new delhi legendary sprinter pt usha is all set to become the first woman president of the indian olympic association ioa in the sports bodys 95yearlong history usha fondly known as the payyoli express will also be the first olympian and an international medallist to head the national olympic committee which goes to polls on december 10 the 58yearold multiple asian games gold medallist emerged as the lone candidate to file her nomination for the ioa presidents post returning officer umesh sinha didnt receive any nominations on first two days of filing the papers on friday and saturday but 24 candidates applied for various officebearer posts on sundayusha who will be elected unopposed is also one of the eight sportspersons of outstanding merits soms who have been selected by the m c mary komled athletes commission toi had reported on sunday that usha will be filing her nomination for the ioas top post and she could well be the lone candidate in the fray presidentelect usha who had finished fourth in the 400m hurdles final at the 1984 olympics games was congratulated by several bharatiya janata party bjp politicians on twitter for her unopposed election including former union sports and current law minister kiren rijiju who wrote congratulations to legendary golden girl smt p t usha on being elected as the president of indian olympic association i also congratulate all the sporting heroes of our country on becoming the office bearers of the prestigious ioa nation is proud of them usha was nominated by the bjp to the rajya sabha in july this yearusha will be the first sportsperson to have played for the country at the highest level and also become the ioa chief since maharaja yadavindra singh who featured in a cricket test match in 1934 usha retired in 2000 after dominating the indian and asian athletics circle for close to two decadesshe won 11 asian games medals including four gold in a single edition at the 1986 seoul meet while clinching an astonishing 23 medals including 14 gold at the asian championships from 1983 to 1998 she had missed out on a bronze by the one hundredth of a second at the los angeles olympics finishing fourthtalking about the other ioa posts ajay patel chairman of gujarat state cooperative bank and ahmedabad district cooperative bank is set to be elected as the senior vicepresident being the lone candidate for the post he is the president of the gujarat state rifle association similarly indian weightlifting federation iwlf president sahdev yadav is set to be elected the new treasurer of the ioa with all india football federation aiff president kalyan chaubey as the male joint secretary there will be contents for the lone female joint secretarys post between alaknanda ashok shalini thakur chawla and suman kaushiklondon olympics bronze medallist shooter gagan narang one of the soms is the only candidate for the post of one male vice president two candidates rajlaxmi singh deo and alaknanda ashok have filed nominations