John West

John West (in light blue polo shirt on left) of New Zealand Swimming serves as the head referee at numerous FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup and FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix events

Members of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee with FINA Executives

John Graeme West of New Zealand is an open water swimming administrator.

Open Water Swimming Highlights

• He is a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee (TOWSC) for the 2009-2013, 2013-2017 and 2017-2021 terms.
• He often serves as the Head Referee in several international competitions.
• He served as the Head Referee for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games women's 10 km marathon swim.
• He served as the Assistant to the Head Referee in the men's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim and a Referee in the women's event held Tokyo Bay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games on 4-5 August 2021.
• He is a television executive who serves many roles within the New Zealand Swimming Federation where he served as its president and FINA.

Members of TOWSC

He is a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee.

2021-2025 FINA TOWSC Members

• Chairperson Sid Cassidy (USA)
• Vice Chairperson Ferry Weertman (Netherlands)
• Honorary Secretary John West (New Zealand)
• Committee Member Avelino Monteiro Avelino (Senegal)
• Committee Member Emilie Van Veenhuyzen (South Africa)
• Committee Member Jorge Delgado (Ecuador)
• Committee Member Tomás Haces (Cuba)
• Committee Member Abdul Al Alawi (Oman)
• Committee Member Ioki Ichikawa (Japan)
• Committee Member Petros Arestis (Cyprus)
• Committee Member Baret Avedikoglu (Turkey)
• Committee Member Szabolcs Fodor (Hungary)
• Committee Member Luis Liberato (Portugal)
• Committee Member Britta Kamrau (Germany)
• Committee Member Bill Ford (Australia)
• Events Sub-committee Member Nikolay Zagritsenko (Kazakhstan)
• Events Sub-committee Member Tanya Bogomilova (Bulgaria)
• Events Sub-committee Member Andrea Prayer (Italy)
• Events Sub-committee Member Juan Carlos Tenorio (Venezuela)
• Events Sub-committee Member Edward Cheng (Hong Kong)
• Events Sub-committee Member Ziyad Kashmiri (Saudi Arabia)
• Paris 2024 Olympic Games liaison Bénédicte Compois (France)
• FINA Bureau Liaison Zouheir El Moufti (Morocco)

2017-2021 FINA TOWSC Members

• Ronnie Wong, Chairman
  
• Sid Cassidy, Vice Chairman
  
• Sam Greetham, Honorary Secretary
  
• Britta Kamrau, Athlete Representative
  
• Abdul Monem Khamis Al Alawi, Member
  
• Abdulla Al Zahmi, Member
  
• Luís Baptista, Member
  
• Jorge Delgado, Member
  
• Bill Ford, Member
  
• Avelino Monteiro, Member
  
• Jean-Paul Narce, Member
  
• Andrea Prayer, Member
  
• Fernando Terrilli, Member
  
• Samuel Ufitimana, Member
  
• John West, Member
  
• Tanya Bogomilova, Events Sub-Committee
  
• Soh Yew Siang Soh, Events Sub-Committee
  
• Morgan Toro Martinez, Events Sub-Committee
  
• Noam Zwi, Events Sub-Committee
  
• Zouheir El Moufti, Bureau Liaison
  

2013-2017 FINA TOWSC Members

Chairman: Ronnie Wong of Hong Kong
Vice Chairman: Jorge Delgado Panchana of Ecuador
Honorary Secretary: Andrea Prayer of Italy
Representatives of the African region:
Joaquim Pestana Costa of Angola
David Ngugi of Kenya
Abdulmonem Alalawi of Egypt
Representatives of the Americas region:
Fernando Terrilli of Argentina
Tomas Haces German of Cuba
Sid Cassidy of USA
Representatives of the Asian region:
Abdulmonem Al Alawi of Oman
Mubarak Abdulla Al Zahmi of United Arab Emirates
Representatives of the European region:
Jean Paul Narce of France
Samuel Greetham of Great Britain
Noam Zwi of Israel
Representatives of the Oceania region:
William Ford of Australia
John West of New Zealand
Events Sub-Committee:
Christiane Fanzeres of Brazil
Ayman Saad of Egypt
Jon Hestoy of Faroe Islands
FINA Bureau Liaison is Dennis Miller of Fiji

2009-2013 FINA TOWSC Members

1. Ronnie Wong Man Chiu, Chairman
2. Jorge Aurelio Delgado Panchana, Vice Chairman
3. Flavio Bomio, Honorary Secretary
4. Sid Cassidy, Member [replacing Steven Munatones of USA]
5. Khwaja Aziz, Member
6. Valerijus Belovas, Member
7. Tomas Haces German, Member
8. Samuel Greetham, Member
9. Zouheir El Moufti, Member
10. Andrea Prayer, Member
11. John West, Member
12. Noam Zwi, Member
13. Washington Beltran, Events Sub-Committee
14. Hatem Seifallah Mohamed Ibrahim, Events Sub-Committee
15. Shelley Taylor-Smith, Events Sub-Committee
16. Dennis Miller, FINA Bureau Liaison

External links

• Officials Leading The Way To The 2024 Paris Olympics Marathon Swim
• Say It Ain’t So, Ronnie Wong. Thank You Very Much
• Officiating At The Tokyo Olympics – The Men’s 10K Marathon Swim
• Officiating At The Tokyo Olympics – The Women’s 10K Marathon Swim
• Olympic Swimmers Will Get Up A Little Earlier In The Heat
• FINA Officials Behind The Scenes: John West
• 2012 Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km Coverage
• FINA Open Water Swimming Officials Schools In 2013
• Marathon Swimming
• Experimentation In The Sport Of Open Water Swimming
• Open Water Swimming Epicenter Shifts To Egypt
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
• Daily News of Open Water Swimming
• I Got Stung
• World Marathon Swimming Association
• Sid Cassidy To Serve As Head Referee In Olympics
• John West Plays Fair, Judges Objectively In A Tough Position
• Sid Cassidy To Serve As Head Referee In Rio
• What To Look For At The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
• FINA Should Listen To Jack Burnell And His Competitors
• He Said, He Said. Different Views Of Olympic 10K Marathon
• Congratulations Rio. Top Moments In The Olympic 10K
• Sid Cassidy Volunteers For Decades In The Open Water