Type | Sports federation |
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Headquarters | Dubai, UAE |
President | Osama AlShaafar |
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The national federations of the UCI form confederations by continent. In Asia, this body is the Asian Cycling Confederation, also shortened to ACC.
President | Country | Years | |
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Dr. Khaled Al-Turki | Saudi Arabia | 1993 | 1996 |
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Darshan Singh Gill | Malaysia | 1996 | 2005 |
Cho Hee-wook | South Korea | 2005 | 2017 |
Osama AlShaafar | United Arab Emirates | 2017 | present |
As of September 2022, the ACC consists of 45 member federations, following Bhutan's admission to the UCI. [1] The ACC is henceforth represented in all member countries of the Olympic Council of Asia.
Name | Country | Years | ||
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Osama Al Shaafar | United Arab Emirates | 2017 | present | Automatically as ACC President |
Dato' Amarjit Singh Gill | Malaysia | 2017 | present | Elected at Bergen, Norway at UCI Congress 2017 |
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