The 26-year-old won gold medals at the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London and the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.

She also won the gold medals at the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

Lasitskene was, however, denied the opportunity to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro because of the IAAF suspension on Russia following allegations of state-sponsored doping. 

At the time she was in the middle of a streak of 45 unbeaten competitions and her best that year of 2.00 metres would have won the Olympic gold medal. 

"We have long planned to create a Committee of athletes, and this idea was supported by WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) auditors during their last visit to Moscow," RUSADA deputy director general Margarita Pakhnotskaya told Russia's official state news agency TASS. 

"The Committee will be formed in the near future.

"I can say that our wonderful athlete Maria gave consent for her work."

RUSADA claimed the Committee’s main goal will be to promote the ideals and values of "pure sport" and help create an intolerant culture towards doping.

TASS report that active or retired athletes "with strong anti-doping position who are living example for the rest" can join the Committee.

"These are people who have shown that athletic achievements are possible without doping, these are athletes who actively promote values clean sports in their social networks," Pakhnotskaya said

Pakhnotskaya added it is important "to listen and hear the voices of athletes" to make anti-doping efforts more effective.

RUSADA regained their compliance with the WADA Code last year, after the organisation's Executive Committee controversially voted for their reinstatement at a meeting in the Seychelles last September.

There were widespread calls for RUSADA to be banned again in January, after a deadline to hand over crucial data from their Moscow Laboratory was missed.

WADA chose to maintain Russia's compliance, however, after eventually receiving the data 17 days late.

The Russian Olympic Committee has also returned from exile, as has the country’s Paralympic Committee, following the widespread doping scandal which first emerged in 2015.

The only Russian sporting body still facing sanctions is the All-Russian Athletics Federation, which remains banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), having so far refused to accept the findings of the WADA sanctioned McLaren Report, which claimed more than 1,000 Russian athletes were involved in a state-sponsored doping scheme between 2011 and 2015.

RUSADA, the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Paralympic Committee have also never accepted the report's findings.