21.10.2016
Morinari Watanabe (JPN), the current Secretary General of the Japan Gymnastics Association, was elected as the new FIG president and will begin in his new role beginning January 1, 2017.
Morinari Watanabe (JPN) was named as the next President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Wednesday after a landslide election victory at the FIG Congress in Tokyo.
Mr Watanabe, 57, currently Secretary General of the Japan Gymnastics Association and an FIG Executive Committee member, will take up his new position on January 1, 2017, succeeding Bruno Grandi (ITA), who has led the FIG for 20 years.
He will be the ninth President of the FIG, the oldest Olympic sports federation, founded in 1881.
