Former Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Secretary General Lalit Bhanot on Saturday lost the election for the post of senior vice president of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) here.
Bhanot, who served as the vice president of the AAA from 2015, lost to Surapong Ariyamongkol of Thailand for the lone post of the Asian body at its 23rd Congress here.
Ariyamongkol secured 25 votes while Bhanot, who also served as Secretary General of Athletics Federation of India for more than a decade, got 19 votes.
Dahlan Al-Hamad of Qatar was re-elected as the AAA president for another four-year term (2019-2023).
Bhanot was not allowed to contest IOA elections in 2014 by the International Olympic Committee after being jailed for some months in connection with the 2010 Commonwealth Games scandal, but there was no such bar on him to contest the AAA polls.
He is currently the chairman of Planning, Coaching, Monitoring and Implementation Committee.
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