A South Korean and a Swede Are Elected to IOC Executive Committee

SEOUL — South Korea’s Kim Un Yong, who has been an International Olympic Committee member for less than two years, was elected Thursday to the 11-member executive committee.

Also elected in a secret ballot by 86 IOC members was Sweden’s Gunnar Ericsson.

Among the six candidates was Venezuela’s Flor Isava-Fonseca, who would have been the first woman on the powerful executive committee had she been elected.

Robert Helmick, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee and one of two American representatives on the IOC, withdrew his candidacy Tuesday night when it became apparent that he did not have enough support.

Kenya’s Juge Keba Mbaye was elected Thursday as one of the IOC’s three vice presidents. A fourth vice president will be elected at the 1989 IOC session in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The IOC was to vote later Thursday afternoon on whether to award the 1994 Winter Games to Sofia, Bulgaria; Oestersund, Sweden; Anchorage, Alaska, or Lillehammer, Norway.