Six positions will be available when voting takes place at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games later this year. 

Current chairperson Chelsey Gotell of Canada is among the six Athletes' Council members whose term is expiring, along with vice-chair and three-time Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley of Australia.

Britain's Dame Sarah Storey, Elvira Stinissen of The Netherlands, Turkey's Gizem Girismen and American Monica Bascio are the other athletes whose terms are due to expire.

Those four, along with Fearnley, would be eligible to seek re-election, but none are.

Each National Paralympic Committee can nominate one athlete for the panel.

The number of candidates on the ballot, 22, ties a record set at Rio 2016, and includes five nominees from the world of Para athletics.

Louzanne Coetzee from South Africa, Italy's two-time Paralympic champion Martina Caironi, Cuban Omara Durand Elias - five times a Paralympic gold medallist - Britain's three-time Paralympic club throw champion Stephen Miller and China's Yanzhang Wang, three times a Paralympic medallist, are all on the ballot.

So too are four swimmers - Daniel Dias from Brazil, Malta's Vladyslava Kravchenko, Joanna Mendak of Poland and Japan's Takayuki Suzuki.

Canadian judoka Tony Walby, Dutch wheelchair basketball player Jitske Visser, goalball player Tom Vanhove of Belgium, Australia's three-time Paralympic cycling champion Carol Cooke, Georgian wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani, German sitting volleyball player Michelle Schiffler, Hungarian paddler Katalin Eszter Varga and triathlete Susana Rodriguez Gacio of Spain are all on the ballot.

Two table tennis players - Alena Kanova of Slovakia and Lurii Nozdrunov, who is listed as an RPC candidate with Russia's name and flag banned form Tokyo 2020 - two African powerlifters and the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic or Paralympic gold medal complete the list.

Sherif Osman Khalifa of Egypt and Nigerian Lucy Ejike are the powerlifters, with back-to-back Paralympic archery champion Zahra Nemati joining them on the ballot.

To be eligible to stand, athletes must have competed at either London 2012 or Rio 2026 or be set to compete at Tokyo 2020.

The IPC Electoral Commission will be chaired by Mark Copeland, chairperson of the IPC Legal and Ethics Committee, and voting is due to take place between August 19 and September 3.

The outgoing Athletes' Council members had their terms extended following the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which delayed the election.