World Championships silver medallist Frederick Dacres will be vying for a seat on the athletes commission of the International Olympic Committee.
The 25 year old Dacres is on the list of 30 which was approved today by the IOC executive board for the elections which will take place next year during the Olympic games Tokyo 2020.
Nominated by their respective national Olympic committees together with their NOC Athletes’ Commissions, the 30 candidates will be contending for the four available positions.
The athletes elected by their peers during the Olympic games Tokyo 2020 will replace the current members, whose term of office will expire at the end of these games………….in addition, an appointed member of the commission, Stefan Holm of Sweden, will also end his term next year.
All athletes competing at Tokyo 2020 will be able to vote for their representatives at the athlete 365 space positioned at the entrance to the dining hall in the Olympic village, and also at other sites such as the football cities and the sailing venue.
The poll will be open from July 14………..the day the Olympic Village opens to August 4 2020.
The vote will be supervised and certified by an election committee, appointed by IOC president Thomas Bach.
National record holder Dacres competed at the Olympic Games in 2016 and was also a member of Jamaica’s team at the 2015, 2017
and 2019 World Championships.