Five-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom, double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and multiple-time winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan have been amongst 10 eminent sportspersons elected unopposed as members of the IOA Athletes Commission within the polls held in New Delhi on Monday. The different seven members of the apex physique are Tokyo Olympics silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, 2012 Olympics bronze winner shooter Gagan Narang, veteran desk tennis participant Achanta Sharath Kamal, ace hockey participant Rani Rampal, bicycle owner Bhavani Devi, rower Bajrang Lal and former shot putter OP Karhana.

All the ten members, out of which 5 are feminine, are Olympians. Keshavan is the one Winter Olympian.

Only 10 candidates filed nominations for a similar variety of seats within the Athletes Commission and Umesh Sinha, who can also be the returning officer of the upcoming IOA elections, declared all of them elected unopposed.

India’s first particular person Olympic gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra and former India hockey workforce captain Sardar Singh will full the 12-member athletes fee of their capability as members of the corresponding our bodies of the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Council of Asia respectively. Both of them may have voting rights.

Bindra was appointed as member of IOC Athletes Commission in 2018 for a eight-year time period whereas Sardar was made OCA Athletes Committee member in 2019 for a four-year time period. Under the brand new structure of the Indian Olympic Association which was adopted on November 10, the athletes fee is to have equal illustration of female and male members.

Keshavan, who has represented India in six Winter Olympics, stated this was the primary full fledged athletes fee in IOA historical past.

“Yes, this is a historic moment for the athletes of the country. We now have a proper and full fledged athletes commission for the first time in IOA history,” Keshavan informed PTI.

Two members of the athlete fee — one male and one feminine — will sit on the IOA Executive Council, which shall be elected on December 10 on the orders of the Supreme Court.

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