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(World Athletics Federation)
World Athletics congratulates Senior Vice-President Ximena Restrepo on her election to the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) Council. Restrepo will continue athletics’ representation on the Council following the conclusion of World Athletics President Sebastian Coe’s two full terms.
Restrepo, who was elected through 2025-2027, said: “I am incredibly grateful to Seb for his unwavering support and encouragement in my bid to become elected to the ASOIF Council. I would also like to thank those international federations who have shown their trust in me to represent their collective interests related to the Summer Olympic Games and the Olympic movement.”
President Coe said: “I am delighted that Ximena has been deservedly elected on to the ASOIF Council. I am proud that athletics continues to lead by example in successfully putting forward such an accomplished female sports administrator to become one of only two female representatives on the ASOIF Council.
“As an Olympic medallist and first-class sports leader, Ximena knows as well as anyone that athletes are the heart and soul of the Olympic Games – and that without the international federations we have no athletes and without the athletes, we have no Olympic Games.
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“As my term on the ASOIF Council has come to an end, I would like to thank all my Council colleagues, all the international federations for their support, and Presidents Ingmar De Vos and Francesco Ricci Bitti for their leadership.”
Restrepo is one of South America’s most successful sprinters. She took Olympic 400m bronze in 1992, earning Colombia’s first Olympic medal in athletics and becoming the first Colombian woman to win an Olympic medal. Her time in that race, 49.64, still stands as a Colombian record and South American record
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Restrepo competed at four Olympic Games in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and three World Championships, making the finals in 1991 and 1993.
Throughout her career, she won numerous medals and titles at the South American Championships, Pan-American Games, Ibero-American Championships and South American Games.
Restrepo was elected to the World Athletics Council in 2019 and is the first female Senior Vice-President in the organisation’s history. Thorughout her tenure as an athletics administrator she has held important positions including as a member of the World Athletics Human Rights Working Group and member and the World Athletics Gender Leadership Taskforce, whose remit is to provide oversight of World Athletics’ gender leadership strategy to mainstream equity and ensure sustainable leadership pathways for women.
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