Cyclist Callum Skinner, who won a gold and silver medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, has been named on the Committee along with Paralympic powerlifter Ali Jawad, who won a silver medal at Rio 2016, and Andrew Heyes, a doctoral researcher and runner at the University of Birmingham.

The three openings on the Committee became available after it was announced that former Olympic sprinter Emily Freeman, bobsledder Henry Nwume and rugby league player Jon Wilkin would be stepping down from their roles on December 31.

The three new appointments will join rower Andrew Triggs Hodge, Para-canoe athlete Emma Wiggs and Beijing 2008 silver medal-winning cyclist Emma Pooley.

The UKAD Athlete Committee, which is chaired by former British Olympic rower Sarah Winkless, is designed to ensure that athletes' views are represented on matters related to doping in sport.

Following the appointment of the three new Committee members, Winkless said: "We received a great number of high calibre candidates for the roles on the Athlete Committee, which shows how important this topic is to our elite athletes.

"It also made it a very tough job to shortlist and then appoint.

"We chose Ali, Andrew and Callum as we were impressed by their breadth and diversity of knowledge, experience and commitment to clean sport.

"I believe each of them will bring something new and fresh to the Committee, complementing our current members, and this can only help UKAD in its mission to work more closely with athletes across all sports.

"I look forward to working with them so we can learn more about the athlete experience and how best to support them so they have all the right tools to practise the values of clean sport."

UKAD has recently made headlines in Britain due to high-profile cases involving boxer Tyson Fury and cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins.