The former Moroccan Olympic champion, Nawal El Moutawakel, was re-elected as a member of the World Athletics Council, the international federation responsible for athletics, for a four-year term at the 54th Congress in Budapest.
El Moutawakel, the first Moroccan, Arab, African and Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, is one of 13 members elected in the Hungarian capital. , including Ugandan Beatrice…
Ayikoru. Member of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Ms. El Moutawakel has served on the World Athletics Council since 1995.
For his part, Britain’s Sebastian Coe was reappointed for a third and final four-year term as president of the World Athletics Federation. The sixty-something, who has held this position since 2015, was the only candidate for his own succession. His re-election comes two days before the start of the World Athletics Championships in the Hungarian capital.
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