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Sebastian Coe re-elected President of World Athletics for third term
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Sebastian Coe speaks at a press conference ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, August 17, 2023. /CFP
Sebastian Coe speaks at a press conference ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, August 17, 2023. /CFP

Sebastian Coe speaks at a press conference ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, August 17, 2023. /CFP

Sebastian Coe was re-elected president of World Athletics for a third term, the governing body said in a statement after its 54th Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday.

With a total of 192 votes and three abstaining, Coe will serve his third and final term since taking the position in 2015.

"I'm grateful for the support of my colleagues and delighted to see that more of the commitments we made during the governance reform process in 2016 have come to fruition with the election of World Athletics' first gender equal council four years ahead of schedule," Coe said.

"But the job is not done yet and we need to keep pushing for gender parity throughout our representative bodies."

Ximena Restrepo was re-elected as vice president, joined by newly elected Raul Chapado, Adille Sumariwalla and Jackson Tuwei .

The global body added that it had met its minimum gender target set out in 2016 of having 13 members of each gender elected to the World Athletics Council four years early. World Athletics has until its 2027 Congress to meet the remaining requirement from its 2016 reform plan of having two vice presidents of each gender.

(With input from Reuters)

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