Thomas Bach has been re-elected as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for an additional four-year term.
At the 137th IOC Session held virtually on Wednesday, Bach received 93 ‘yes’ and 1 ‘no’ vote from the 94 valid votes.
Bach, the 67-year-old German who won gold with the West German foil fencing team at the Olympic Games Montreal in 1976, was elected as IOC President at the IOC Session in 2013 in Buenos Aires for a first eight-year term.
This term will finish on the closing day of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 on August 8 this year, as decided by the IOC Executive Board.
His second term as IOC President will start immediately after and will conclude in 2025.
“Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for this overwhelming vote of confidence and trust. For me, this is even more overwhelming considering the many reforms and the many difficult decisions we had to take, which affected all of us,” Bach said after his re-election, in an IOC release.