Nominations for the roles were sought last month and the governing body has now revealed the list of contenders.

It includes China's Bingyu Yang, a world champion in 2009 in Gangneung in South Korea and an Olympic bronze medallist from the Vancouver 2010 Games.

Scotland's David Murdoch, a double world champion who won Olympic silver for Britain at Sochi 2014, is also in the running alongside Sochi bronze medallist Viktor Kjell of Sweden, a world chamoion in 2013 in Victoria in Canada.

Two Canadian world champions, Cathy Overton-Clapham and Nolan Thiessen, have also been put forward for election.

Overton-Clapham won her world title on home ice in Vernon in 2008, while Thiessen was successful in 2010 in Cortina in Italy.

Other contenders are Wales' Adrian Meikle, China's Dexin Ba, Hungarians Dorottya Palancsa and Zsolt Kiss, Australians Kim Forge and Lynette Gill, South Korean Kim Soo Hyuk, Japan's Kosuke Morozumi, Scotland's Lee McCleary, Americans Patrick McDonald and Pete Fenson, New Zealand's Peter de Boer and Czech curler Marek Vydra.

The current members of the Commission, which was established in March 2013, are "Skip" Ann Swisshelm from the US, "Vice Skip" Cathrine Lindahl from Sweden and Kelly Scott from Canada.

Norway's Bent Ånund Ramsfjell, the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic gold medallist, is the WCF Board liaison.

The new elected members will take the Athlete Commission membership up to seven. 

Voting is now open with details sent to eligible athlete voters, with a closing date of October 18.

The Athlete Commission serves as an independent and a consultative body, and acts as a link between high performance athletes, the WCF Board, the WCF Competition and Rules Commission and the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission.

The primary goal of the WCF Athlete Commission is to "communicate the interests of the athletes in cooperative support of the WCF achieving its mission".