The only candidate for his succession as president of the International Cycling Union, David Lappartient is guaranteed to obtain a third term in the election of next September.
He had decided not to run for another mandate at the head of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (it was ultimately the former Minister of Sports, the Olympic and Paralympic Games Amélie Oudéa-Castera who was elected) in order to devote himself to his function as president of the International Cycling Union. David Lappartient has been insured since Friday to stay four more years at the head of the body.
He is indeed the only candidate for his succession, for the presidential election to be held on September 25 in Kigali in Rwanda on the sidelines of the world championships. “With regard to the presidency, only David Lappartient, current president of the UCI,” submitted a candidacy for the function.
Under article 40 paragraph 3 of the statutes of the UCI, its election for a third term of four years will be confirmed without a vote, “wrote the body in a press release.
Two French presidents of international federations
Aged 52, David Lappartient is also president of the Morbihan Departmental Council (various right). Having become president of the French Cycling Federation in 2009 and then of the European Cycling Union in 2013, then vice-president of the UCI the same year, Breton was elected head of the UCI in 2017, beating the president in office, Brian Cookson, with 37 votes against 8. He was re-elected in 2021, already being the only candidate.
In parallel, he had decided last September to present himself to the presidency of the Olympic International Committee, since Thomas Bach did not stand out, but he finished fourth, far behind Kirsty Coventry, who was elected. To date, David Lappartient is one of the two French people at the head of an international federation of an Olympic sport, with Jean-Christophe Rolland (57), the former Olympic sailing champion, elected head of his federation in 2014.
