according to the expectations of the organizers would be a regular meeting each year- nothing else, than a place for sharing ideas, information and opinions with each other- from the different fields of athletics.
As in every other walks of life, changes happen in athletics bewilderly, so it is just as important to know about the latest developments, considering not just the sport science, but the way, how people look at it and think about it. That's why the conference wanted to discuss, apart from the issues of the coach's, the issues of the sportmen as well. We need their support just as much as we need the support of the sport doctors, scientists, journalists and fans.
I think it is a reasonable step to connect the conference to the Athetics Indoor World Championship, and to use the mementon of this sport event for inviting several honourable performer who's followers themselves go for the medals in Budapest. Above the lectures about the coach work, other topics came up on the conference as well, such as the medical stuff, and the recent dutyes and work of coaches' and athletes' representatives in the world of sport.

Finally i would like to congratulate to the efforts of the Debrecen IAAF Trainingcenter's very enthusiastic team, therefore they demonstrate spectactularly the facilities of the elit sportcenter of the IAAF to people from all over the World.

Lamine Diack,
President of the International Athletic Federation