Thomas Bach re-elected as IOC President for 4 more years

Thomas Bach re-elected as IOC President for 4 more years

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has been re-elected for an additional four year-term at the 137th IOC Session.

The Olympic champion, who won gold as part of the West German foil fencing team at the Olympic Games of Montreal 1976 won the re-election on Wednesday with 93 ‘yes’ votes and one ‘no’ out of 94 total valid votes.

President Bach was first elected IOC President in Buenos Aires in 2013 for an eight-year term. That term will end on the last day of the Tokyo 2020 Games on 8 August 2021. With his second term beginning immediately after, concluding in 2025.

“Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for this overwhelming vote of confidence and trust,” the German said following his re-election. “For me, this is even more overwhelming considering the many reforms and the many difficult decisions we had to take which affected all of us.”

Thomas Bach was a Founding Member of IOC Atheletes Commission in 1981

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It is noteworthy that Thomas Bach was a founding member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission in 1981, on which he remained until 1988. In 1991, he became an IOC Member and sat on the IOC Executive Board between 1996 and 2013. He served as IOC Vice-President from 2000 to 2004, 2006 to 2010 and from 2010 until his election as IOC President in September 2013.

His second term as IOC President will start immediately after, and will conclude in 2025.

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