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MONGOLIA AT IAAF CONGRESS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 50th Congress of the International Association of Athletics Federations are being held in Beijing, China, starting from August 17. Mongolia is represented at the action by the president of Mongolian Athletics Federation L.Bold MP, general secretary of the MAF Ch.Zorigtbaatar and the president of the Mongolian Sports Journalists Union Ch.Otgonbaatar. The congress elects the next president of the IAAF for the four years to come. Former Olympic 1500m champion Lord Sebastian Coe is the new president of the IAAF, the body that governs world athletics. The 58-year-old Briton beat rival Sergey Bubka, a former Olympic pole vault champion, by 115 votes to 92, BBC reported on Wednesday. The congress will close on August 20.

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