Mohammad Tayyab Ikram of Macau elected as new FIH president

Mohammad Tayyab Ikram of Macau elected as new FIH president

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: November 09 2022

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Macau’s Tayyab Ikram has been elected as new President of the International Hockey Federation on Saturday by the FIH Congress.
Ikram defeated Marc Coudron of Belgium 79-47 in the 48th FIH Congress held virtually.
The duration of the term of the new FIH President will be of 2 years in order to complete the mandate of previous FIH President Narinder Batra who resigned on 18 July.
Batra, who became the FIH president in 2016, resigned from the post in July. He also gave up his International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership which was directly linked with his IOA position.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Maureen Craig-Rousseau and Ghana’s Elizabeth Safoa King were re-elected to the FIH Executive Board, while Japan’s Hiroya Anzai, Poland’s Piotr Wilkonski and South Africa’s Deon Morgan were elected for the first time as FIH EB members.

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