By Nick Butler

Prince Feisal celebrating ten years as JOC Presdent shortly before his re-electionOctober 21 - Prince Feisal Al Hussein has been re-appointed to serve a third term as the President of the Jordan Olympic Committee (JOC) for the next four years following an election held in Al Hussein Sport City.

Feisal, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 2010, first took charge of the JOC in 2003 and his third term will be highlighted by Rio 2016.

Following his victory he expressed his desire to continue the progress that Jordanian sport has enjoyed during his tenure.

"I am looking forward to serving the Jordan sporting family again over the coming three years and continuing the excellent progress that has been made," he said.

"I urge all of our sporting federations to work hard to enable sport to play a key role in the lives of all Jordanians."

Feisal's election was held during the JOC General Assembly where 18 members were also appointed to the new Board following an intensive two month electoral process.

The new board of the Jordan Olympic Committee following the General Assembly including Prince FeisalThe new Board of the Jordan Olympic Committee following the General Assembly including Prince Feisal (front centre)






The Board consists of five distinguished members, including Feisal, as well as 10 members from sporting federations that compete at the Olympic Games,

The numbers were completed by two members from the non-Olympic sports squash and billiards in addition to two former Olympic athletes in Mohammed Abu Libdeh and Nadine Dwani.

The pair, both from the sport of taekwondo, have each competed in three Olympic Games and Dwani was the Jordanian flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony at London 2012.

The JOC was formed in 1957 and Jordanian athletes have attended every Games since Moscow in 1980.

Jordan has never officially won an Olympic medal, although they did secure two bronze medals in taekwondo at Seoul 1988 courtesy of Samer Kamal and Ihsan Abu Sheikha but only when the martial art was appearing as demonstration sport.

Jordan also sent its largest-ever delegation of ten athletes to London 2012, taking part in athletics, boxing, equestrian and swimming as well as taekwondo.

Feisal, who recently celebrated ten years in the role, has also done a lot of work to increase sporting opportunities at levels beyond merely elite ones.

He also serves on the IOC Women and Sport Commission and is President of the Jordan based, sporting organisation Generations for Peace.

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