Moroccan Olympic champion Nawal El Moutawakel was elected Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday, on the second day of the Committee’s 142ᵉ session being held in Paris.
Nawal El Moutawakel was elected IOC Vice-President alongside Argentina’s Gerardo Werthein. Their mandate will begin on August 10, after the close of the 142ᵉ session of the International Olympic Committee, succeeding John Coates and Ser Miang Ng, according to a Committee press release.
The new vice-president of the International Olympic Committee was Moroccan champion in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter hurdles (1977-1978), Arab champion in the same events, African champion in the 400-meter hurdles (1983), US champion in this discipline (1984) and Olympic champion in the 400-meter hurdles at the XXIIIᵉ Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984.
She also won gold in the 400-meter hurdles at the Mediterranean Games in Casablanca (1983) and Damascus (1987), as well as bronze at the Universiades in Kobe (Japan, 1985) and gold in Zagreb (1987).
Nawal El Moutawakel, a member of the Moroccan National Olympic Committee, has extensive experience with the International Olympic Committee, where she was Vice-President from 2012 to 2016.
In addition to these two main positions, the International Olympic Committee elected two members to the Executive Board and eight Committee members, including four women.
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