Thomas Weikert has been confirmed in the office of President for a further four years by the 19th General Assembly of the German Olympic Sports Confederation.
The 61-year-old received 434 of the 438 votes from the delegates in Baden-Baden. Last year, Weikert followed Alfons Hörmann, who no longer competed after serious allegations in an anonymous letter (“Culture of Fear”).
Weikert was the only candidate for the highest honorary post in organized German sport. The lawyer from Limburg was President of the World Table Tennis Association ITTF until November 2021, before that he had led the German Table Tennis Association.