Kanter was chosen by his fellow Commission members to serve another term as chairman after the vote, despite finishing sixth in the election at the European Athletes General Assembly in Dubrovnik.

The 42-year-old former world champion received 21 votes, the second-lowest of the six summer sport athletes chosen to serve on the EOC body.

He is set to serve as chairman until 2023, when his term will expire.

Russian figure skater Jonathan Guerreiro, a former world junior ice dance champion, was elected vice-chairman on a four-year term.

Guerreiro received 31 votes, the most among the winter sport candidates.

Double world taekwondo champion and Olympic bronze medallist Gwladys Épangue of France and Croatian high jump star Blanka Vlašić, a two-time world champion and Olympic medallist, finished joint top of the poll for summer athletes with 35 votes.

Britain's double Olympic triathlon gold medallist Alistair Brownlee was third on 29 votes, followed by Slovakian archer Alexandra Longova.

Greek Olympic sailing bronze medallist Pavlos Kagialis ended sixth of the summer candidates on 20 votes.

The new intake for the Athletes' Commission was completed by short track speed skater Viktor Knoch, a member of the Hungarian team which won the Olympic 5,000 metres relay title at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, on 11 votes.

The EOC Executive Committee will select the final two athletes to serve on the 10-member Commission.

A total of 17 candidates - 14 summer and three winter - stood in the election.

Among those who failed with their bids for re-election were Irish hockey player David Harte, who also missed out on a spot on the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission at Tokyo 2020.

Olympic rowing champion Anastasiya Kozhenkova of Ukraine, London 2012 women's modern pentathlon champion Laura Asadauskaitė of Lithuania and Belgian badminton player Yuhan Tan are some of the other notable names who were unsuccessful.

EOC President Spyros Capralos congratulated the new Athletes’ Commission members and called on them to be "the voice of your peers ensuring they remain at the heart of our discussions and decision-making processes".

"This includes working with us on the planning and implementation of the European Games, the continent’s leading multisport event," Capralos said.

"It means joining the fight against doping, championing gender equality in sport, and assisting with the transition from athletic to post-athletic careers.

"All of this requires your valuable expertise, your viewpoints, your say."