Sebastian Coe elected IAAF president

Former Olympic 1500m champion Lord Coe has been elected president of athletics' governing body, the IAAF. The sport's 214 federations cast their votes in Beijing to decide who should lead the sport, which is dealing with the fall-out from a series of doping allegations.

Coe, the former London 2012 chairman, succeeds Senegalese Lamine Diack, 82, who has been in charge for 16 years.

Coe polled 115 votes to Ukrainian pole vault legend Sergey Bubka's 92.

The election was held three days before the 2015 World Championships get under way in Beijing and Coe's initial term will be for four years.