Matthew Pinsent, Great Britain’s four-time rowing gold medallist, has failed in his bid to keep his place on the IOC’s athletes’ commission.
Jan Zelezny, the javelin legend, had given up his place in 2001, to focus on his training, and Pinsent took possession on a temporary basis until this summer’s elections.
Pinsent, who clinched his fourth successive Games gold with James Cracknell, Steve Williams and Ed Coode in the men’s four race last Saturday, applied for re-election but missed out as Zelezny returned to the fold.
Athletes Frankie Fredericks and Hicham El Guerrouj and Egyptian swimmer Rania Elwani complete the quartet elected from 30 candidates in an Olympic Village poll.
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They will serve as IOC members for the next eight years, taking to 19 the number of sportsmen and women on the commission.
Fredericks is a four-time sprint silver medallist at the Games, having claimed second place at both the 100 metres and 200 metres in Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta in 1996.
Zelezny has won three Olympic gold medals in the javelin, and is going for a fourth in Athens.
El Guerrouj ended his long wait for a 1,500 metres gold earlier this week.
And Elwani competed in swimming at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics before taking up a number of high-profile political positions in domestic and international sports.
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Others to have applied included Estonian decathlete Erki Nool and Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris, who withdrew from the Athens Games in controversial circumstances after missing a drugs test the night before the opening ceremony.