Africa and Nigeria champion, Blessing Okagbare, has been nominated alongside 15 other athletes to run for the six seats in the IAAF Athletes Commission. According to the IAAF Press Division, all athletes accredited for IAAF World Championships (Beijing 2015) will have the right to vote in the elections, which will take place during the championships between August 23 and August 29 in the official team hotels.
To be eligible for nomination, athletes must have participated in at least one of the past two editions of the IAAF World Championships or in the most recent Olympic Games or be a competitor at this year’s IAAF World Championships. Okagbare who won bronze in long jump at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, also claimed silver at the 2013 World Championships. She also won a bronze medal in the 200m final in Moscow in 2013. The 26-year-old star also won gold medals in 100m and 200m respectively in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
The names of the six elected members of the commission will be announced before the end of the championships and they will begin their mandate on January 1, 2016. “Athletes are a vital pillar in sports and should remain at the heart of the decision-making process in all sport governing bodies,’’ said Namibian Frankie Fredericks, chairman of the IAAF Athletes’ Commission.
The nominees are Valerie Adams (New Zealand), Mehdi Baala (France), Mutaz Barshim (Qatar), Nataliia Dobrynska (Ukraine), Michael Frater (Jamaica), Jacques Frisch (Luxemborg), Yelena Isinbaeva (Russia), Vanda Juhasz (Hungary), Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya), Fabiana Murer (Brazil) and Koji Murofushi (Japan). Others are Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria), Christian Olsson (Sweden), Aliann Pompey (Guyana), Alina Talay (Belarus), and Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway).
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