Senegal's Lamine Diack was overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday, but vice president Sergei Bubka needed a second vote to retain his position. Bubka, the retired world pole vault record holder from Ukraine, had finished an out-of-the running fifth in the original vote by the governing body's congress. But officials said there had been a technical problem with the voting system and ordered a new vote by hand. This time Bubka made the top four, picking up 41 votes from the first ballot. He finished behind American Robert Hersh, Qatar's Dahlan Al-Hamad and Coe with Canadian Abby Hoffman, the first-vote co-leader with Al-Hamad, fifth.
