Seville to host 1999 World
Championships in Athletics
March
20 1997
TURIN - Italy -
The Spanish city Seville will host the 7th
World Championships in Athletics. This was
decided today by the IAAF Council, meeting in
Turin under the presidency of Dr Primo Nebiolo.
Three other cities were candidates for the
Championships: the capitals of India and Finland,
New Delhi and Helsinki and Stanford (USA), home
to one of the world’s most famous
universities.
Members of the Sevilla '99 bidding
committee celebrate their success on the eve of
the 25th IAAF- Pirelli World Cross Country
Championships in Turin.
After receiving
the delegations from the four cities who
presented to Council their proposals, the vote
was taken. To be elected in the first round, a
candidate had to obtain an absolute majority: 26
members of the Council being present at the vote
(the 27th member Anji Aoki of Japan
was unable to attend), 14 votes were required for
an absolute majority. This necessary condition
being fulfilled, the selection of Seville was
confirmed.
The Spanish
Minister for Sport, Pedro Antonio Martin, the
Mayor of Seville, Señ ora Soledad Becerril and the
President of the Spanish Royal Athletics
Federation, Professor José Maria Odriozola, who headed the
delegation, expressed their great satisfaction:
for Seville this was some compensation after the
city’s exclusion from the short list of
candidates for the 2004 Olympics.
The Council, which
will close its session tomorrow, on the eve of
the 25th IAAF -Pirelli World Cross
Country Championships, also decided to accept two
new federations as provisional members, Palau and
Eritrea. These admissions will take the number of
Member Federations to a record 209.
Finally, past
Olympic hammer throw champion Andrey Abduvaliyev
(TJK) has been authorised to compete for
Uzbekistan.
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