With Lamine Diak's decision to step down as president, the two time Olympic middle-distance champion
Sebastian Coe has declared his candidacy for the top job of the
International Association of Athletics Federations, setting up a likely
election battle next year against pole vault great Sergei Bubka.
The 58-year-old Coe headed the organizing committee of the 2012 London Games and has been an IAAF vice president since 2007. He is expected to face competition from Bubka, also an IAAF vice president who has not yet formally announced his candidacy to succeed Lamine Diack, who has been president since 1999. The deadline for submission of candidacies is three months before the election, to be held on August 18 at the IAAF congress in Beijing on the eve of the world championships.
The 58-year-old Coe headed the organizing committee of the 2012 London Games and has been an IAAF vice president since 2007. He is expected to face competition from Bubka, also an IAAF vice president who has not yet formally announced his candidacy to succeed Lamine Diack, who has been president since 1999. The deadline for submission of candidacies is three months before the election, to be held on August 18 at the IAAF congress in Beijing on the eve of the world championships.
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