Bubka and Coe IAAF vice presidents

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Former Olympic champions and world record holders Sebastien Coe and Sergei Bubka have both been elected as vice-presidents of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Coe, who won back-to-back 1 500 metres golds at the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and pole vault king Bubka, who won in Seoul in 1988, will serve four-year terms.

Also elected to the position of vice-presidents ahead of the World Championships were American Robert Hersh and Dahlan Al-Hamad of Qatar.

Senegal's Lamine Diack was voted into a final four-year term as the IAAF president.

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Excerpts from the IAAF election results...

Vice Presidents (4 seat/s)
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Round: 1
Total Votes: 192 - Total Abstain: 4 - Absolute Majority: 97

FRANCIS Amadeo I.D. (PUR) 81
BUBKA Sergey (UKR) ELECTED 167
HERSH Robert (USA) ELECTED 141
COE Sebastian (GBR) ELECTED 137
AL-HAMAD Dahlan (QAT) ELECTED 129
DIGEL Helmut (GER) 113

and

Council - Individual Members (11 seat/s)
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Round: 1
Total Votes: 195 - Total Abstain: 3 - Absolute Majority: 98

SIMOHAMED Jamel (ALG) 97
FRANCIS Amadeo I.D. (PUR) 96
CHEHAB Claire (LIB) 71
KOUKODIMOS Konstantinos (GRE) 60
JOSEPH Keith (VIN) 54
LUVSANVANDAN Bold (MGL) 31
TANAKA Katsuyuki (JPN) ELECTED 170
BALAKHNICHEV Valentin (RUS) ELECTED 166
DIGEL Helmut (GER) ELECTED 163
JUANTORENA DANGER Alberto (CUB) ELECTED 161
KANERVA Ilkka (FIN) ELECTED 158
ODRIOZOLA Jose Maria (ESP) ELECTED 150
PARK Jung-Ki (KOR) ELECTED 148
LUO Chaoyi (CHN) ELECTED 143
KIPLAGAT Isaiah F. (KEN) ELECTED 143
MORENO BRAVO Cesar (MEX) ELECTED 119
CHUENE Leonard (RSA) ELECTED 112
SZEWINSKA Irena (POL) 103

And an article from AllSport.ru (not my translation) ...
[quote]03:16 23.08.2007
Sergey Bubka: IAAF needs such extraordinary people as Valentin Balakhnichev
On August, 22 the IAAF Council started working at the Osaka International Convention Center and the elections for the high governing positions took place. The special correspondents of the Agency of sport information “All Sportâ€Â