Catherine Fettell has been elected to the Australian Olympic Committee's Executive ©Shooting Australia

Catherine Fettell has been elected to the Australian Olympic Committee's (AOC) Executive, filling the the casual vacancy left by Nicole Livingstone who stepped down in November.

Fettell, the President of Shooting Australia, was one of four nominations put forward to the AOC's Culture, Remuneration and Nominations Committee from national sport federations.

Recommendations were then made and passed onto the Executive for consideration.

"I'd like to thank the AOC for the opportunity," said Fettell, who competed internationally as a shooter for Australia and took on her first role as an administrator in 1992.

"I fully support the principles of the AOC. 

Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates welcomed the appointment ©Getty Images
Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates welcomed the appointment ©Getty Images

"I think we are very lucky as Australians to have sport as such a large aspect of our lives and the AOC plays a very big part in that.

"I'm genuinely looking forward to working as a part of the AOC team."

Fettell has served as Australia’s delegate to the International Shooting Sport Federation, as well as the Oceania and Commonwealth Shooting Federations.

"Catherine has worked with the Australian International Aid Agency for almost 40 years while also holding several high performance and administrator roles within her sport of shooting," said AOC President John Coates.

"This now means seven of our elected Executive members are current Presidents of national sport federations, clearly making us an Executive that is in touch with Australian sport.

"Along with this, Helen Brownlee and I are former Presidents of sports and vice president Ian Chesterman is a six-time Chef de Mission of the Australian Winter Olympic team and also the Chef de Mission for Tokyo 2020."