Nawal El Moutawakel

Nawal El Moutawakel

El Moutawakel in 2009
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Morocco
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles 400 m hurdles
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1983 Casablanca 400 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 1987 Latakia 400 m hurdles

Nawal El Moutawakel (Amazigh: ⵏⴰⵡⴰⵍ ⵍⵎⵓⵜⴰⵡⴰⵇⵇⵍ ; Arabic: نوال المتوكل; born 15 April 1962) is a Moroccan former hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and is the first Moroccan, Arab, African, and Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold.[1][2][3] In 2007, El Moutawakel was named the Minister of Sports in the upcoming cabinet of Morocco.

  1. ^ Billings, Andrew C. (2008). Olympic media. New York: Routledge. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-415-77250-1. Retrieved 20 March 2009. Taiwan Winter Olympics Boycott.
  2. ^ Nawal El Moutawakel Wise Muslim Women. Retrieved 9 April 2011
  3. ^ Benbachir, Simo (21 July 2019). "El Moutawakel… la championne qui trône sur le cœur des Marocains". Maroc Local et Nouvelles du Monde | Nouvelles juives du Maroc, dernières nouvelles (in French). Retrieved 17 February 2020.