Kim Forge competing in Japan at the Pacific Asia championships.
Curling stalwart Kim Forge has been elected as a director on the World Curling Federation Board.
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Kim was the Australian Curling Federation President from 2013 to 2022 and has worked on World Curling Federation Commissions from 2016 to 2021 including the World Athletes Commission.
The 51-year-old from Burramine was delighted to join the world board of eight members, the only other Australian being vice-president Hugh Millikin, formerly of Canada.
In 2015, Kim Forge in Sochi, Russia at the world championships.
Kim’s appointment is for an initial two-year term. She beat two opponents on the second round of voting.
“I feel an incredible sense of pride and I look forward to working with the board and our members to advance the sport of curling globally,” Kim told the Yarrawonga Chronicle.
“I bring a passion for the game and a commitment to achieving the best results possible for those involved.”
Kim has represented Australia 135 times, competing in eight world championships – four world mixed championships and four world mixed doubles championships.
World Curling Federation President Beau Welling of the USA said he was thrilled with Kim’s appointment. “Kim has been an enthusiastic and engaged participant in our sport, in a wide variety of capacities, for a number of years,” he said.
“That range of knowledge is extremely valuable for the Federation and the sport overall. I’m excited to talk to Kim about her ideas on how we move our sport forward.”
Interest in curling in Australia is growing and expected to soar according to Kim. “There are 300 curlers registered in Australia,” she said.
Kim Forge, delivering an address in Switzerland at Olympic Headquarters in September last year.
“The numbers will absolutely explode with a beautiful new facility in Canberra in two years. At the moment we don’t have the high standard training facilities of other countries.”
Kim and husband Rod Forge have three children, with two being social curlers and their 16-year-old daughter Marcy who represented Australia in the Youth Olympic Championships last August.
The highly academically qualified, very experienced and competent administrative Kim, who has delivered some 30 presentations on curling – including one at the March 2018 Victorian State Conference hosted by the Rotary Club of Yarrawonga Mulwala - is sure to make a big contribution at the world board level, starting later this month with her first global board meeting in Canada - her original home country.
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