Among the arbitrators appointed by ICAS, the governing body of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), is former Alpine skiing world champion Zali Steggall.

The Australian, winner of an Olympic slalom bronze medal at Nagano 1998, is now a barrister specialising in family and sports law.

She is joined, among others, by compatriots Robert Weber and Bruce Hodgkinson, while Germany have three representatives in Axel Heck, Sven Nagel and Norbert Wühler.

Canada’s Pierre Dalphond and Stephen Drymer also feature along with China’s Fan Mingchao and Li Zhi, France’s Didier Linotte and Alain Zahlan de Cayetti, Saudi Arabia’s Bandar Alhamidani and Majid Khuthaila and the United States’ Roger Abrams and Glenn Wong.

Completing the list is Ghana’s Richard Akpokavie, secretary general of the Ghana Olympic Committee, as well as Kuwait’s Rashid Al-Anezi, Qatar’s Salman A. Al-Ansari, Iran’s Parand Azizi, Switzerland’s Raphaëlle Favre-Schnyder, Belarus’ Siarhei Ilyich, Spain’s Carmen Nuñez-Lagos and Iceland’s Stefan Geir.

The two new mediators are Canada's David Bennett and Greece’s Konstantina Morou.

With immediate effect, the new members can be nominated to serve as arbitrator or mediator in CAS arbitrations or mediations.

CAS was created in 1984 to provide dispute resolution services to the sports world.

It has settled disputes for more than 30 years involving athletes, coaches, federations, sponsors, agents, clubs, leagues and organisers of sports events from almost every country in the world through arbitration and mediation procedures.

In 2016, CAS registered more than 600 arbitration procedures and 10 mediations, marking a record year.

"In line with the growth in the number of procedures conducted by the CAS each year and in order to allow a constant turnover of its lists, ICAS regularly reviews and increases its lists of arbitrators and mediators, focusing on geographic spread as well as on gender and knowledge of the sports world in order to achieve a balanced list of independent legal specialists equipped to meet the unique challenges of global sports arbitration and mediation," an ICAS statement said.