Chinese Olympic Committee vice president Yu Zaiqing was elected into the International Olympic Committee's executive board at the IOC 116th session Wednesday in Athens.

Yu Zaiqing, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from China, meets the press after he was elected into the IOC executive board at the IOC's 116th session in Athens, Greece, Aug.11, 2004.

Yu joined the board after beating Richard Carrion (Puerto Rico), Phillip Walter Coles (Australia), Mostafa Hashemi Taba (Iran) and Carlos Arthur Nuzman (Brazil).

The Chinese gained 62 votes against Carrion's 48 in the final round of the voting.

The four losers to Yu later vied for the sixth seat.

Carrion defeated the other candidates to make it to the IOC board.

Sergey Bubka of Ukraine, Denis Oswald of Switzerland, Ottavio Cingquanta of Italy and Mario Vazquez Rana of Mexico were earlier reelected into the executive board.