STUTTGART: Each gold medal winner at the World Track and Field Championships in August will receive a Mercedes car, hut there will be no cash awards. IAAF president Primo Nebiolo said recently reports AP.
The chief of the International Armature Athletic Federation said the world governing body of the sport and the Stuttgart based Mercedes Benz car company recently signed a two year deal that includes giving cars to world champions.
The world championships are in Stuttgart from August 14 to 22. / Nebiolo said Mercedes will also give cars to gold medal winners at the 1995 World Championships in Goteborg.
Nebiolo, speaking at the end of a three day meeting of the JAAF council said the IAAF had been hoping for cash awards from Mercedes. But the German company said it could not afford cash bonuses at a time of recession.
The cars to be given out in Stuttgart will be the new C class models that will come on the market in June with a price tag of about 45,000 marks (S$ 28,000),
All multiple gold medalists will be able to collect as many cars as the number of titles they win.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 11, 1993
