Christopher Samuda is the new president of the Jamaica Olympic Association………..he  defeated  Vishu Tolan  in the  election  last  evening  by  a  20  to  16  margin  to  replace  the  honorable  Mike  Fennell  who  served  in the  post  for  the  past  40  years.

Samuda’s  entire  slate  was  voted  in  to  serve    for  the  next  4  years at  the  election  at  the  offices of the Jamaica Olympic Association in Kingston .

Jamaica bobsleigh federation boss Chris stokes defeated President of the Jamaica Athletics Administration Association (JAAA) Dr. Warren Blake 25 to 11 for the post of first vice president while JAAA General Secretary Garth Gayle  turned back  former  swimming  association  head  Martin Lyn 29 to 7 for the 2nd vice-president  position.

Alan Beckford got the better of former netball Jamaica president Marva Bernard 28 to 8 for the secretary general post while long serving treasurer Compton Rodney lost 21-15 to Grace-Kennedy’s executive and Jamaica Badminton association president Nicole Case .

The new administration is also comprised of directors, Raymond Anderson, laurel smith, Robert Scott and Yvonne Kong .

The newly elected president spoke with Irie Fm sports after he was declared  the  winner.

The first order of business for the new executive is to prepare Jamaica’s team for the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas next month.