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IOC president Bach re-elected until 2025

Wednesday, 10 March 2021 6:22 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 10 March 2021 6:22 PM ]

Thomas Bach has been re-elected as president of the International Olympic Committee for a final 4-year term, following a virtual session on Wednesday.

The 67-year-old German lawyer who has been in charge of the IOC since 2013, won an unopposed second term in an online process, with 93 of the 94 eligible votes, which will keep him in the office until 2025.

Bach is the organisation's 9th president since the body's founding in 1894, succeeding outgoing president Jacques Rogge.

During his tenure, Bach had to navigate through the fallout of a 2014 Sochi Olympics doping scandal that eventually led to consecutive Olympic bans of Russia, and he had to deal with the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bach was also a gold medalist in fencing, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

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