Biography

Tron Espeli
Tron Espeli

Norway

1st Vice President - Speed Skating

2016 - present

Tron Espeli was reelected as a Vice President of the International Skating Union (ISU) at the ISU Congress in June 2022. His responsibility covers the sports disciplines Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating. Based on a rotation system with the Figure Skating branch he is currently the 1st Vice President of the ISU.

Prior to his election as ISU Vice President Speed Skating in 2016, he was Chair of the ISU Technical Committee for Speed Skating. During his period as Committee Chair the ISU Speed Skating World Cup developed as an essential part of the Speed Skating season, and two new Speed Skating events (Team Pursuit and Mass Start) were successfully implemented in ISU Championships and adopted in the program of the Olympic Winter Games. As ISU Technical Delegate he has overseen the Speed Skating competitions at the three most recent Olympic Winter Games (2014, 2018 and 2022). Tron was competition manager for Short Track Speed Skating at the Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games 1994, and he has served as an ISU Official at several ISU Short Track Championships.

Tron has a life-long passion for Speed Skating. Before he became an ISU Office Holder, he had various positions and assignments at club level and in the Norwegian Skating Association. He has been announcer at several ISU Championships and has contributed to publications on the past and present of Speed Skating. He is dedicated to developing the competition formats and event presentation of the two sports of the ISU Speed Skating Branch, and to promoting their successful world-wide growth.

In his professional life Tron has worked as a project manager and director of research at the Norwegian Computing Centre and as a special advisor for industrial research & innovation in the Research Council of Norway. He received a Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Oslo. He lives in Oslo and is married to Madeleine Fannemel, MD, who is a specialist in human genetics and psychiatry, now working as a clinical geneticist at Oslo University Hospital. They have two daughters, a sociologist working in media and a company lawyer.

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