Volunteers of the 2023 World Athletics Championships held in Budapest in August expressed their gratitude to World Athletics (WA) President Sebastian Coe and the new Hungarian permanent member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Dr Balázs Fürjes.

Two-time Olympic champion middle-distance runner, World Athletics President, Loughborough University Chancellor Lord Sebastian Coe was awarded the honorary doctorate title at the Hungarian University of Sports Science on 10 November.

The volunteers of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest were nominated for the International Fair Play Award by Balázs Fürjes, co-chair of the event's organising committee, together with Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics for their dedicated and persistent voluntary contribution.

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.