Sebastian Coe Elected as International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Wednesday Aug 19,2015

 

Sebastian Coe has won a 4-year term as president of the governing body for track and field and has been given an immediate mandate to restore the image of an IAAF hierarchy grappling with a doping controversy.

Sebastian Coe(58) received 115 votes to Sergei Bubka’s 92 in the election Wednesday Aug 19,2015 to replace 82-year-old Lamine Diack of Senegal, who stood down after 16 years

Ukraine pole vault great Bubka, a former Olympic and world championship gold medallist and long-time world-record holder, retained his position as a vice president in a subsequent poll.

Dahlan Al Hamad, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum and Alberto Juantorena were elected as vice-presidents along with Bubka.

Jose Maria Odriozola of Spain was elected as treasurer.

USA Track and Field president Stephanie Hightower topped the list of six elected as female individual council members

Athletics Federation of India president Adille Sumariwalla was on Wednesday Aug 19,2015 elected as one of the members of the prestigious Council of the IAAF, the global governing body of the sport, in its polls held here.

Sumariwalla, an Olympian 100m runner, was elected as one of the nine individual members of the all-powerful IAAF Council at the 50th Congress of the world athletics body held ahead of the start of the World Athletics Championships (August 22-30).

Sumariwalla is the first Indian to be elected in the IAAF Council. He got 61 votes in the second round to get elected.

There were 211 eligible member federations voting in the election, with Afghanistan and Iran absent and Gabon under suspension

The IAAF election, held in the lead-up to the world championships which start Saturday in Beijing, has been overshadowed by intense criticism of the world body following media reports that it has failed to act on evidence of widespread blood doping

About Sebastian Coe(DOB Sep 29,1956)

Olympic Games

won Gold Medal in the 1500 Metres in the Olympic Games - 1980 Moscow and 1984 Lon Angeles
won GSilverMedal in the 800 Metres in the Olympic Games - 1980 Moscow and 1984 Lon Angeles

Politics

was elected as Member of Parliament for Falmouth and CAmborne in 1992 for the Conservative Party

Honours and Awards

chairman of the London 2012 bid and organizing committee

In November 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Brtish Olympic Association

In 2012 he was of one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the IAAF Hall of Fame

In December 2012 presented with the Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year