Kalkaba Malboum re-elected as President of Confederation of African Athletics - CAA

Cameroonian Hamad Kalkaba Malboum was re-elected for the fifth term as President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), at the end of its 28th CAA Elective Congress on Monday at the Golf Hotel Abidjan - Cocody in the Ivorian capital.

The election took place on the sidelines of the 2019 African U18 and U20 Athletics Championships, which will be officially opened on Tuesday, 16 April until 20 April.

Out of 54 countries, 51 were present at the meeting and took part in the secret ballot, while delegates from Angola, Chad and Sao Tome were absent.

They were two candidates in the running for CAA presidency - Tunisian Amara Khaled and outgoing president Hamad Kalkaba Malboum.

At the end of the ballot and after counting, President Kalkaba won a fifth term running until 2023 by 44 votes to 7 votes for his opponent Khaled.

Newly re-elected President Hamad Kalbaba congratulated his opponent afterwards for his spirit of fairplay. He also invited him to join him to work for African athletics.

"Amara Khaled is a long-time partner I met in Abidjan in 1999 while he was president of the North Region, we are athletic enthusiasts and we have just had a competition as our athletes does," said Kalkaba after the election.

"I thank him for the spirit that prevailed before this competition, it is this spirit that we must cultivate in Africa, without competition, there is no sport, the athletes compete, the leaders too, is the normal thing.

"I'm the winner today but nothing says you will not be the winner of tomorrow, we have to work hand in hand to advance athletics."

African athletics superstars and Ivorian sprinters Murielle Ahouré and Marie Josée Ta Lou were also present at the congress.


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