Serbia's United World Wrestling President Nenad Lalovic has also been rubber-stamped as an Executive Board member during the IOC Session after being elected in a vote of Summer Olympic sports last month.

China's Yu Zaiqing was also re-elected for a second four-year term as vice-president, a period that will last until the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Kejval, President of the Czech Olympic Committee, was among nine individuals proposed for membership at the IOC Session in Lima in September.

An anonymous letter was sent to IOC President Thomas Bach, however, which claimed the former rower should not become a member because of allegations of corruption levelled against him.

It referred to redistribution of money from the Ministry of Youth and Sports to Czech sport, according to reports in the country.

Kejval denied the allegations.

The IOC ethics department has ruled he was not to blame and apparently found no evidence supporting the allegations.

He was voted on here by 73 votes to 11.

Sebastian Coe and Gianni Infantino, Presidents of the International Association of Athletics Federations and FIFA, were among those overlooked.

Turkey's IOC vice-president Uğur Erdener and Belgium's Paris 2024 Coordination Commission chief Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant, meanwhile, have each been switched from National Olympic Committee to individual member status. 

This means they are no longer subject to any term limits except age restrictions.

Lalovic was chosen by 69 votes to 14 today after defeating France's Jean-Christophe Rolland and Spain's Marisol Casado in the second round of an internal Association of Summer Olympic international Federations (ASOIF) vote.

The ASOIF position became vacant after C K Wu stepped down from the IOC Executive Board following his resignation as President of the International Boxing Association amid a protracted power struggle within the sport's governing body.

The Taiwanese official had been a member of the IOC Executive Board since 2012.