Mary Kom, Sindhu, Mirabai, Keshavan elected in IOA Athletes’ Commission

Mary Kom, Sindhu, Mirabai, Keshavan elected in IOA Athletes’ Commission

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Category : Sports Published on: November 17 2022

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Olympic medallists MC Mary Kom, PV Sindhu, Mirabai Chanu and Gagan Narang were among 10 eminent sportspersons elected as members of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Athletes Commission
All the 10 elected members of the apex body, five men and as many women, won unopposed in the polls.
Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan, table tennis player Sharath Kamal, women’s hockey captain Rani Rampal, fencer Bhavani Devi, rower Bajrang Lal and former shot putter Om Prakash Singh Karhana are the other six members of the elected panel. All of them are Olympians.
Former World and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra and former hockey captain Sardara Singh will also be part of the athlete’s commission as ex-officio members, for being members of the athlete’s commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) respectively.

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