NEW DELHI: Five-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom, double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and multiple-time winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan are among 10 eminent sportspersons (five male, five female) elected unopposed as members of the Indian Olympic Association Athletes Commission in the polls held here on Monday.
The other seven members of the apex body are Tokyo Olympics Silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, 2012 Olympics Bronze winner shooter Gagan Narang, veteran table tennis player Achanta Sharath Kamal, ace hockey player Rani Rampal, cyclist Bhavani Devi, rower Bajrang Lal and former shot putter OP Karhana.
All the 10 members are Olympians. Keshavan is the only Winter Olympian.
India’s first individual Olympic Gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra and former India hockey team captain Sardar Singh will complete the 12-member athletes commission in their capacity as members of the corresponding bodies of the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Council of Asia respectively, PTI reports. Both of them will have voting rights.
Bindra was appointed as member of IOC Athletes Commission in 2018 for a eight-year term while Sardar was made OCA Athletes Committee member in 2019 for a four-year term. Under the new constitution of the IOA, which was adopted on November 10, the athletes commission is to have equal representation of male and female members.
Two members of the athlete commission — one male and one female — will sit at the IOA Executive Council, which will be elected on December 10 on the orders of the Supreme Court.
