Nawal El Moutawakel

Athletics and the Olympic movement, Morocco. El Moutawakel won the 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Olympics, becoming the first woman from an African or majority-Muslim country to win Olympic gold. She later served as Morocco's sports minister and, as an IOC member and vice-president, chaired the evaluation commissions that assessed the bids for the 2012 and 2016 Games, one of the IOC's most influential tasks.