Two-time Olympic Champion British middle-distance runner, the President of the World Athletics (WA), Lord Sebastian Coe, and Professor Muhammad Lee Chee Pheng, CEO of the Asia College of Exercise Medicine in Malaysia have been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Senate of the Hungarian University of Sports Science.
At the Senate meeting held on Thursday, 28 September at the Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS), it was decided that an honorary doctorate will be awarded to the two-time Olympic Champion British middle-distance runner and President of the World Athletics (WA), Lord Sebastian Coe, and CEO of the Asia College of Exercise Medicine in Malaysia, Professor Muhammad Lee Chee Pheng.
Dr Lee Chee Pheng, who worked at HUSS earlier, also acts as the CEO of the International Scientific Committee on Exercise Medicine.
Coe won gold medals in the 1500 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. During his athletic career, he set a total of nine outdoor and three indoor world records in the middle distance.
Following Coe's retirement from athletics, he was a Conservative member of parliament from 1992 to 1997. Later he became chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). In August 2015, he was elected president of the IAAF (now World Athletics, WA).
Coe has close ties with the Hungarian University of Sports Science. During the World Athletics Championships held in Budapest in August this year, he made a short visit to the university, where he gave a 15-minute lecture on the responsibilities of coaches and the beauty and difficulties of the profession. Coe also visited the marble plaque with the names of the university's honorary doctors.
As known, HUSS lead by Rector Professor Tamás Sterbenz was heavily involved in the World Championships volunteer programme, and the university’s brand new facility in Csörsz Street served as one of the training venues for the World Championships.
An English language side event of the Global Athletics Coaching Academy (GACA) called Coaches Club also took place in the Assembly Hall of the university, and in addition, World Athletics (WA) hosted a significant international scientific conference at HUSS.
Since the foundation of the university in 1925, a total of 49 honorary doctorates have been awarded by the Hungarian University of Sports Science, including former Presidents of the International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch, Primo Nebiolo and Dr Jacques Rogge, Kenneth H. Cooper, a doctor of medicine who pioneered the benefits of doing aerobic exercise for maintaining and improving health and Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time, just to name a few.
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