GENEVA (AP) — Ahead of the IOC’s first female president formally taking over next month, one of the few women leading an Olympic sport faces an election challenge.
The International Table Tennis Federation’s president since 2021, Petra Sörling, is in a May 27 contest against men from Qatar and Mauritania.
The vote in Doha after the world championships shapes to be between the Swedish incumbent and the host nation’s Khalil al-Mohannadi, a veteran of ITTF politics since 1997.
“He feels that he’s been so long in this sport he says he deserves to become the next president,” Sörling told reporters Thursday in an online call.