Sebastian Coe won the election duel with Sergei Bubka won the presidential the World Athletics Association. With 115: 92 votes, the Briton prevailed against the Ukrainians. DLV president Clemens Prokop did not make it to the IAAF Council.
The former world-class runner Sebastian Coe is the new president of the World Athletics Association. During the 50th IAAF Congress on Wednesday in Beijing, the 58-year-old Englishman sat with 115: 92 votes against Sergei Bubka clear through. For the seven years younger than Ukrainians, it was the second major sports political defeat: Almost two years ago he failed with the candidacy for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach
Bubka but will remain in the IAAF leadership: In the election of the Vice President, he cut by 187 votes out on top
Coe:. “I will not betray your trust”
DLV president Clemens Prokop failed in his bid for a seat on the IAAF Council. In the first ballot received the head of the German Athletics Association 66 votes in the second round only 45 votes. So far, the DLV was represented by Helmut Digel in the IAAF government. The Tübingen did not run.
“In my life, there was not a task for which I was better prepared. I will not betray your trust,” said Coe. He is the sixth president in the 103-year-history of IAAF. Double Olympic champion Coe replaces the Senegalese Lamine Diack, who served nearly 16 years as President. “We have had two good candidates. I am pleased to have a successor,” Diack said. “Seb Coe is a man who has devoted his entire life to our sport.
Coe impressed at the Olympics in London
The new IAAF-boss wants the core Olympic sport with numerous reform projects more attractive and make modern. Priority here has the fight against doping. Recent publications about possible manipulations had the image of the Olympic discipline damaged again. So the allegation was in an ARD documentation collected, the IAAF have possibly concealed blood doping cases.
Lord Coe had done as OC President of the 2012 Olympics in his hometown of London a convincing work and get a lot of praise. The head of the British NOK was 1980 and 1984 Olympic champion over 1,500 meters and held for 16 years the 800-meter world record.
Bubka congratulated fair
As a fair loser Sergej Bubka showed. “Seb, I wish you to lead our sport well into the future. The Athletics will grow and become more and more “, said the multiple pole vault world record holder
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