IOC confirms Candidateship of Zöggeler for Athletes' Commission

Lausanne (RWH) Six winter sport athletes, among them Italy’s Armin Zöggeler, will stand for two places on the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission after their candidatures were officially confirmed now in Lausanne (SUI). 

Italian luge legend Armin Zöggeler, the double Olympic champion who had already declared his intention to stand, will go up against cross-country skiers Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen and Kikkan Randall, from Norway and the United States respectively, Spanish skeleton athlete Ander Mirambell, Finnish ice hockey player Emma Terho and Chinese speed skater Zhang Hong.

The election is due to take place during the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

The two elected members will replace outgoing chair Angela Ruggiero, the four-time Olympic ice hockey medallist, and Britain's skeleton athlete Adam Pengilly.