- Born
- Birth nameSebastian Newbold Coe
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Sebastian Coe is a British politician and former track and field athlete.
As a middle-distance runner, Coe won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 meters gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984. He set nine outdoor and three indoor world records in middle-distance track events - including, in 1979, setting three world records in the space of 41 days - and the world record he set in the 800 meters in 1981 remained unbroken until 1997.
Following Coe's retirement from athletics, he was a member of parliament for the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1997 for Falmouth in Cornwall, and became a Life Peer on 16 May 2000.
He headed the successful London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and became chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and re-elected for another four-year term in 2011. In August 2015, he was elected president of the IAAF.
In 2012, Coe was appointed Pro-Chancellor at Loughborough University where he had been an undergraduate, and is a member of the University's governing body. In November 2012, he was appointed chairman of the British Olympic Association.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bazza the Beast
- SpouseNicola McIrvine(1990 - present) (separated, 3 children)
- Champion British Olympic athlete turned Conservative politician.
- Was member of parliament for Falmouth and Cambourne.
- He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1982 Queen's Honours List and the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1990 Queen's Honours List for his services to sports.
- He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Sport as Chair of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Bid Team.
- He was awarded the CH (Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He was Chair of the L.O.C.O.G.
- If you lived in Sheffield and were called 'Sebastian', you had to learn to run fast at an early age.
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