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Britain's Sebastian Coe elected IAAF president

Xinhua, August 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Britain's Sebastian Coe was on Wednesday elected new president of IAAF, athletics' world governing body.

Coe won 115 votes from the 207 voting member federations that make up the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), with Sergey Bubka polling 92.

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