Commonwealth Games Federation gets new executive board

Source: Xinhua| 2019-09-06 09:36:21|Editor: ZD
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KIGALI, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The 2019 Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly on Thursday elected members to the executive board and sports committee of the federation in Rwanda's capital Kigali.

Scottish Louise Martin was re-elected CGF president for a second four-year term. She was first elected in 2015, becoming the first female to hold this office in the history of the Commonwealth Sports Movement.

Others elected included three CGF vice presidents, namely Kereyn Smith from New Zealand, Chris Jenkins from Wales and Bruce Robertson from Canada.

New regional vice presidents for the Americas, Asia and Europe were elected respectively, while regional vice presidents for Africa, Caribbean and Oceania were reelected.

Every position on the sports committee was also elected in the elections.

"Looking back over the last quadrennial, I am overwhelmed by a sense of pride from our collective achievements at the endeavors of Commonwealth athletes, at the success of our flagship events and how we have adapted and responded to challenges as well as harnessed opportunities," Martin said while addressing the general assembly shortly after the elections.

She called on members to continue to deliver on the strategy outlined in the Transformation 2022 refreshed strategy plan, which was approved during the general assembly.

Around 300 delegates from 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth attended the general assembly, which ran from September 3 to 5.

It was convened a year before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Rwanda in 2020.

Rwanda, which joined the Commonwealth in 2009, is the newest member of the association, and the second country after Mozambique to join the Commonwealth without having historic ties to the United Kingdom.

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