John Coates re-elected President of the International Council of Arbitration For Sport

Australian John Coates is set to remain as ICAS President until 2018 ©Getty Images

Australia’s John Coates has been re-elected President of the International Council of Arbitration For Sport (ICAS) following their 43rd meeting in Lausanne.

The lawyer, the President of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, will now remain as ICAS President until 2018.

Coates has been a member of ICAS since the creation of the Council in 1994 and became its third President in 2010, when he succeeded Italy’s Mino Auletta in the role.

The meeting also saw the election of lawyers Michael Lenard of the United States and Slovenia’s Tjasa Andrée-Prosenc as the ICAS vice-presidents.

Lenard previously competed in handball at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics and has held the positions of vice-president of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and former vice-chairman of the USOC Athletes' Commission.

His fellow vice-president Andrée-Prosenc also has a wealth of experience as the former national champion in figure and roller skating is a Council member of the International Skating Union, an ISU judge, referee and technical delegate at the Olympics, in addition to being an Executive Board member of Slovenia’s National Olympic Committee.

The President and the vice-presidents will be joined on the ICAS board by Egypt’s Nabil Elaraby and Switzerland’s Corinne Schmidhauser, after they were elected as Presidents of the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) Ordinary Arbitration Division and Appeals Arbitration Division respectively.

Former Judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and former Foreign Minister of Egypt, Nabil Elaraby was elected as President of as Presidents of the Ordinary Arbitration Division — Former Judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and former Foreign Minister of Egypt, Nabil Elaraby,was elected as President of as Presidents of the Ordinary Arbitration Division ©Getty Images

Four-time Olympian Tricia Smith of Canada, vice-president of both the International Rowing Federation (FISA) and the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), was named as the Deputy President of Ordinary Arbitration Division.

Composed of 20 international lawyers from both the sports movement and from the arbitration world or international judiciary, the ICAS is responsible for facilitating the resolution of sports-related disputes through arbitration or mediation conducted by independent arbitrators.

The ICAS also manages the administration and finances of the CAS and sets up special CAS divisions during multi-sport events, such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, as well as the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championships.

The CAS boasts 330 arbitrators and 60 mediators from 90 different countries and registers more than 400 cases every year.

International Olympic Committee members Patrick Baumann of Switzerland and Richard Pound of Canada are among the current members of the ICAS, which also includes Scott Blackmun, Alexandra Brilliantova, Miguel Cardenal, Moya Dodd and Carole Malinvaud.

They are joined by Judges Ivo Eusebio, Ellen Gracie and Xue Hanqin, with the list of existing members completed by Justice Yvonne Mokgoro and Justice Wihelmina Thomassen.

Switzerland’s Matthieu Reeb is the current secretary general of the ICAS and CAS, with his role seeing him have responsibility for the management of the CAS Court Office based in Lausanne and its 25 employees.