Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Newbold Coe Baron Coe CH KBE Hon FRIBA is a British sports administrator former politician and retired track and field athlete As a middledistance runner Coe won four Olympic medals including 1500 metres gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984 He set nine outdoor and three indoor world records in middledistance track events including in 1979 setting three world records in the space of 41 days and the world record he set in the 800 metres in 1981 remained unbroken until 1997 Coes rivalries with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram dominated middledistance racing for much of the 1980s Following Coes retirement from athletics he was a Conservative member of parliament from 1992 to 1997 for Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall and became a Life Peer on 16 May 2000 Coe headed the successful London 2012 Olympic bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics and became chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games In 2007 he was elected a vicepresident of the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF and reelected for another fouryear term in 2011 In August 2015 he was elected president of the IAAF