{"id":833,"date":"2015-08-19T07:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/sebastian-coe-elected-iaaf-president\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T07:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:41:29","slug":"sebastian-coe-elected-iaaf-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/sebastian-coe-elected-iaaf-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Coe Elected IAAF President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The voting was as follows (207 Member Federations cast their votes):<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sebastian Coe 115 votes, Sergey Bubka 92 votes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&quot;I am deeply honoured that our sport has placed its trust in me. There is no job I want to do more \u2013 nor with greater commitment,&quot; said Coe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Among the first to congratulate Sebastian Coe were the current IAAF President Lamine Diack and Sergey Bubka, who was later elected as an IAAF Vice President.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&quot;We have a man who has devoted his life to the sport.&quot; commented President Diack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&quot;I know that athletics in the future will grow, and become stronger and stronger,&quot; added Bubka.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Coe will take office on 31 August, after the end of the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i><br \/>IAAF<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Coe was elected as the sixth IAAF President at the 50th IAAF Congress in Beijing,...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}