Vucic with the representatives of World and European Athletic Federation: We want more international competitions in Serbia

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic received representatives of the World and European Athletics Federation today.

Recommended

Croat said from the Arena: My thanks to the Serbian audience, Belgrade rules!

The meeting was attended by the president of the World Association of Athletics Federations Sebastian Coe, the first vice president of the World Association of Athletics Federations Sergey Bubka, President of the European Athletics Federation Svein Arne Hansen, the first vice-president of the European Athletic Federation and President of the Association of Balkan Athletics Federation Dobromir Karamarinov, President of the Athletics Federation of Serbia Veselin Jevrosimovic and Director of Athletic Federation of Serbia Slobodan Brankovic.

Vucic expressed satisfaction that Serbia is hosting an international athletics competition for the first time after six decades, and stressed that we want to attract not only many competitors with such sporting events, but also a large number of tourists that visited our country on this occasion.

- We want to organize more international competitions to improve sports infrastructure in the country, increase capacity, provide much better conditions than others and become a leader in the region for the preparation of athletes - said Vucic.

The organization of the World Indoor Championships in Athletics in 2020 and the European Athletics Championships in the open in 2024 was discussed in the meeting, as well as on the construction of athletic stadium for the European Championship.

Representatives of Athletics Federation praised the organization of the competition, as well as a sports hall. They pointed out that no government has done so much for the promotion of sports and athletics, and they added that 10 athletic tracks and two sports halls were built in the past three years.

(Telegraf.co.uk)