Yu Zaiqing voted into IOC executive board
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-08-12 09:08

Chinese Olympic Committee vice president Yu Zaiqing was elected into the International Olympic Committee executive board at the IOC 116th session in Athens on Wednesday.

Yu Zaiqing answers a reporter's question after being voted into the IOC executive board.[Xinhua]

Yu won the board's fifth seat after beating Richard Carrion (Puerto Rico), Phillip Walter Coles (Australia), Mostafa Hashemi Taba (Iran) and Carlos Arthur Nuzman (Brazil).

The four losers will vie for the sixth seat.

Yu gained 62 votes against Oswald's 48 in the final round of the voting.

Sergey Bubka of Ukraine, Denis Oswald of Switzerland, Ottavio Cingquanta of Italy and Mario Vazquez Rana of Mexico were earlier reelected into the executive board.

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