Richard Bowker announced as chair-elect for UK Athletics

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UK Athletics (UKA) has confirmed that Richard Bowker will succeed Ed Warner as chair of the national governing body in January 2018.

As Athletics Weekly reported earlier this year, Warner will step down from his position at the end of 2017.

Warner had taken up the role at the national governing body at the beginning of 2007 after former 5000m world record-holder David Moorcroft left his position as chief executive in January that year.

“We wanted to ensure the most orderly handover possible to the new chair. Particularly with the World Championships being in London the next year we wanted to give the next chair the chance to meet everybody from world athletics – both IPC and IAAF,” Warner told AW this summer.

Bowker is currently a non-executive director of London Marathon Events and is …

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