June 11 (Reuters) - Liechtenstein's ⁠Alexander Ospelt beat incumbent Johan Eliasch ⁠by one vote on Thursday to ‌take over as president of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS).

Eliasch, a British-Swedish businessman seeking another ​four-year term at the helm ⁠as a candidate ⁠representing Georgia rather than Britain or Sweden,polled ⁠64 ‌votes to Ospelt's 65 with no abstentions at the FIS congress ⁠in Belgrade.

Some of the larger ski ​nations have ‌questioned FIS's spending priorities and the ⁠direction of ​the federation under Eliasch's leadership, with the president seeking to centralise the sport's commercial ⁠rights.

Eliasch, 64, will lose his ​membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a result of the vote.

He had stood ⁠as a candidate in the IOC presidential election won in March last year by Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry and he suggested ​in a concession speech, ⁠after congratulating Ospelt, that the Olympic body ​had sought to influence ‌the FIS vote.

Reuters has ​approached the IOC for comment.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)