Sebastian Coe

Motivation

Leaadership

Teamwork

 

Lord Sebastian Coe OBE is one of Britain's greatest ever athletes. He also led the successful bid to bring the Olympic Games to London in 2012.

On the athletics track he has held world records at 800m, 1000m, 1500m and one mile and has held a total of twelve world records. The 800m record stood for 16 years and was only broken in August 1997.

He was awarded the OBE in 1991 and in 1979 was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He was also chosen as the Sports Writer's Sportsman of the Year in 1979,1980,1981 and 1984.

Sebastian Coe retired from athletics in 1990 and became a Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Cambourne in 1992. From 1994-96 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Roger Freeman, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and in 1995 he was PPS to Nicholas Soames, Armed Forces Minister. In 1996 he was appointed Government Whip, and in 1997 he became a member of the International Olympic Committee.

Sebastian Coe can look back on an athletics career of almost unparalleled achievement. He is a motivational speaker who can talk with immense authority both on individual and team success.

He is Chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. and he led the bid to host the Olympics in 2012. It was the same determination that had earlier helped him become one of the greatest athletes of his generation.

Alongside his Olympic responsibilities, Sebastian Coe is Vice President of the IAAF and sits on the committee bidding for England to host the World Cup in 2018. He was named the 'Greatest Briton' in the first Morgan Stanley Awards.